The Family Center was established to provide affordable psychotherapy, supervision, education and workshops for the Greater New Orleans area. Individuals, couples and families are assisted in solving major life problems through understanding and improving their functioning in important relationships. Some of the common problems addressed at the Center are anxiety, depression, marital conflict, behavioral problems, and family conflict.

The therapist helps the clientl look at their current struggle in the context of a larger emotional system in which they live, both past and present.  The client is encouraged to focus on self and take responsbility for the direcction of their own life. One of the main goals of therapy is to help the individual, couple or family develope knowledge of repeating patterns and learn ways to contain their feelings and act on the facts as opposed to responding automatically to their feelings.  Most people are initially seen weekly but after some time are usually seen bi-weekly.

Honey Estapa is a licensed clinical social worker who brings a high level of training and years of experience in studying human behavior.  She received a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Louisiana College, a Master of Social Work degree from Tulane University and completed a Postgraduate Fellowship in Clinical Social Work at the Menninger Clinic.  She remained on staff at the Menninger Clinic specializing in individual and family therapy with adolescents and college students suffering from depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, addiction issues and personality disorders. She led a family dynamics group for the patients and gave a monthly lecture at the Family Workshop addressing issues of addiction and how it impacts the family. 

While in Houston, Honey began working with Victoria Harrison, adjunct faculty at the Bowen Center at Georgetown University. Honey became interested in Bowen Systems Theory and devoted much of her time participating in programs at the Center for the Study of Natural Systems and the Family. She decided to move back to New Orleans and develop her own Center devoted to the study and implementation of Bowen Systems Theory in her clinical practice. 

Honey Estapa, LCSW