We help your family communicate and understand each other
Family relationships can be complex and challenging. Even when people are from the same family, people have different ways of communicating, beliefs, and life experiences that affect their relationships with other family members. It’s not always easy to manage these differences while still respecting and listening to everyone’s wants and needs.
Sometimes, even within close-knit families, it’s difficult to see where lines of communication are becoming disconnected. Families face challenges every day, including limited time spent together, substance abuse, relationship conflicts, divorce, parenting difficulties, and external pressures and expectations. Family counseling can help families come together to overcome their difficulties with dignity and compassion.
At My Denver Therapy, we work with families throughout the Denver area, including Cherry Creek, Highlands Ranch, Castle Rock, Greenwood Village, and more. Our Denver family therapists provide families with a safe place to speak, listen, and communicate with each other. They also have a trained therapist there to observe their relationships and show a family how they’re communicating with and affecting each other, both positively and negatively.
During each therapy session, we make sure that all family members feel heard, seen, and understood as active participants in creating new, improved family dynamics and communication to move forward. When working with families, we focus on the entire family, not just one person, event, or situation. We do this to repair and improve all relationships within a family, instead of assuming a single person or issue is creating all of the family’s problems.
When you’re ready for your family to seek therapy, our therapists are here to help open lines of communication, rebuilt relationships, and help work on the issues that are unique to your family.
Benefits of family therapy
Shared understanding
Learn how to create healthy boundaries and understand your family dynamics.
Improved communication
Develop skills to communicate with each other effectively.
Empathy
Understand what other people are in your family are going through and care for everyone’s experience.
Learn how to solve problems
Reduce conflict and learn skills to resolve issues when they come up.
Rebuild trust
Whether it’s healing relationships or creating a space where family members can be honest with each other, you can create a supportive, trusting environment.
Forgiveness
Families may have a hard time forgiving each other or moving past negative experiences that brought them to therapy. By creating a more healthy environment, family members can learn to forgive each other.
Do we need family counseling?
Wondering if counseling is right for you and your family? When a family member has an issue that affects their life or impacts the lives of other family members, it might be time to consider seeking help through family therapy. Without the support of a professional therapist, family members may be creating more issues with an individual or their family.
Not all family members need to participate in sessions. Sometimes, only a subset of family members attend. Sessions can include all family members, just those who want to participate, or we can set up individual therapy sessions as well. We create treatment plans to be appropriate to your family’s needs. We also offer Christian counseling for families, including families with varying or different levels of faith.
Family therapy has been successful with helping families improve a wide range of problems, including:
- Substance abuse or mental health issues that affect the whole family.
- Relationship issues between siblings, parents and children, or other family members.
- Sibling and family conflicts
- Relationships with teens and adolescents
- Different parenting styles and issues
- Behavioral issues related to school, work, or activities. Changes in family dynamics, including divorce, marriage, custody issues, and more.
- Counseling for substance abuse and alcohol addiction
- Life transitions and changes
- Marital issues, including financial issues, between parents.
What we do
We help your family identify issues, work through them, understand family dynamics, and create safe, strong, healthy bonds. We help your family discover its strengths, both as a whole and as individuals, create safe, strong connections between family members.
We provide a safe environment where every family member can share what they’re going through in ways that respect each person’s individual emotional needs.
Here are some of the ways that we help your family communicate and move forward to a place of understanding and strong relationships:
- Teach communication skills to build understanding, improve connections, and bring families closer together.
- Use your family’s natural strengths to solve and improve issues.
- Set goals to accomplish on both an individual and family level.
- Improve relationships between children, other family members, or spouses.
- Share tools to resolve problems and handle changes when they come up.
- Identify where conflicts are coming from and how to resolve them.
- Build up family members’ confidence and autonomy to actively work on issues.
Family therapy focus
Here are some of the things that we focus on in family therapy:
- Setting goals that you want to accomplish with your family
- Your family’s roles and behaviors to help identify things that create conflicts.
- How your family expresses their feelings and solves problems
- Your family’s strengths and weaknesses to help resolve problems as they come up
- Practical application of things discussed in therapy
- Creating a sense of responsibility for problems when they come up
- The family and the therapist set goals they hope to accomplish together.
- In some cases, we also do one-on-one therapy with individual family members if they want to share something individually with us.
Other Specialties
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Meet our Denver therapists
My Denver Therapy is one of the largest woman-owned therapy private practices in Colorado with many of the best, most requested therapists in Denver.
As a therapist-owned practice with decades of combined experience, we care about seeing our clients heal, grow, and thrive. We’re one of the only therapy practices in Colorado with licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, social workers, and psychiatric nurse practitioners who actively see new clients. Whether you’re an adult, teen, young adult, couple, or family, our inclusive therapist team is built to specialize in you.
Our practice started with one therapist in a shared office suite, but we’ve grown to help thousands of people in Colorado by providing in-person therapy at our conveniently located Denver Metro area counseling offices in Denver, Greenwood Village, and Lone Tree, plus online therapy for clients throughout Colorado. Because of the way our team works, our therapists provide consultation for other therapists and private practices in the Denver Metro area.
Our inclusive therapists provide some of the most innovative, effective, and in-demand forms of therapy available today, including EMDR, Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, CBT, and IFS. We also have more therapists trained in Ketamine-assisted therapy and more teen therapists and young adult counselors than nearly every other private practice in Denver.
We know that clients want to find the best therapists in Denver, so our team includes therapists with different backgrounds, specialities, and experiences to help you find the right fit. We’ll match you with one of our therapists who is the best for your goals, location, budget, and schedule to help you get started quickly.
We’re out of network for insurance, Tricare, and are unable to take Medicaid, but most of our therapists’ rates are lower than the local and national averages for therapy.
All of our therapists take a client-focused approach to counseling and approach each session with a commitment to your progress and growth.
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Please note: We’re unable to accept Medicaid or insurance.
Our rates are listed on our website. MDMA and Psilocybin-assisted therapy aren’t available yet. We are out of network for all types of insurance, including TRICARE.