
Working With Patterns in Family Therapy: An Example From My Work as a Family Therapist in Boulder
I want to discuss here how a hurtful circular pattern in a family that I have been working with as their family therapist (I’m a family therapist in Boulder) can be worked with. Some of the details were changed to protect clients’ confidentiality. The father contacted me to help his son with depression. The son is a college student whose academic performance is suffering from his emotional state. The academic requirements, together with the lower functioning, cause the son