Family Counseling

Family Counseling:

Parenting: Parenting is rewarding, but children unfortunately do not come with instruction manuals. As a result, parenting can often become stressful, challenging and overwhelming. With constructive parenting guidance, you can learn the skills needed to encourage your children’s cooperationwhile enabling you to foster a healthy relationship with your children.

Blended families:Two families coming together requires a major adjustment for both parties. Cultivating a positive and constructive environment for blended families can be a challenging process from the beginning. If you are experiencing such difficulties,family therapy can help make this transition easier and more positive for everyone involved.

Family therapy typically involves the entire family as the breakdown is occurring within the whole family system. However, there are instances where the issues may only be between two parties, such as the couple, siblings, or one member of the parental system and the subsystem. Family issues can present themselves when no one is talking about an apparent problem or stuck in a perpetual cycle of arguing about the issue with no solution in sight, or everyone stays in their perspective concerns while avoiding each other. At the same time, everyone has a different story to the series of events that leads to a negative pattern emerging, leaving the family stuck. As an example, if one parent works a lot and keeps breaking promises made to the rest of the family but no one talks about it, it will manifest itself in different ways. It is possible that the child lashes out and the issue is not brought up, hence leading to a bigger issue in the family. It is possible as adverse issues are often not communicated in the family and are left unresolved. And this becomes a deciding factor on how the family interacts with each other in the long term.

Here are some signs you may need to seek family therapy

Parent-Child Conflict

Sibling Conflict

Support after a Traumatic Event

Loss of Another Family Member

Planning for an Aging Parent or Medical Issue

Blended Family Dynamics and Step-Parenting

Co-Parenting

Behavioral or Mood Difficulties in a Child

Communication Difficulties with Adult Children

Family politics

Parenting through and after Divorce

Dysfunctional patterns of communication

Working with a family therapist can help you address these underlying issues to break the negative cycle and distress to form healthy connections and interactions. Although issues may arise in the future, counseling will ensure that the family is better equipped to navigate them without additional hurt and distress arising from a lack of healthy communication and boundaries.