Family Focus Counseling
Therapeutic Support for your Relational Needs
"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity." - Epicurus
Megan Harrison, LMFT
I am committed to helping you develop the relational skills and strategies needed to build and maintain positive, meaningful, and healthy relationships. I truly believe in finding what inspires you and using this to guide the process of healing and healthy living. The decision to address painful experiences with support from a therapist is one of courage and together we can move toward healing and healthy living, supporting you toward embracing challenges and adversities.
Services
Family Therapy
Family Systems Therapy can help individuals resolve issues within the context of their family units. Understanding self in relation to others helps to provide a great understanding of how your behavior and engagement impacts your relationships. Much of our personality and how we see ourselves in relation to others begins in early life and stems from relations within the family of origin, or where you grew up.
Child and Adult-Child Parenting Support
Whether working through parenting a young child with behavioral issues or addressing adult-child parenting conflicts, eliciting support from a trained therapist can help to provide greater understanding and awareness of behavior and perspective that contribute to perpetual conflict. Supporting children with behavioral issues as a result from mental health, disabilities, trauma, and other issues can feel overwhelming.
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy is a collaborative process between you and the therapist. The therapist can help to guide toward identifying what inspires a person and can help you move toward change and an improved quality of life. The support of a therapist can help the individual to overcome obstacles to their well-being by providing support that expands the current level of awareness
Treatment Modalities
Psychodynamic
This form of therapy focuses on self-exploration and allows the person to examine inner conflicts in a way that leads to reduction in distress and improves one's relationships and often other aspects of life. This process pulls from various forms of therapy’s that can link past experiences with current feelings allowing for self-exploration and awareness of pattens of reenactment in their current relationships.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy involves challenging the negative and irrational thoughts that lead to dysfunctional behaviors and perpetuate distress. This form of therapy helps individuals gain skills to intervene on negative, automatic thought patterns and respond in increasingly adaptive ways. CBT is empirically proven as an effective form of treatment for depression, anxiety, eating disorders and other conditions.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is designed to support mood stabilization and for those who would like to change patterns of behavior in response to distressing emotions. This form of therapy has proven effective or treating severe mood dysregulation, self-harm, suicidal ideation, disordered eating and substance abuse. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy can help increase awareness around emotional vibrations, thoughts, urges and behaviors in response to those emotions. This also allows the therapist to support the individual with integrating healthier coping mechanisms overall leading to improved mood and relationships.