At the Institute for Family Services, family therapy is rooted in our broader view of healing and therapeutic practice. We understand healing as both a personal and collective process shaped by relationships, culture, history, identity, community, and systems of power.
Families today take many forms, including nuclear families, single-parent families, extended families, blended families, same-sex couples, chosen families, and multigenerational households. Each family carries its own strengths, histories, and challenges. These may include trauma from life events, parenting stress, academic and social concerns, work-life demands, relationship struggles, caregiving for elders, immigration-related stress, identity-based harm, and other difficulties that emerge across the lifespan.
Our clinicians work with individuals, couples, children, adolescents, parents, and families through liberation-based practices of marriage and family therapy. Rather than pathologizing people or reducing care only to symptom management, we focus on strengthening resilience, restoring dignity, building connection, and supporting meaningful change.
The innovative team at IFS works to link individuals and families with one another in ways that build therapeutic communities. Through counseling, therapeutic circles, family support, and community-based care, clients who may have been stigmatized, labeled, or isolated are invited into experiences of self- transformation, belonging, and healing.
Our services are offered across class, race, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, family structure, and presenting concern. All IFS clinicians are trained in liberation-based practices of marriage and family therapy in New Jersey.
New clients: Call 732-873-1663 or email us to request an appointment.
We offer early and late evening initial consultations.
