FAMILY THERAPY
Family therapy works with a group of people who care for one another share a family bond. This includes parents, children, partners, grandparents, brothers, and sisters, extended family, and caregivers.
Family therapy offers each member understand and support each other through challenges in a safe space. The goal is to improve relationships through building skills to manage all the challenges that come along with loving relationships. Family therapy is can be helpful if you are experiencing:
Communication problems between family members; difficulty expressing emotions or thoughts effectively
Feeling unseen and often misunderstood by others in your family
Supporting a family member living with mental health issues or illness
Frequent arguments, managing power struggles and navigating differences in opinion
Parent-child/teen and sibling relationship issues
Significant life transitions, separation or divorce, or remarriage/new relationships
Blended family challenges, adoption, or loss
Behaviour concerns
Families come in all forms and there are none without some sort of issues. Sometimes, people are able to come together and navigate these challenges on their own and more often than not, people seek out outside support to help them through the more difficult times.
Family counselling can help you to:
Feel more connect to your family members
Repair where needed and strengthen relationships
Improve understanding and communication skills
Feel seen and heard in your family relationships
Develop strategies to parent different ages and stages more effectively
Repair lack of trust
Better understand mental health issues, know how to support, understanding your own limitations and enhance support as a whole family system
Adjusting to new family members or new roles and dynamics
