Janette Dill, LMFT (she/her) is a graduate of LaSalle University’s Marriage and Family Therapy Program which included a one year internship where she worked with individuals, couples, and family systems. Added to that list due to a large demand at The Center For Growth is Sex Therapy which could be explored as an individual and/or couple. Post graduate experience has drawn a clinical concentration that has focused on individuals with phases of life transitions, improving work-life balance, anxiety, depression, low self esteem, and grief and loss. Sex therapy may includes exploring sexuality, improving sexual satisfaction, fetishes, increasing intimacy, boundaries, rules, safe sex play.

The family work I have treated clinically has largely followed a structural model. This approach is designed to focus on the systemic structure of the family, or lack thereof, and how to repair that if needed. As well as, looking at the interactions between members and how to restructure them in a more healthy way to benefit the system overall. This approach encourages creating strong foundations and boundaries within the system to be able to adapt to psychological or emotional needs of its members, such as parent child conflict. Home structure and environment play an integral part in our identity as we develop as adults. Family therapy allows me to see each individual as a unique and valuable part of a larger system. Every member plays a role within the system. This approach helps members to value each other in conjunction with those roles. Families are complex, not all look and function the same. The issues that resulted in the decision to start therapy were created over time and will not be solved quickly. Think of family therapy like renovating a home. It will take time, energy, compromising, planning, patience, understanding, and acknowledging some hard truths, which could lead to improved functioning as a unit. While this is the model I primarily use it isn’t the only one that can be utilized depending on the presenting issue.