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Family Counseling

Family Counseling is a form of talk therapy that focuses on the improvement of relationships among family members. Typically family counseling sessions will include all or specific members of a family at each appointment.

Our family counselors evaluate family roles and development, to understand how clients’ families affect their relationships with each and how each person is impacted.

Family Counseling typically focuses on the clients’ relationships, not just the clients themselves. Family counseling can help families navigate concerns such as stress, addiction, and substance abuse. It is typically a short-term form of counseling.

Methods

Some methods of family counseling include:

  • Functional Family Therapy – Typically focuses on families with a child or an adolescent with complex emotional or behavioral problems. The sessions will help families learn strategies to deal with the child’s behavior and improve family functioning.
  • Multisystemic Therapy – Aims to address any behavioral and emotional problems of children and adolescents. Multisystemic therapy also focuses on broader issues with the child’s behavior. For example, it could aim to improve their interaction with social systems, such as schools or neighborhoods.
  • Transgenerational Therapy – Involves a counselor examining interactions across generations, such as between parents or caregivers and children. The aim is to understand how past responses to challenges influence the family’s current interactions or problems.
  • Brief Strategic Family Therapy – Aims to change the patterns of interaction between family members. It is a time-limited intervention that targets family problems leading to problematic symptoms showing in youths.
  • Structural Therapy – Help families manage situations that arise becuase of the family structure. It aims to achieve a functioning and balanced family hierarchy, with appropriate boundaries between members.

Techniques

Some of the strategies a Relationship Counselor might employ:

  • Getting to Know You – The counselor creates a sense of safety by getting to know each member of the family. They work actively and collaboratively with you to help you understand each person’s perspective better.
  • Identify Feelings – The counselor helps family members identify feelings and put them into words to one another.
  • Exploring the Past – Family counseling often involves exploring the past, since that can help you better understand your fears, motivations, and behaviors in a relationship. It can also help address unresolved conflicts that affect your present.
  • Focusing on Solutions – The counselor will work with family members to resolve issues, correct negative behavior patterns, and focus on positive aspects of the family.
  • Teaching Skills –  Teaching family members anger management, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills. The aim is to equip everyone with tools to help you deal with concerns as they crop up.

Benefits

Family Counseling provides family members the opportunity to discuss and resolve issues related to several aspects of your relationships, which can include:

  • Boundaries – Help family members identify theoir individual boundaries and effectively communicate them to other family members.
  • Communication – Help family members discuss individual beliefs, values, and religious sentiments and the implications of these aspects on your daily lives.
  • Family Member Roles – Help family members identify the known and unknown role within the family dynamic.
  • Problem Solving Abilities – Help family members address concerns that may cause family to compete with each instead of work togther to resolve common concerns.
  • Coping Skills – Help family members identify effective coping methods to typical stressors within a family dynamic.
  • Familial Relationships – Help family members work out concerns stemming from conflicts with other family members, like parents, children, and siblings.
  • Dysfunctional Interactions – Help family members with situations related to negative beleifs or emotions associated with one or multiple individuals.
  • Health Issues – Help family members navigate the stress physical or mental health concerns put on the family.
  • External Stressors – Help family members deal with conflicts related to external factors, like work for instance, that can put stress on your relationship.