Family relationships and parenting

Is this you

• Your parents or in-laws are in decisions that should be yours.
• There is a subject the whole family avoids and everyone knows it.
• Your child has reached a stage nobody prepared you for.
• You are parenting your children and your parents in the same year.
• Everyone is polite and nothing is honest.

What we work on

• Boundaries with parents and in-laws: where they are, and how to hold them without a rupture.
• The conversation the family has been avoiding, prepared for properly and then had.
• Parenting decisions you are making alone, thought through with someone neutral.
• Ageing parents, adult children, and who is carrying what.
• What this family is actually for, agreed rather than assumed.

What the engagement is

• A set arc of sessions, some individual and some joint, depending on who needs to be in the room.
• A fuller assessment before the first session.
• Work between sessions, and direct feedback in them.
• Private-pay, and finite rather than open-ended.

Where a family carries layered trauma we refer it out rather than take the engagement. See coaching or therapy, which one do you need.