FAMILY
THERAPY
Connect with your loved ones
What is Family Therapy?
Family therapy provides enormous value to families, as they work through their issues alongside a qualified mental health professional. Why? Therapists serve as an objective third party who can often point out blind spots and help loved ones identify the ultimate source of their challenges and assist in finding solutions. Improving your relationships with your loved ones can also lead to improvements in other areas of life functioning enhancing your overall well-being.
Trained to Help Families
Family bonds are rich, complex, profound – and sometimes painful. Family can both build us up and break us down. But in its ideal state, a family is the crucible in which we can become our best and truest selves. This is where family therapy can help. Our specialized therapists are trained to guide loved ones who are having issues connecting with each other and have a pretty good idea of what makes a happy, healthy family, and they can share their knowledge through safe, nonjudgmental counseling sessions.
Benefits of Family Therapy
Family therapy can help:
- Improve communication skills
- Reduce conflict
- Lessen stress and dysfunction
- Improve behaviors
- Create healthier boundaries
- Improve coping skills and resilience
- Encourage growth of empathy and compassion
Getting Started
The first session involves the therapist building rapport with the family members and understanding the family’s dynamics, beliefs, and values. Your therapist empathizes and demonstrates a genuine interest in your family’s experiences – an essential step for creating a safe and trusting environment where family members can share their concerns openly.
Throughout the next sessions, the therapist will assess and gather information and your input to understand family structure, boundaries, hierarchies, and communication patterns. This assessment phase aims to identify problematic patterns and behaviors that contribute to family issues. Therapists may use various techniques like observing interactions, conducting interviews, and developing genograms to gain a comprehensive understanding of the family’s functioning.
Once the therapist has assessed the family’s dynamics and identified problematic patterns, collaboratively with you, the therapist may suggest changes in boundaries, perspective, and communication styles to promote healthier relationships.
Family counseling aims to encourage better communication, problem-solving, and conflict resolution, reinforcing positive behaviors and providing support. Therapists guide families in building resilience and coping with challenges as they adapt to new interaction patterns.
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