Reunification Counseling Services

Ms. Logan conducts Reintegration Therapy, also commonly known as Reunification Counseling for strained and/or damaged parent-child relationships.  Ms. Logan developed the Child and Adult Reunification Education (CARE) Program to assist families to repair strained parent/child relationships.

There are various reasons in which relationships can become strained resulting in a child resisting and/or refusing contact with a parent.  In some cases, a child may irrationally reject a once loved parent (commonly referred to as Parental Alienation).  Alternatively, as one of many other examples, a parent may have previously struggled with substance abuse thus negatively affecting the child’s desire to spend time with the parent.  Experience indicates, however, that fear is never diminished by avoidance and that fear can be reduced and/or potentially eliminated through appropriate exposure to the parent.

In order to ensure participation in this process, Ms. Logan only conducts Reunification Therapy via a Court Order through the CARE Program.  Generally, Ms. Logan does not determine if Reunification Therapy should occur, however, she does ascertain how it should occur.  In addition, based upon the progress of established treatment goals, Ms. Logan will also dictate when the therapy should end.

The CARE program in most cases will work with family as a system, and Ms. Logan typically requests that both parents are invested in the process.  Joint parental participation is usually vital in order to help ensure that one parent is not actively trying to undermine the process through negative actions, such as failing to keep the child’s appointments.  Intervention with only one parent is likely not to succeed, therefore, Ms. Logan requests that both parents have some responsibility.  This individual parental responsibility may include transportation to and from appointments and/or financial responsibility – even if the financial responsibility is minimal for one of the parents.