Providing health and healing for relationships
in the Greater Boston area

 

Our Therapists

Therapists at South Shore Family have years of experience providing quality couple and family therapy to relationships in need of hope and comfort. Meet our team:

Supervision

Therapists at South Shore Family provide individual and group supervision for therapists seeking licensure and wanting to learn more about couples and family therapy:

Forms of Therapy

Our therapists will provide assistance through couples, family, and individual therapy, with goals of reducing anxiety, improving self-worth, and increasing effective communication.

Relationship Classes

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The Boston Center for Relationship Education provides workshops that help you learn skills to communicate more effectively with loved ones. For more information, click below:

Group Therapies

South Shore Family offers a number of group meetings around common interests and issues, with goals of improving trust and developing positive relationships.

Schedule an Appointment

You can schedule an appointment by clicking Book Online at the top of the page, when you visit our therapists' bio pages, or by clicking on the following link:

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When Humor Doesn't Work
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When Humor Doesn't Work
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Humor doesn't work in relationships when it is critical or blaming, when it avoids important conversations, attacks other people, is inappropriately timed, and when it is self-effacing. Read more about how these styles of humor hurt your relationship.

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When Humor Works
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When Humor Works
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Keep track of the times that you and your partner laugh together about something this week. Let your partner know that you appreciated the moment of shared laughter.

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Adult Children and their Parents
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Adult Children and their Parents
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Problems with families primarily happen because family members get stuck transitioning between developmental stages. As young adults, we want so badly for our parents to see us in the current developmental stage we're in, but our desire to prove to our parents that we're capable of adulting keeps us stuck in ongoing negative interactions.

South Shore Family is launching the Boston Center for Relationship Education this summer, where we provide workshops around building healthier relationships. Check out "After You've Left the Roost: How to Improve Communication Between Parents and Adult Children" on July 19

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Honesty
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Honesty
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Relationships have honesty whenever partners are able to accurately describe their own feelings in a non-judgmental way and speak openly about their needs.

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Fidelity
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Jeremiah Gibson South Shore Family Health Collaborative
Fidelity
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Jeremiah Gibson South Shore Family Health Collaborative

We know the word infidelity, which has become synonymous with "sexual external relationship". But what does fidelity actually mean? Fidelity seems to come from the Latin verb "fidere", which means to trust. The word confide means to trust in or trust with. Fidelity represents one's ability to create and stick to the agreements within a relationship.

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Jeremiah Gibson South Shore Family Health Collaborative
A Man's Reluctance for Proposal
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A Man's Reluctance for Proposal
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Proposing marriage is a reluctant behavior out of context with current economic, sexual, and technological realities.

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Moving Past Silence
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Simply being heard and understood goes a long way toward regaining intimacy. Our job in relationships is to relate, which means validating our partner’s perspective and doing our best to understand it.

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Silent Intimacy Killers
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Stephen Duclos reflects on four silent intimacy killers--unseen symptoms that negatively impact a relationship: anxiety, resentment, absence of touch, and feeling responsibility for things that aren't your responsibility.

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Sexual Wisdom
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Sexually wise people seem to be less concerned with frequency of sex and perceived sexual competence and more interested in the planning of and conversations about sex.

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Desire Discrepancy
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Jeremiah Gibson South Shore Family Health Collaborative
Desire Discrepancy
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Jeremiah Gibson South Shore Family Health Collaborative

In every couple, there is a desire discrepancy, with one person in the relationship wanting either more frequent or more adventurous sex. When that gap between distancer and pursuer is wide enough, then this constitutes a kind of ongoing disagreement that can end a relationship.

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Jeremiah Gibson South Shore Family Health Collaborative