Here are 6 ways a Strategic Family Therapist thinks about you when you show up.

What are they looking at and why?

We learned from a huge longitudinal study that there are 4 traits that children may display that are indicative of high intelligence and a hungry mind…

It was Dr. Murray Bowen (1913-1990) who first suggested that every human being is governed by the interplay of two counter weighing factors… the drive toward togetherness, attachment, and enmeshment… and the countervailing force toward individuality and differentiation.

“What doesn’t kill me will make me stronger…:

Not if you’re a little kiddo….

How long does a parental estrangement last? 5 years? 10 years? It’s the wrong question… here are the factors that may abbreviate a cutoff…

Estrangement from your mother is a relatively rare phenomena.

The research revealed that only 6% of adult children reported any levels of estrangement from their mothers.

So why does the research read like they all have the same mother?

There’s new research on the nature of estrangement between adult children and their parents… why is daddy so difficult?

New research indicates something incredible. Loving homes encourage longevity? Why?

Research has clearly shown for decades that family dinner time is a sacred space for intimate connection. But now families are struggling to experience family dinners as a regular event…why?

A self-absorbed parent is annoyed with the provisioning requirements that a child needs to thrive.

This ultimately results in the range of emotional and psychological difficulties for my now adult clients as they navigate their awareness of a toxic parental legacy :

dubious self-esteem, conflict avoidance, porous boundaries, and emotional guardrails made out of jello…