Family Therapy

Family Therapy is a longer-term intervention than Family Mediation whose goal is to resolve a discrete topic or address a specific issue or goal. Family Therapy may help the parents tell their growing children the stories of their childhoods, the highlights and mistakes, the deprivations. The parents can be helped to explain their reasons and goals for their parenting approaches. The whole family may weigh in on consequences of behaviors for either children or parents, consequences which given the current realities of THIS, and not a past family, make the most logical sense. Family Therapy helps to deal with current communication, trust, limit-setting issues and helps to heal old wounds long since set in concrete.

Through a multi-generational family geneogram or map, everyone in the family can see how issues of giftedness, poverty, mental illness, alcoholism, medical illness, bi-lingual speaking or keeping the original language away from the children, effects the current family. Everyone in the family has the opportunity to contribute the ways in which they would like to see the family operate according to principles of maximum love, caring, and functionality.

Janet Miller Wiseman, principal and owner, who works with several Certified Divorce and Financial Analysts, is an original co-founder of The Negotiation Collaborative in 1979 and the co-founder of the Mass Council on Family Mediation in 1982, an organization which provides high-level, bi-monthly continuing education to its members. Janet is a two-year past President of MCFM, the designee of the John Adams Fiske Award for Excellence in Mediation in 1982, and the original Director of Public Relations. Janet has thirty-nine years of experience in suggesting and co-crafting cost-effective, thoroughly researched, genuinely creative alternatives for settlement, not simply legalistic formulas.