Family Therapy Family therapy focuses on the family group, rather than an individual. A session of family therapy brings together all or several members of a family with a therapist who works to help them better understand how they tend to react to one another and what roles they typically play within the family group. The therapist strives to help participants work through resentments, anger, and other negative patterns and to get in touch with their positive feelings about being a part of this family. In family therapy, members have the opportunity to learn more productive ways to communicate with one another. Co-director Martha Bramhall, LICSW, head of the Asclepeion Center’s counseling services, is a highly experienced family therapist. She holds a degree in Social Work from the Catholic University of America and has had extensive post-graduate training in couples counseling, family therapy, Gestalt, Imago, and mind/body therapies. She uses structural family therapy techniques as the basis for her family work. Martha’s specialty lies in combining Body Mind Healing techniques with the theory base and skills of traditional “talk” psychotherapy, while also bringing to the work an understanding of the spiritual growth dimensions of healing. BACK TO TOP