Family Counseling

At Karima Mental Health Services, we integrate multiple evidence-based and holistic frameworks to support families in finding balance and connection:

• Adlerian Family Therapy – emphasizes encouragement, shared goals, and family belonging while exploring how patterns of interaction shape relationships.
• Bowen Family Systems Theory – helps families understand intergenerational patterns, emotional roles, and how each member’s functioning impacts the whole system.
• Attachment-Based Perspective – as attachment-oriented clinicians, we value the parent–child bond and strongly encourage parental involvement in sessions. Parents play a central role in fostering security, emotional attunement, and long-term healing.
• Neuroscience & Neurophysiological Framework – we help families understand behavior not just on an emotional level, but also through the lens of brain functioning, nervous system regulation, and the body–mind connection. This approach provides practical insight into why behaviors occur and how change can be supported both emotionally and physiologically.
• Culturally Sensitive Approach – recognizes and honors the unique cultural, ethnic, and social contexts that shape family life and values.
• Trauma-Informed Practices – ensure safety, trust, and empowerment by acknowledging the impact of trauma on family dynamics.
• Faith-Based Integration – for families who desire it, we respectfully incorporate spiritual values and beliefs into the healing process.
• Systems and Parts Work – draws from Internal Family Systems and related models to explore the “parts” within each individual and how they interact in the broader family system.