Janette Brown, MA, LMFT (info-link)                                                                                                                                           600 1st Ave. N.E. Seattle, WA. 98104 (206) 524-3645

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Couples or Family Therapy



With intimate relationship the focus, there may be fine-tuning or bigger changes you want to make. Couples or family therapy, which combine listening & reflective skill with more active assessment & intervention methods by the therapist, will help. These sessions offer opportunity for balance and fairness that sometimes is hard to achieve on your own, creating a more relaxed mood that encourages insight and promotes more authenticity with one another.


Some of what to expect:

• Questions about what each experiences and what you have already tried, independently or together, to improve things
• Reflections that help in viewing your partner or loved one(s) expansively, making new thinking & different responses possible
• Exercises and resources that will strengthen your abilities to optimize your relationship(s)

Your partner or family members may or may not be as ready as you to work on communication or interpersonal patterns; but they may respond to non-threatening ways of inviting their participation in sessions. Regardless, improvements in relating can be made through joint, or through individual sessions that adopt an interpersonal focus, since changes in one person's behavior necessitate new responses from the other(s). __ This is a fundamental couples & family therapy concept.

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