As your counselor, I will facilitate an atmosphere of warmth, support, and trust, in which you may choose to examine and change the pattrens or behaviors that are not working for you. A major goal of our counseling or consulting relationship will be that you have the opportunity to (a) choose new behaviors or patterns, and (b) receive therapeutic support in putting them to work. In general marriage and family therapy is often about looking at the patterns of interaction (systems), and how they are working (or not) as desired in your marital and family relationships.For that reason, marriage and family therapy is often described having a systemic approach, even though many of the changes come about through cognitive behavioral therapy within that systemic framework..
