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Family Therapy in Montclair, NJ
Effective Tools for Children and Families to Cope with Divorce and Other Challenges

Are you struggling with challenges within your family? Are your children struggling to adjust to a blended family after your remarriage? Do you need guidance helping your children (or yourself) cope with the loss of a family member? Are you unsure how to deal with your child’s behavioral problems, at home or at school? Are you overwhelmed by the emotions that come with the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s in a parent or loved one? You don’t have to struggle alone. We can help.

Emotionally Focused Therapy - EFT for Families and Children

We use Emotionally Focused Therapy to help parents and children deal with all the challenges that come with family life, including:

• Coping with divorce, remarriage, step-families and blended families
• Experiencing and working through grief after the loss of a parent, spouse, child or sibling
• Dealing with so-called “empty nest syndrome”
  
• having adult children return to live at home after divorce, substance recovery, or other problems
• Infertility issues
• Emotional challenges related to adoption (both for adoptive parents and adopted children)
• School issues for children, from academic performance to behavioral problems to bullying or cutting classes
• Behavioral problems for children, including self-confidence and self-esteem issues, eating disorders and attention deficit disorders
• Depression and panic

We understand that there may be times where you don’t feel that your family is in crisis, but you need guidance on some issue, from custody or remarriage to death, illness or separation. We can arrange consultations on an as-needed basis to help you develop effective strategies to facilitate the emotional health of your family.

Family Therapy and Marriage Counseling,  
You don’t have to go through a divorce in isolation

Ending a marriage or life partnership is never easy. Often, couples come to therapy needing help navigating the practical and emotional terrain of what it means to separate “a joined life” into two distinct lives. We can help you transition during this very stressful life change in many areas:

• Making collaborative decisions on custody, visitation, living arrangements
• Creating a plan to “tell” and “transition” your children to divided time and new homes / schools, etc.
• Providing co-parenting support coaching throughout the process

• Assisting you in coping with being newly single
• Navigating families and in-law stressors
• Helping you access resources beyond counseling