Family

Family counseling can help you learn skills to improve your family relationships with your children, partner, or other family members. This type of counseling can help the family cope with a wide range of issues that include blended family issues, financial problems, conflict between family members, or the impact of substance abuse or a mental illness that impacts the family. Family counseling can help you and your family communicate and understand each other better. It can be helpful in any family situation that causes grief, stress, conflict, or anger. It can help you learn coping skills to bring your family closer to each other.

Sessions are typically about 55 minutes and it is often short-term. While family counseling typically involves several family members, a family member may still see a family therapist individually.

During family counseling, one can:

·       Explore family roles, rules and behavior patterns to identify issues that contribute to conflict — and ways to work through these issues

·       Examine one’s family's ability to problem solve and express feelings and thoughts in a productive manner

·       Identify one’s family's strengths (e.g. caring for one another) and weaknesses (e.g. difficulty confiding in one another

For more on Family Therapy visit:

https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/family-therapy/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/family-therapy/about/pac-20385237