Austin Family Counseling

Regardless of the relationship between you and your family, urgent issues can be raised at a moment’s notice. Addressing those issues immediately can help you and your family come together.

My Austin family counseling services can accommodate you on tight notice and provide you with the tools to tackle urgent issues when they arise. Don’t take too much time letting divisions grow -- reach out to us today.

Reaching a consensus between parents and children can feel like speaking two different languages. For parents, their children’s concerns can often feel opaque and difficult to determine.

I can help family units of all ages bridge the communication gap, beginning with parents. If you are hoping to open communication between you and your children, I can help you get there with my experience and a desire to see you and your children grow closer.

More importantly, learning to listen to your kids provides you with skills you can take out of our Austin family counseling appointments to overcome everyday challenges and conflicts.

Not only do I work to help parents understand their children, but I also specifically target helping your kids learn the importance of consequences for their actions.

Sometimes connecting action and reaction in a child’s mind can be difficult, so we work to help them understand their decisions in a supportive environment. Those skills will not only help your family grow together, but will also help your child grow into a successful, thoughtful adult.

Along with establishing lines of communication, I work to establish the bond of accountability between parents and children. I help families understand that their actions affect one another and that living together means working together.

If you feel your children don’t think about you or your relationship, then establishing accountability can be an important step to healthy growth.

Building on the concepts of teaching children to understand consequences and be accountable to their parents, it’s important to promote responsibility.

As is the case with accountability, children and teens need extra guidance to take responsibility for their words and decisions. My Austin Christian family counseling services can help discover that vital connection for your child, and can help them take charge of their spiritual growth and relationships.

With all of that focus on children, sometimes parents need coaching in the best ways to speak to their children without being overbearing. “Lecturing” kids can have the adverse effect of making them not want to pursue open communication with your family as a whole.

I will teach parents the steps to listen to their children with the goal of encouraging them to speak openly, rather than fearing criticism. If a child feels they can speak to you without fear of repercussion, then your relationship can flourish.

More importantly, allowing a child to discover the value of openly communicating can help parents enforce the tools learned in counseling in a supportive way.