Home » Treatment » Family Systems Family-Systems Therapy Home  Individual & Group Therapy  Family Systems Therapy  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy DBT Therapy  Equine Assisted Therapy  Motivational Interviewing When a young woman begins to make significant personal changes--even positive ones--it's not unusual for her family to be thrown into a form of disequilibrium that can impede those changes. Our family-therapy program provides assistance for parents and siblings, equipping them to support, rather than impede, positive change. By using the most current family-systems therapies (based on The Bowen Theory), our students and their families have a safe place to learn, grow, and support one another during a challenging but hopeful time. Working with emerging adults presents unique challenges within the family system. Our students are often firmly entrenched in an unhealthy parent/child dynamic that does not serve them as they transition into adulthood. We work with both the student and her parents to shift this dynamic to a more functional adult to parent relationship. Families visit Fulshear periodically for in-person family and equine therapy; these robust family-therapy intensives may be complemented by weekly family telephone sessions with our clinical staff.

Rewiring Neurons in Young Women with PTSD Therapists can help this neural "reprogramming" along by creating a safe, affirming, supportive context in which the young-adult trauma victim can explore past events but have a different emotional experience when they do this exploration. This helps the young woman re-experience previously traumatizing experiences without feeling overwhelmed emotionally. A Parallel Process for Treating Parent/Child PTSD It can be so difficult for a parent to process their child’s trauma that they may unwittingly minimize and deny the severity of the situation—it’s just too much to take in. When this is the case, parents may miss the forest for the trees, i.e. they may unintentionally ignore the underlying trauma in favor of a myopic, but perhaps less disturbing, focus on acting out behaviors that are merely symptomatic of the trauma. Their daughter's distance, anger, anxiety, and situational avoidance may distract the parent from the painful cause of these symptoms. Parenting and Family Life: Volunteering While many teens initially view community service as an unwelcome chore, it becomes a highlight for many students over the course of treatment. View All Current Topics First Name Last Name Email Phone Daughter's Age I am interested in a: Private Consultation Fulshear Brochure Other (see comments) Comments