Family Counseling for Adults in Austin, TX

By Sylvia Beligotti, MA

Do you feel like your in-laws play too big a role in your marriage? Does it feel like they are putting their nose in where it does not belong? Marriage should be between two people without feeling like your in-laws are interfering in your communication, connection, or plans for the future.

As a parent, you want to find ways to connect with your children. A natural connection grows as you accompany your child through the stages of childhood and toward adolescence. However, you may eventually reach a point where many parents struggle to connect with their child: the teenage years!

As a parent, you want to be there to guide your child through every obstacle. However, it isn’t always easy to know how to be there for your child. If you are a parent of an LGBTQIA+ child, you may be particularly unsure about how to guide them.

As parents, we want to do our best to raise healthy, emotionally balanced, and resilient people. We imagine that we’ll support them well and, in time, create a solid, loving relationship that will serve as a foundation for their future successes. That’s the goal.

As the parent of a child with intellectual disabilities, you’ve experienced ups and downs.

Your child has likely taken the forefront of the concern in the family.

The holidays are here and we may need some strategies to help us through at times.

Why? Because right on the heels of the warm, cozy seasonal feelings come performance anxiety, overblown expectations, and… people.

The next six weeks will likely be packed full of interacting, engaging, giving, partying, visiting, and hosting friends and family.