Family Therapy

Family Therapy

Through family therapy your family can resolve conflict, improve communication, problem solve together, and create harmony in your home. Family relationships are vital to the well-being of individuals. When families can respond to each other’s emotional needs, respect differences, and work through difficult feelings families become stronger.

Your therapist may recommend that you meet as whole family, or also have some supplemental individual appointments to address topics and issues that relate to your family’s therapy work. Individual therapy with children or adolescents will include a family therapy component as part of the treatment plan.

In general, anyone who wants to improve strained family relationships can benefit from family therapy. You
can use family therapy to address many specific issues, such as marital and financial problems, conflict
between parents and children, and the effects of substance abuse and depression on the entire family.

A family therapist:

• Teaches family members about how families function in general and, in particular, how
  their own functions.

• Helps the family focus less on the member who has been identified as ill and focus more
  on the family as a whole.

• Assists in identifying conflicts and anxieties and helps the family develop strategies to
  resolve them.

• Strengthens all family members so they can work on their problems together.

• Teaches ways to handle conflicts and changes within the family differently.