by Amy Discepolo, LMHC | Feb 8, 2022 | Family Counseling
Today’s blog post will examine treatment of psychosis using EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a therapeutic intervention for trauma that follows an eight-phase, three-pronged protocol. EMDR reprocesses past disturbances, present events and...
by Amy Discepolo, LMHC | Jan 27, 2022 | Family Counseling
Today’s blog post will take a look at the six stages of the family life cycle. It is helpful to conceive of family as a system that will go through various predictable stages comprised of tasks and responsibilities. Problems may arise when families don’t...
by Amy Discepolo, LMHC | Jan 18, 2022 | Family Counseling
Our previous blog post looked at the impact of chronic illness on a family system, along with important features to be addressed by a medical family therapist. A family therapist, or an EMDR therapist may also explore how family dynamics change when a chronic illness...
by Amy Discepolo, LMHC | Jan 10, 2022 | Family Counseling
Today’s blog post will be the first part of a two-part series on chronic illness within the family system. We will look at how chronic illness in a family member can impact the family as a whole; the characteristics of chronic illness and how medical family...
