ABOUT US:
What is Marriage and Family Therapy?
The name is confusing! Although we have specialized training in working with Couples and Families, we also treat individuals. We treat presenting issues such as depression, anxiety, and relational issues. Focusing on a multitude of areas such as parenting skills, coping with adolescents, individuals adapting to challenging life transitions, couples grappling with communication and intimacy issues and anything in-between. Treatment is designed to meet your unique needs. A safe, collaborative environment is provided, in order to help you to acquire self-efficacy, communication skills and tools to help reach your goals. Also, using a family systems perspective, we identify and explore roles, life stage transitions, and destructive family patterns that may be holding you back.
“The Couples Therapy and Family Therapy approaches have been shown by research to be the most effective treatment for a whole host of problems. Even for problems like depression, that seem to be localized within a single individual. The effectiveness of couple and family therapy stems from the fact that it focuses on changing aspects of our family and couple relationships that are triggering and/or reinforcing the problems we bring to therapy.”
Kelly Flynn, MA LMFT
Kelly Flynn is an experienced and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for over 10 years. Kelly is the Supervisor and Clinical Director at Main Street Marriage and Family, and holds an Adjunct Professorship position at local universities. Kelly uses a systems approach in working with her clients. She helps clients to determine the barriers in their lives that maintain clinical struggles, and working past them. Kelly also uses Solution Focused and Post Modern techniques. Before private practice, her career began in community counseling centers, mental health clinics as well as substance abuse centers. She has broad knowledge and skills to help clients with a variety of presentations, coming from all different backgrounds. Kelly also holds a masters in Early Childhood Development and Education. Trained in couples work and the most successful couple’s therapy models to date, as well as specializing in the family system, anxiety, depression, and life stage transition issues, such as the transition of divorce.
Praise Hong, MFT-I
Praise has trained in the systems approach to therapy and works with individuals, couples, and families. She is passionate about fostering mutual respect and understanding between partners and family members. Her guiding philosophy comes from her belief that every individual has the innate ability to learn and grow from experience and make positive changes to live a healthier and more confident life. She aims to empower her clients, as the experts of their own life, to define and reach their desired goals for themselves, their partner, or their family. Praise draws from a combination of cognitive-behavioral, emotionally focused, and contextual theories with goals of insight, healing, and change. Her strengths-based approach also includes helping clients adopt positive coping mechanisms, communication skills and self-regulation techniques. Collaboration, curiosity, and compassion are some of the key elements Praise brings into her sessions. Praise provides therapy in Korean and English.