Restore happiness in your household.
Does your family feel disconnected, overwhelmed, or stuck in patterns that do not help you? You deserve thoughtful, experienced, knowledgeable support from care providers you can count on. At Capital Crescent Collective, you will find caring therapists who have been specifically trained to help families thrive. We recognize how the needs of every member of your family intertwine, and create opportunities for you to reconnect and share support with your loved ones.
Our family therapists work with families of many ages, structures, and backgrounds who are motivated to make positive life changes, improve interpersonal relationships, and promote emotional well-being within the family system. Experienced in navigating complex family dynamics, we explore how past relationships and cycles of behavior impact your present family life. We provide problem-solving methods and skill-building exercises you can call upon in family life outside of the therapy room.
Your family is welcome and thought of here.
Every family is unique, and you deserve better than one-size-fits-all family therapy. Your family therapy should match your family’s needs, values, goals, and realities. Family therapists at Capital Crescent Collective are trained in a variety of modalities to be able to adapt to your family’s style of healing and growth. We take pride in being prepared to hear and understand your stories, knowing that they are informed by your family’s structure, identities and relationship styles, culture, history, and neurotypes.
Your family might already have to manage finding separate resources for your children, teenagers, adults, and grandparents, whether it be for medical care, leisure, or learning. When you find a practice that you can trust, it is both a convenience and a relief for other family members to receive care as well. At Capital Crescent Collective, we believe in supporting your entire family. Our team is excited to provide individual, family, and couple therapy for many of your family stages in one place, whether you are preparing for marriage, navigating infertility, graduating a child from elementary to middle school, reorienting to having adult children, or adjusting to retirement. The power of being a collective also means we are prepared to assist you in connecting with many other care providers and resources so that you no longer need to search alone.
Life in the DC area comes with unique challenges, needs, and resources. Our therapists understand how busy your schedule is, are tuned in to the local changes affecting your family’s availability and stress, and have experience supporting families who commute or have high travel jobs. To make family therapy more available to you, we are committed to having evening and weekend appointment options and are proud to provide telehealth services. Whether you need to log in from separate places, cannot build in time to commute to a therapy office, or just prefer the comfort of your own home after your work and activities have taken you from Maryland to Virginia and back again, it is our pleasure to meet you where you are using our virtual platform.
We are here to help you confront whatever you’re facing. Our specialties include:
- Family care work. Caregiving in families can extend in many directions and necessarily changes throughout life. When abilities change, resources shift, or family members age, how we organize this care makes all the difference in sustaining our relationships and our health. Our therapists will sit with you in the difficult feelings that come with such significant changes and support you in creating roles, responsibilities, and boundaries that foster more sustainability and respect for everyone.
- Family conflict. Conflict is a natural part of every relationship and is how families face what is not or no longer working, but without support this natural process can go on without resolution, leaving family members feeling hurt, stuck, and disconnected. Whether your conflicts are stemming from changing roles and responsibilities as family members grow up or enter new phases of life, difficulty understanding one another’s needs and values, hardships experienced by one or many family members that have created uncomfortable feelings you are not sure how to support, or stress from outside your family wearing on your relationships, our therapists are passionate about helping you transform those conflicts into moments of connection and growth.
- Supporting mixed neurotype families. Because of years of misinformation and lack of access to resources and supports for diverse minds, it is easy for family members to miss one another’s communication and emotional health needs. This can lead to conflicts and distance after ruptures in understanding. Family therapy can be a place to learn about one another’s neurotypes and the implications they have for communication, routines, managing environments, and expressing care so that you can help each other feel supported, valued, and understood.
- Supporting culturally diverse families. Both family relationships and healing journeys are informed by our heritage, culture, stories, values, and realities. While no family nor family member will have the exact same experiences, our therapists are committed to hearing your perspectives, honoring your knowledge, holding space for difficult conversations, and bridging understanding between you and your loved ones. With services available in Spanish, Korean, and Greek, we are proud to welcome you and your family to our practice.
- LGBTQ couple and family issues. Every member of your family has had a unique journey understanding what gender, sexuality, and relationships mean to you. Parts of these journeys may have been guided by curiosity and pride, while others may have been guided by confusion, pain, and a need for safety. Our therapists recognize that reimagining identity and creating safety and affirmation is a process, and we would be honored to meet each of you where you are, create shared and compassionate understanding of what informs each of your journeys, and build moments of connection, validation, and support for each and every one of you.
- Stress arising from medical conditions and chronic illnesses. Changing relationships with our bodies and abilities, difficult experiences with the medical system, and overall increased stress impact not just one person adjusting to chronic illness, but everyone who cares about that person. Family therapy can give you an opportunity together to recognize which past ways of connecting, caring, and communicating no longer work the same way, relearn how you think about bodies and their needs, and build confidence advocating together for quality care.
- Trauma and abuse recovery. Traumatic experiences and the ways that we remember them do not exist in a vacuum. Some traumatic events are experienced together by multiple family members, and others change how family members interpret one another and give and receive care. While making sense of your story and how you have been attempting to stay safe through individual therapy can be powerfully healing and important, sharing our stories and needs with loved ones can transform our relationships to enhance connection and care. Our therapists are trained in a variety of healing modalities and have unique expertise in centering the impact of trauma on your relationships so that you can heal together.
Request a consultation today to learn more about getting started in family therapy with Capital Crescent Collective in Bethesda, MD. Family harmony is within your reach.