For Families
As a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Susan Martinez, MA, LMFT has specialized training and experience to help families experiencing a wide range of emotional and relationship issues that arise from issues such as stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, parenting, adoption, marriage, infertility and more. Family Therapy and family counseling can help you improve relationships, communication, parenting skills, and child behavior, reduce conflict, alleviate depression and anxiety, manage stress, heal emotional pain and distress, and promote personal growth. Susan has professional education and training in many family therapy and family counseling therapeutic approaches (e.g. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Family Systems, Narrative, Structural, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Strategic, Bowenian, Solution Oriented, Brief Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy) that are generally brief and solution focused. As a family counselor, she draws upon this training to use an eclectic family counseling approach to nurture change and development within families. Parents are the guides in the family. In family therapy, she works to help parents in a way that strengthens the family bond and improves relationships and emotional well being for all family members. If you are seeking a family therapist, family counselor or parent consultant, she can provide guidance and support and bring mindfulness to your parenting.
Many times, families are brought to therapy by a child who has some sort of emotional or behavioral concern. Family Therapists, are specially trained to assess and intervene in family dynamics to promote healthy attachment and relationships. Susan often works as a parent consultant to parents to help parents help their children. Typically for families with young children, the sessions are with the parents only. For families with school age children the sessions are often split or alternated between parent sessions and child sessions with family sessions as needed. For families with teens the sessions are typically individual sessions for the teen with occasional parent/family sessions as needed. The younger the child, the more Susan works with the parent(s). The older the child, the more the child is involved in counseling. Susan can discuss what course of action will be most beneficial for your particular situation.
Susan enjoys counseling parents with infants, toddlers, children, and teens. Each stage of development brings new joys and challenges to parenting! Susan has two children of her own and understands the roller coaster ride of parenting. You can not only survive parenthood, you can thrive in it.
Many times, families are brought to therapy by a child who has some sort of emotional or behavioral concern. Family Therapists, are specially trained to assess and intervene in family dynamics to promote healthy attachment and relationships. Susan often works as a parent consultant to parents to help parents help their children. Typically for families with young children, the sessions are with the parents only. For families with school age children the sessions are often split or alternated between parent sessions and child sessions with family sessions as needed. For families with teens the sessions are typically individual sessions for the teen with occasional parent/family sessions as needed. The younger the child, the more Susan works with the parent(s). The older the child, the more the child is involved in counseling. Susan can discuss what course of action will be most beneficial for your particular situation.
Susan enjoys counseling parents with infants, toddlers, children, and teens. Each stage of development brings new joys and challenges to parenting! Susan has two children of her own and understands the roller coaster ride of parenting. You can not only survive parenthood, you can thrive in it.
Especially for New Parents
The Postpartum period and childbearing years are full of change and can be a challenging stage in the family life cycle. New parents often find they are having difficulty calming their colicky baby or are confused about conflicting advice from books, family, and friends. Marriage problems are often magnified during the perinatal period and throughout the childbearing years. New mothers sometimes experience the baby blues or postpartum depression or postpartum anxiety. Postpartum counseling is designed to promote attachment with your child and prevent or treat postpartum depression for mothers of infants during the first year. Infants are welcome in counseling sessions. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Happiest Baby Educator who has specialized education and experience with postpartum adjustment issues and early childhood development, Susan is well qualified to help new families with both the relationship and emotional issues as well as provide practical help with parenting your newborn; including teaching you how to use the 5 S’s to calm your baby when they begin crying and help them sleep better. This helps to prevent and treat post partum depression, anxiety, marital distress, child abuse and promote secure attachment and bonding. Happiest Baby on the Block classes are currently available in the form of private sessions. Office visits, house calls and hospital visits are available for Postpartum therapy and Postpartum counseling sessions as well as for help with colicky babies using the Happiest Baby on the Block calming methods and attachment parenting.
Susan Martinez, MA, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in Colleyville family therapy and Colleyville family counseling for parents with children of all ages from infancy through the teen years. Colleyville postpartum counseling and Colleyville postpartum therapy is now offered by Susan Martinez, MA, LMFT. Therapy can help postpartum depression and other post partum mood disorders. Colleyville Family Therapy and Colleyville Family counseling can help parenting and parents. Susan offers Colleyville postpartum counseling and Colleyville postpartum therapy for Colleyville postpartum depression.