Resolving complex issues that affect the entire family. Relationships • Divorce • Addiction • Trauma • Assessments • Family Mediation • Parenting Coordination
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Healthy relationships are a source of joy and comfort. They provide a sense of safety and connection with partners, family and friends. They can even help people live longer, healthier lives. But all too often, relationships can be jeopardized by a variety of stressful factors including finances, power imbalances, other well-intentioned family members and hidden issues from one another’s past.
Separation and divorce can be life-changing events with effects that ripple through the whole family. Whether the relationship involved is a legal marriage, common law marriage, or domestic partnership, the process of dissolving that connection brings with it a long list of potential financial, legal, and emotional issues.
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Addictions can take many forms. Abusing substances such as alcohol, street drugs, and prescription medications can cause lasting damage to lives, relationships, and health. These substances affect the brain’s pathways of pleasure and reward, and create a pattern of craving and compulsion that drives addictions.
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Trauma is an emotional response to an extraordinary and shocking experience that falls outside the realm of normal life. This kind of event, or even a series of events, can affect the ability to cope, leading to feelings of fear, horror, or helplessness. Because trauma affects a person’s sense of safety, it can lead to long-term emotional distress, constant feelings of danger, or a sense of numbness and disconnect from daily life.
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Resolving family issues can be difficult. Although mediation is most commonly associated with divorce, a range of other stressful family situations can strain relationships, such as child custody, eldercare, alimony, trusts, and division of assets. Family mediation can be a constructive way to resolve these and other family-related issues.
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Highly-charged emotions and unresolved conflicts can persist for years after a divorce or break-up. These emotions and conflicts often become the focus, and when children are involved their needs can become diminished. Parenting coordination is a way to maintain the focus on the children by protecting and sustaining safe, healthy and meaningful parent-child relationships. Parenting coordination provides a child-focused process for developing and implementing parenting plans for parents who are experiencing a high level of conflict. Parents are assisted with a timely and efficient resolution of disputes that focus solely on the needs of the children. Parenting coordinators monitor parenting plan compliance and quickly resolve conflicts that involve the children.
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A psychological assessment is often the first step in the therapeutic process. Dr. Lehman offers a range of comprehensive psychological assessments that can provide clarity around the issues with which you or members of your family are struggling. Based on your specific needs, Dr. Lehman will determine the psychological assessment instruments that are best suited for you.
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Clients from all walks of life seek services from The Family Psychologist regarding relationships, divorce, addiction, trauma and family mediation. See what people are saying about their experiences.
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