Welcome to Family Strategies!
Family Strategies has guided clients through life’s challenges since 2002. With proper support, you can overcome and learn how to thrive. We are dedicated to making a difference in people’s lives and provide a positive, trusting, nonjudgemental environment. We offer individual and family counseling services in Homewood, IL as well as online.
Book With a Counselor in Training!
Book with a counselor in training for $10 a session! Family Strategies Counseling and Mediation is committed to the education and training of new counselors and therapists. We employ interns year round that offer afforable couseling to our community. When you work with a counselor in training, they work closely with a liscened therapist to bring you the best help available. Take a look at our interns that are available to book now!
Daniel Kirby
Clinical Intern
Accepting Clients, Online & In Person
Jeannette Alicea
Clinical Intern
Accepting Clients, Online & In Person
Ashlee Burks
Clinical Intern
Accepting Clients, Online & In Person
Our Services
Child & Family Counseling
Is there something you’d like to change about your family? Is there something you want to achieve that has special meaning for you? These are all possible, but sometimes the things we want the most are the most important to us can also be the most difficult to achieve. We offer counseling services for families and children in order to address concerns in a constructive and strategic way. We work with children who are experiencing behavioral issues, mental health concerns, life transitions such as divorce or separation, and traumatic event recovery.
Couples Counseling
The choice to marry is one of the most important decisions a person can make, and yet many people do not put in the effort needed to prepare for their marital relationships. There is more to a marriage than planning a wedding, which involves building skills to help fashion a happy and lasting union. Couples Counseling can be extremely benifical to the health of most relationships. Couples seek out counseling when they want to improve their relationship, or have become unhappy with their current relationship. We offer couples counseling, marriage counseling, and pre-maritcal counseling.
Individual Counseling
Sometimes the only way forward is working through some of our more personal issues. These can be related to mental health, relationships, or a career. We offer Mental Health counseling, anger maagnement, PTSD therapy, and a host of other treatment options.
Latest Articles
No Contact with Parents: Healing from Family Estrangement
No one wakes up and decides to go no contact with their parents. The choice to go no contact with anyone is made after you've tried for years to build a healthy relationship with someone. Unfortunately, when that someone is a parent, society attaches a lot of...
Our Approach to Premarital Counseling
Thanks to our diverse staff, we can offer many kinds of premarital counseling at Family Strategies Counseling and Mediation. Our approach to premarital counseling, therefore, falls into two categories; secular or faith-based premarital counseling. In addition, we...
Co-Parenting Counseling: Is it for Your Family?
Co-parenting can be messy, awkward, and just plain complicated. Unfortunately, no one gives you instructions on how to co-parent after you and your partner separate. However, you are raising a child, and it isn't about how uncomfortable it is for you to be in the same...
Does Your Child Need to See a Therapist?
Knowing when a child needs to see a therapist can be tricky. Kids don't always have the emotional control or communication skills to verbalize their needs or feelings. During difficult times, kids may think they must protect their parents and not add to their pain....
When Parents Use Emotional Blackmail, It Harms Kids
Unfortunately, many parents use emotional blackmail while raising their kids. They use fear, guilt, intimidation, threats, and withholding of patience and affection to get their children to do what they want. Furthermore, many parents are unaware of the harm this does...
Play Therapy for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Family Strategies Counseling & Mediation uses play therapy to reach children of all ages. We often use play therapy to teach empathy or work through specific negative behaviors. Unfortunately, one of the most frequent reasons parents or guardians seek out play...