Counseling Services
Individual Counseling and Psychotherapy
Our licensed Marriage and Family Therapists provide individual counseling services for adults and children. People ask us to help when things like depression and anxiety get in the way of a happy life. Therapy can help us to grow and change as people, when we find their are parts of ourselves that we'd like to change. Therapy also helps when people we love are causing us pain. And sometimes people reach out and they aren't exactly sure what's wrong, but they want help to better understand themselves, those around them, and their choices.
Counseling for Working Professionals
Most of our clients are highly functioning working professionals. Employees of Apple, Google, Nvidia and other technology companies find that psychotherapy offers the opportunity to vent frustrations, assess what old patterns are at play, and provides insight to understand how change can be found in the present. Some of our clients arrive with a clear understanding that an issue like anxiety is impacting them; other clients come in with goals of personal and professional development. Often times our people have achieved great sucess professionally, and they wan to recalibrate to include a greater focus on personal and family happiness.
Juggling Full-Time Work and Being a Connected Parent
While living and working in Silicon Valley provides opportunities unlike anywhere else in the world, our lives also come with great challenges when it comes to being parents who are actively connected and related to our children. The demands of work can be draining, and our children are not always easy to be with. Counseling can help adults and children make sense of feelings and help improve choices that promote well-being.
Making time for therapy may seem daunting, but our video conferencing services and our ability to meet in the evenings provides parents with a place to think, feel, and take action on the road to showing up in our children's lives as we see most appropriate. Our children are only young temporarily; don't delay in fnding the right tools to help you be the parent you'd most like to be.
Let's find the best options for you
Let's start with a phone call to determine what would be most helpful for you at this moment. Below are some of the issues clients seek help with. We look forward to speaking with you.
ways a therapist can help
Working Professionals Work with Us
Couples often say that they wish they had called earlier
Couples often say that they wish they had called earlier
We provide therapy for busy working professionals who want to invest in their relationships and themselves. Our clients work at large corporations or work for themselves, and they turn to Family Matters Counseling for highly skilled, highly trained, and highly respected professionals. Individual adults meet with us for individual sessions
We provide therapy for busy working professionals who want to invest in their relationships and themselves. Our clients work at large corporations or work for themselves, and they turn to Family Matters Counseling for highly skilled, highly trained, and highly respected professionals. Individual adults meet with us for individual sessions in-person and online. Our reputation in the community is that we are all experienced, licensed therapists with excellent training and results.
Couples often say that they wish they had called earlier
Couples often say that they wish they had called earlier
Couples often say that they wish they had called earlier
Our clinicians help individual adults when they are contemplating, moving through, or grieving the end of important relationships. Meeting with a therapist to discuss the end or the potential end of a relationship is one of the most common reasons for meeting with a therapist. Relationships are important, complicated, and endings tend to bring up lots of related issues.
Marital Doubt and Discernment
Couples often say that they wish they had called earlier
Marital Doubt and Discernment
Are you in a couple where at least one of you is not sure about staying in this relationship? Discernment counseling may be for you and is offered by Elanah Kutik, LMFT. It can feel challenging when one partner is unsure that they want to stay in the relationship and doesn't think couples therapy can help. Accepting ambivalence in a relat
Are you in a couple where at least one of you is not sure about staying in this relationship? Discernment counseling may be for you and is offered by Elanah Kutik, LMFT. It can feel challenging when one partner is unsure that they want to stay in the relationship and doesn't think couples therapy can help. Accepting ambivalence in a relationship rather than trying to avoid it is a way to explore these feelings.
Isolation and Loneliness
I like my family -- why is this so hard?
Parenting Children through Stresses
One of the consequences of social distancing is that many in our community find themselves feeling isolated and alone. Loneliness and depression can follow. A psychotherapist might help identify how parts of this experience might teach us about our own psychology-- from past experiences, making the best of this time, and choosing how to would like to move forward with healthier relationships.
Parenting Children through Stresses
I like my family -- why is this so hard?
Parenting Children through Stresses
More than most other things, parenting can remind us of our shortcomings and struggles. It isn't always clear how to balance complicated dynamics between children and adults. Having a therapist list and sort through your choices and feelings with you can make all the difference.
I like my family -- why is this so hard?
I like my family -- why is this so hard?
I like my family -- why is this so hard?
"My family is so important to me, but we are stuck at home and really getting on each other's nerves." This father is not alone -- many families are struggling with how to stay positive and pleasant under these stressful circumstances. Talking with a therapist can help you navigate these trying times.
Coping with Major Health Issues, Grief and Loss
Coping with Major Health Issues, Grief and Loss
Coping with Major Health Issues, Grief and Loss
Significant health issues, whether coronavirus, cancer, or other long-term health conditions, bring challenges for the ill and the caregiver. We have therapists on staff with experience to assist those facing illnesses as well as the care providers who face their own challenges and difficulties.
Counseling for Men
Coping with Major Health Issues, Grief and Loss
Coping with Major Health Issues, Grief and Loss
While it can take longer for men to initiate counseling, they tend to have dramatic successes in accomplishing their goals for personal growth. Our procedures provides the space to process and explore their values, experiences, and relationships. We can set concrete goals to measure progress and find the appropriate time to finish our work.
Burn Out - Provider Role
Coping with Major Health Issues, Grief and Loss
Burn Out - Provider Role
Between the pandemic the kept us apart and social media that lends towards more shallow interactions, adults may find themselves in a bit of a loneliness crisis. Therapy can help adults understand themselves, their internal process, and find new ways to live lives the way they want.
Outside Events Impact Our Daily Lives
A time of increased awareness of ethic and gender identity
Events in the past year helped raise awareness for many of us about the suffering of our neighbors. From the impact of police abuses of power, the importance of protecting and respecting all ethnic identities, to a growing awareness and acceptance of various expressions of gender: our understanding of our world must expand. The therapists at Family Matters care about how these issues impact you and your loved ones.
Our hearts and minds heal with others
The human heart and mind evolved to value our thoughts, feelings and relationships. Neurobiology suggests that our brains work through trauma and stress best through a supportive relationship with another human being. Therapy can provide a stable, supportive, confidential way to work through current stresses and prior traumas. Counseling sessions provide a way to process difficult experiences, and long-term psychotherapy offers a way to change ingrained patterns, beliefs and behaviors. Your therapist might help you work through those challenges these stresses bring up.
The Benefits of Telepsychology
Many people are finding good reasons to meet at times in person and at times through video conferencing. Here are some of the benefits of utilizing these "telehealth" methods:
- No commute time to our office
- Not a problem when traveling out of town
- You can use your personal home/ office work space
- Some clients find they can type notes while meeting over the computer
- You do not need to live in Santa Clara Valley to be able to meet with our staff
- You can work with a therapist in another geographic area.
Potential Downsides of Telehealth
There are also limitations. Meeting online instead of in-person is not for everyone in every circumstance. Some issues are best addressed in the same room as the therapist. Parts of how we communicate can be lost over a voice call or a video transmission. You need to make sure you are in a private setting where you will not be interrupted. We invite you to call or email us to see if a counseling appointment over video or a phone call would be appropriate for you.