Hecht Lorna, Mft

Specialties

My job is to assist you in your efforts to make good decisions, to have healthy relationships, and to pursue your life goals and dreams. I use the Bowen Family Systems Theory method because it promotes personal growth, individual responsibility and maturity in ways not often seen in our quick-​fix culture.

Families differ in how well they manage the challenges of life, but every family and every individual struggles with the same basic issues of how to be a member of the group while remaining a distinct individual.

It only takes one motivated family leader to make significant changes in the family system over time. If you can recognize when you’re stuck in an unhelpful relationship pattern you can figure out different, more productive ways of relating.

A therapist who works from these concepts will help you to understand the patterns at work in your home, to define your position in your family, and to hold firm when there is internal or external pressure to return to old patterns.

History

Established in 1995.

Helping couples, individuals and families with counseling services.

Because few of us understand the normal relationship process as it happens, we try our best to manage the growing intensity and sensitivity, but end up getting stuck in repetitive, sometimes dysfunctional, patterns. You should recognize your own relationship in one or more of the patterns described below:

Conflict, Distance, Over functioning/​under functioning reciprocity or Triangles.

I also help with Individuality and Togetherness, Chronic and Acute Anxiety and Differentiation of Self.

For families we can talk about: Family Relationship Patterns, the Projection process, Multigenerational Transmission Process and Sibling position.

I’m here to help you take responsibility for your part in the family relationship. I believe the work we can do will help you be happier and more contented. I look forward to supporting you on the journey.

Meet the Business Owner

Lorna Z.

Business Owner

In 1992 I decided to go back to school to pursue a degree in psychology. When I looked at various academic programs it became obvious that I was really interested in Family Systems Theory; the study of human relationships. This led me to pursue a Graduate Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.

My goal is to continue to deepen my understanding of Theory for the purposes of enhancing both my personal relationships and my clinical work. In Bowen theory, this is the same ongoing effort.

Education

M.A., Marriage, Family, Child Counseling, University of San Diego, CA, August 1995. B.S., Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, May 1984.