Family Therapy Provided to You
Families can experience periods of conflict, stress, transition, or disconnection that affect everyone involved.
Family therapy focuses on the relationships and patterns within the family system rather than identifying one person as the problem. Sessions may involve strengthening communication, developing healthier boundaries, improving understanding between family members, and creating more effective ways of responding to conflict.
What Is the Therapist's Role in Family Therapy?
Family therapy looks beyond one person as “the problem” and instead considers how communication, roles, expectations, relationships, stressors, and recurring patterns affect the family system.
Our role is to help family members better understand these patterns and develop healthier ways of responding to one another.
We work to provide balanced attention to the experiences of the people involved while also recognizing that not every behavior should be treated as equally healthy or acceptable.
When concerns involving safety, abuse, coercion, or harmful boundaries are present, those concerns may need to be addressed directly.
Family therapy works best when members are willing to become curious not only about what other people are doing, but also about the ways they themselves participate in the family's patterns.
What are some common things that my counselor works with?
Reclamation & Recovery Counseling proudly provides services to teens, adults, relationships and families! Our practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming, kink-aware, and welcoming of diverse identities and relationship structures. We are committed to providing an inclusive therapeutic environment where clients do not need to hide important parts of themselves in order to receive care.
Common things that our counselors work with in Family Therapy can include the following: Communication Issues, Divorce, Adjusting to Having Children, Adjustment to Change, and Adjusting to being a Blended Family. Check out our Blogs Page for more in-depth explanations.
What can I expect to happen in a family session?
These meetings will be held between yourself, all invited family members and your counselor. All activities will be geared towards the healing of the family unit. This approach is a tad different than the traditional session between just you and a counselor. These sessions may also be more hands on and directive, as the counselor aids you and your family in creating a healthier dynamic. Depending on the concerns that are bringing you into counseling, typical items that are covered in family sessions include: learning communication skills, providing education about family dynamics, teaching and practicing empathy for family members, and joint goal planning.