Family Therapy Chicago
Family therapy for the relationships that shape you most.
Family relationships carry the longest histories and the deepest grooves. Therapy can help you understand the dynamics you grew up inside, and choose how you want to participate in them now.
In person in Chicago · Online throughout Illinois
I work with families, parents, adult siblings, adult children and their parents who are caught in patterns that keep producing the same painful outcomes.
Family work is especially powerful for cultural and generational differences, intercultural relationships, and estrangement or reconciliation. As an Iraqi-American therapist who grew up between cultures, I bring real fluency with first-generation, immigrant, and multicultural family experiences.
Common concerns
What I help families work through.
- Parent-child and parent-teen conflict
- Adult family relationships
- Estrangement and reconciliation
- Family communication breakdowns
- Cultural and generational differences
- Intercultural and immigrant family dynamics
- Major family transitions and grief
- Recovery and family roles around substance use
What therapy looks like
I tailor therapy to your own learning history and needs
Family sessions are usually 50 minutes. Sometimes we work with the whole family; sometimes with specific dyads; sometimes I'll see family members individually as part of the work.
I'll help slow the conversations down, surface what each person actually means underneath their reactions, and help the family practice new ways of being together.
My approach
I use The ACT Crucible.
I use ACT, DBT, and The ACT Crucible into family work. This combination supports each person in staying connected to themselves (differentiation) while staying emotionally engaged with the rest of the system which is exactly what most family conflicts are missing.
Serving Chicago & Illinois
In person in Chicago, online across Illinois.
I provide family therapy and family counseling in person in Chicago and online for families anywhere in Illinois and Michigan. Online sessions are especially helpful for families spread across cities and for adult children doing family work with parents who live elsewhere.
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Starting therapy is not easy
Therapy is a big investment in your life. I take this responsibility seriously, and I would be honored to be your fellow traveler on your journey to live more fully and meaningfully.
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