You walk in the door, hoping for ten quiet minutes.
The kids are already going at it.
Who drank more juice.
Whose stuffy was that.
He’s not looking at me nicely.
Your partner came home cranky and is yelling at everyone about the noise, about being touched, about the thing he asked for that didn’t get done right away.
The baby is crying.
The kids are still yelling.
You are at your limit.
You don’t know if you can live in this chaos anymore.
That isn’t true – I can promise you that.
The exhaustion is real.
That exhaustion makes sense given what you’ve been carrying.
There is hope.
You can not only want better, but also have better.
Hi, I’m Abby.
In family therapy, your family leads the conversation.
We focus on the details that actually need to be talked about, not the ones I think should come up.
Different ages need different things. I work with all of them.
A four-year-old can’t put into words a fight with an older brother.
A teenager doesn’t want to.
You and your partner need a different room from the one the kids do.
I use Internal Family Systems (IFS), play therapy, and sandtray.
Which one shows up depends on who’s in the room and what came up that week.
For the little ones, we play.
For the older ones, we talk.
For everyone, we work on:
Coping skills.
Healthy ways to express what they’re feeling.
Language that actually moves between rooms in your house.
You’ll learn what’s underneath the morning fight over juice.
You’ll learn which battle to skip and which one is worth holding.
When the baby is crying, and the kids are yelling, and your partner walks in cranky, you’ll have a move that isn’t a punishment, a lecture, or a closed door.
The 6 pm chaos loosens.
The kids still fight, because siblings fight.
But the fights end.
Somebody apologizes by bedtime.
Your partner comes home, and the door doesn’t feel like a starting gun.
You sit on the couch at 8 pm, and the volume in your house matches the volume in your head.
Your family can start to heal.
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There's a version of your life where your child feels safe in their own skin. Where dinner is just dinner. Where 2 am is for sleeping. That version starts with a conversation.
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Abby