Reunification Therapy & Court Involved Therapeutic Services
"Trauma that happened through relationship can only be healed in relationship"- Dr. Karin Purvis
Most people find themselves on this page because there has been a disruption to their family and they have been trying to find resolution for a long time. Courts might be involved and there are multiple parties involved which can further complicate an already complicated situation.
Healing from relationship-based trauma requires the development and maintenance of healthy, supportive relationships. Trauma itself is rooted in broken trust and dynamics of those relationships. By building new, healthy connections and working through the trauma in the context of those relationships, individuals can begin to rebuild their sense of safety, trust, and well-being.
Reunification Therapy
Reunification Therapy is appropriate when there are therapeutic barriers to maintaining physical or emotional safety.
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This may be a perceived/felt safety or an actual safety concern expressed by child or parent or observed by the clinician.
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Read more about Reunification Therapy and if this fits what type of service you are seeking here.
Therapeutic Supervised Visitation
Therapeutic Supervised Visitation is appropriate when there are therapeutic skills to learn and practice demonstrated to have not been unsuccessful in the past, but a willingness and understanding of the parent for why the skills are needed and felt safety has been established for the child.
Read more about Therapeutic Supervised Visitation here.
*Please note, visitation services are not covered by insurance carriers and visitation cannot be billed as family therapy*
Co-Parenting and Family Therapy with High-Conflict and Court Involved Families
Family Therapy is appropriate when there are therapeutic needs for processing issues within familial relationships or there is a need to strengthen or reinforce connection, but there are not barriers to engaging in skills by parent or child.
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In this model, there is also an understanding by the parent for why skills and connection need to be strengthened, and the child has demonstrated felt safety for engaging with parent within and outside of therapeutic space.
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Read more about High-Conflict Family Therapy here.
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Though the child and parent may engage with clinician in individual sessions, all individuals in the family system are encouraged and may be required to have an additional individual provider. Individual providers strengthen personal skills needed in order for any of these processes to be successful and aid in a more comprehensive and supported means of accomplishing the goals of the relational work.
In all of these models, children are never required to remain in the same space as a caregiver during a session. Children’s voice and choice will be respected.
These services are considered “relational work” and are often not covered by insurance. If you believe your insurance carrier will cover your services and would like us to submit them, we will need the following:
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You have an individual provider who has diagnosed you with a recognized mental health disorder
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You have obtained a letter from that therapist that reunification or family work is beneficial to the mental health treatment goals they have written for that diagnosis
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You have written pre-approval from your insurance company that they will cover the costs of Reunification Therapy or Family Work.
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If claims are denied in the future, the financially responsible party will be charged the private pay rate of $200/session for any claims not paid out or payments are returned to insurance carriers.
