Children reflect the strains of childhood within and outside of the family

Family Systems Therapy

Murray Bowen, M.D. Founder, Georgetown Family Center
A child may be suffering from:
The bully at school, adolescent adjustment,
A separation /divorce or a new“blended family”
They are withdrawn, angry, acting out,
Failing in school or just sad or too quiet.

The family gathers together to understand, support and heal. Single parents and couples have their issues. Depression, infidelity, gambling, substance abuse, often unspoken in the family, take their toll.

Family Systems Therapy has guided families for nearly 50 years. If you would like to talk over your family issues call for a free phone consultation.

Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT

Graduate, Georgetown Family Center
415-337-9474

Friday Job Seekers Group

Self Empowerment

 Fridays: 3:30- 5 PM

Attitude is everything! $20 per session in advance, $30 at the door.

Call for further information:

(415) 337-9474

 

Lila Caffery MA., CCHT

Biography:

Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT, took her MA in counseling at the University of Maryland and is a graduate of Georgetown University's Family Center where she trained under Murray Bowen, M.D., founding director, and creator of Family Systems Theory. With over thirty years of practice, she is an experienced family consultant, and a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. She specializes in Inner Child work and the Enneagram, both profoundly spiritual approaches to individual growth and healing.

She has a general clinical practice in San Francisco and over the internet via videocoferencing. She specializes in family reconciliation, addiction and trauma recovery, especially those suffering from physical and sexual abuse. Having worked with women in prison and at a Federal halfway house in Oakland, she remains devoted to these populations. She is a multicultural, racial, religious and sexually sensitive consultant.

A past retreat director at both the Jesuit Retreat House in Los Altos Hills, CA. where she gave her Inner Child retreat for many years, and at the Mercy Center at Auburn, CA, she has also given this work in translation in long residential settings in Japan and continues this transformational work in both short weekend formats and in an annual five-month Saturday Intensive format in San Francisco. She lectures at local conferences in the Bay Area about the deep healing that this experiential work achieves.

On Inner Child Healing

Inner Child Healing offers a directed, effective and intuitive process that combines traditional psychology with experiential, creative and spiritual ways of accessing old scars and negative core beliefs formed in your childhood that have been left unexamined and unhealed. Perhaps, even now, you are unaware of their existence except for the defensive and self defeating patterns that they have caused you.

Whether you are still looking for a mate, a really fulfilling career or just a more exciting and rewarding life these wounds are holding you back. If you are struggling with addictions -- and there are so many—or just isolating or anxious and angry you can be free of this awful baggage that is keeping you in a never ending cycle of defensive actions that you keep hoping will eventually work -- though they rarely do.

Why do I talk about the seeds of self in childhood? Because that is where we learn who we are and what our possibilities are. We have to learn where those lessons hurt us and made us feel unimportant, flawed, or even bad. There are new lessons to replace the old ones. Even in the best families the lessons often limit our positive belief in the beautiful creation that we are. That is our birthright.

It is just such a journey that I invite you to make: to lay down your self doubt and become a new creation - your practical every day problems worked through with your new power of self-love and self belief to a deep renewal of the spirit.  Come, let’s talk it over. You have what it takes.

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"Thank you for helping me renounce my self doubt, isolation, and fear.
I've always wanted to do something like this for myself."
Kathy

“Doing inner child work with Lila Caffery made a DRAMATIC difference in my life. With Lila’s help I confronted – and ultimately shifted – negative core beliefs around abandonment that were sabotaging me in relationships – romantic and professional.
I’ve done a lot of therapy – I’ve had maybe a dozen therapists over the 20 years of my adult life – Lila is the only one who was able to take me into the core of the issues that I needed to work on. I could’t recommend this work more highly.”
 Robert Friedman

"The mask of my smile was very thick and it contained fear and deep sorrow. I wish I could love many people with a true smile. Thank you for holding me
and accepting me"
Yumi (Japan)

You can heal and find your Power too!