Family Therapy
FAMILY THERAPY is available as an adjunct service to individual therapy AND as a service on its own. Family therapy helps to identify and treat family problems that cause dysfunction. Therapy focuses on improvement in specific areas including communication and problem-solving skills. Family therapy plays a key role in successful counseling with children and adolescents.
Family therapy is often recommended when:
- In individual therapy, a client’s problems appear inextricably tied to problems with other family members or when their treatment in individual therapy is being undermined
- Issues arise in life cycle transitions
- A blended (i.e. step-) family is having adjustment difficulties
- Problems cross generational boundaries, such as when parents share a home with grandparents, or children are being raised by grandparents
- Members come from mixed racial, cultural, or religious backgrounds
- Families who may or may not have internal problems, but could be troubled by societal attitudes (i.e. unmarried parents, gay couples rearing children, etc.)
