Couples Therapy

Using Themes And Metaphor To Mobilize Change

Peggy Papp, M.S.W., is a Supervising Faculty Member of the Ackerman Institute for the Family and also maintains a private practice in family therapy in New York City. Founder and director of the Ackerman Institute’s Depression and Gender Project, she is a recipient of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

After quickly identifying the themes of survival and responsibility underlying her client couple’s troubled union, master couples and family therapist Peggy Papp demonstrates how to use metaphor to free the pair from old patterns and to playfully introduce new ideas into the system.