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What We Believe
Many approaches to therapy focus on a single person’s early experience, personality structure, or diagnosed symptoms. We believe that people and problems involve more than a person’s history, personality type, or diagnostic condition. Rather, people, problems and solutions are located in a current context in which family, friendships, work and school, gender, race and ethnicity, or sexual orientation may be important factors. Assessment and therapy are most useful if they attend to the fullness of people’s lives, and consider the present as well as the past.
The family in Center for the Family does not mean that we only treat people living with relatives. It means that we think of people in terms of the important people, past and present, in their lives.
These days family means:
- two-parent headed households
- divorced or remarried families
- adoptive, and other non-biological families
- extended family
- committed couples
- single parent families
In this sense, everyone has grown up with a family and most people seek to create or maintain some kind of new family.
Ann Arbor Center for the Family
2300 Washtenaw, Suite 203, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
(734) 995-5181
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