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Difficulties between mothers and adult daughters can cause much distress to both parties. Mother daughter therapy provides a safe space in which to identify what is going wrong and explore ways to either repair the relationship or come to terms with a level of emotional distance that we may not have chosen - at least in the short term. Therapy Together Joint therapy for a mother and daughter can often be helpful if you are both able to talk about old hurts, power imbalances,

No matter how hard we try to keep ourselves safe or  find out what is wrong, the distance between us and one or several family members remains.

When something is going wrong in an important relationship (whether it be between a couple, parents and adult children, siblings or friends), is therapy together usually the best way to tackle the problem?  Or, would individual therapy be more beneficial?

In my last post about conflict between parents and adult children I introduced the concept of identifying and changing the power dynamic within the relationship. When children are young, parents tend to have all or most of the power - they are in charge. As children become adults, this power dynamic will need to shift. What could possibly go wrong?!   What Is Power? Power can be defined in many different ways. I tend to think of it as the ability to make decisions for oursel

Relationships are difficult. How we balance two or more people's needs so that everyone gets enough of what they want most of the time is invariably a tricky business.