Marriage and Family Therapy
From the AAMFT national organization website (2024): Marriage and family therapists treat a wide range of serious clinical problems including: depression, marital problems, anxiety, individual psychological problems, and child-parent problems.
Research indicates that marriage and family therapy is as effective, and in some cases more effective than standard and/or individual treatments for many mental health problems such as: adult schizophrenia, affective (mood) disorders, adult alcoholism and drug abuse, children's conduct disorders, adolescent drug abuse, anorexia in young adult women, childhood autism, chronic physical illness in adults and children, and marital distress and conflict.
Marriage and family therapists regularly practice short-term therapy; 12 sessions on average. Nearly 65.6% of the cases are completed within 20 sessions, 87.9% within 50 sessions. Marital/couples therapy (11.5 sessions) and family therapy (9 sessions) both require less time than the average individuated treatment (13 sessions). About half of the treatment provided by marriage and family therapists is one-on-one with the other half divided between marital/couple and family therapy, or a combination of treatments.
Since 1970 there has been a 50-fold increase in the number of marriage and family therapists. At any given time they are treating over 1.8 million people.
Individual
50-minute teletherapy session. Call for rate.
- Includes Detailed Professional/Therapeutic Assessment of Presenting Concern(s).
- Process-Oriented Focus on What Happens.
- Collaboration on Establishment of a Transformative Therapeutic Goal.
- Exploration of the Risks and Impediments for Achieving Goal.
- Theory-Based Interventions Tailored to Facilitating Goal and Sustaining Change.
- Theory-Based Treatment Plan.
- In-Session Progress Check-ins.
- Research of Current Case Literature.
- Summary of Therapeutic Progress at Closing.
- 15-minute Between-Session Voice Consult.
- 5-hour Response Time.
Couple/Relational
60-minute teletherapy couple session. Call for rate.
- Home-Based Available for Additional Cost.
- Includes Detailed Professional/Therapeutic Assessment of Presenting Concern.
- Includes Genogram Assessment Detailing Quality of Relationships.
- Process-Oriented Focus on What Happens.
- Collaboration on Establishment of a Transformative Therapeutic Goal.
- Exploration of Risks and Impediments for Achieving Goal.
- Includes Depiction of Interaction Sequence.
- Theory-Based Treatment Plan.
- Research of Current Case Literature.
- Summary of Therapeutic Progress at Closing.
- 15-minute Between-Session Voice Consult.
- 5-hour Response Time.
Family
90-minute in-person sessions. Up to 8 family members. Call for rate.
- Home-Based Available for Additional Cost
- Includes Detailed Professional/Therapeutic Assessment of Presenting Concern
- Includes Genogram Assessment Detailing Quality of Relationships
- Process-Oriented Focus on What Happens
- Collaboration on Establishment of a Transformative Therapeutic Goal
- Exploration of Risks and Impediments for Achieving Goal.
- Experiential Exercises.
- Six-Sessions Brief Therapy Approach.
- Structural Family Map Detailing Boundaries.
- Research of Current Case Literature.
- Theory-based Treatment Plan.
- Summary of Therapeutic Progress at Closing.
- 15-minute Between-Session Voice Consults.
- 5-hour Response Time.