What is an MFT or LMFT?
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, also known as MFTs or LMFTs,
are clinicians with a minimum of a master's degree in psychology,
clinical psychology, counseling psychology, or marriage and family
therapy.
They are trained to understand family systems and provide counseling
and psychotherapy from a variety of therapeutic orientations and
work with individual adults and children, couples, families, and
groups.
MFTs treat a wide range of clinical problems in both children and
adults. These problems can be serious in nature, such as in mood
disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, etc., or they can
be everyday problems, less serious in nature, such as improving
communication or increasing parenting skills. Issues are addressed
while keeping in mind how they impact functioning and relationships.
Strong and healthy relationships (marital, family, work, school or
social) positively impact functioning and life fulfillment.
Today more than 50,000 marriage and family therapists treat
individuals, couples and families nationwide.
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