Should She Confront a Family Secret?
Publisher |
LWC Studios
Media Type |
audio
Publication Date |
Oct 03, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:19:50

Brenda thinks it’s time for her Mexican family to speak openly about her father’s infidelity and newly-discovered half-sister, but she's ambivalent about starting the conversation. And marriage and family therapist Gilza Fort Martinez offers advice for creating the right context, choosing the time and place, and exercising sensitivity around family revelations.

Featured Expert: 

Gilza Fort-Martinez is a bilingual licensed marriage and family therapist with over 25 years of experience in conflict resolution, interpersonal relationships, women’s challenges and life transitions, she has successfully helped individuals in the community rediscover and create paths of resolution that have turned their lives around. Through honest feedback and a solution-driven approach, My Navigational Mapping™, she meets patients where they are emotionally and guides them in building an abstract comprehensive roadmap that helps increase self-awareness, and explores safe paths that bring them to a place of emotional wellness. Learn more about Gilza's work here.

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