UNDERSTANDING FAMILY THERAPY
Family therapy is a type of psychotherapy that can help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts and other challenges that any family go through.
Family therapy may include all family members or just those members of the family that are able and willing to participate on therapy. treatment plan will depend on your family’s situation of what bring you to therapy.
During family therapy sessions your therapist will work with you to teach you skills and tools that will help strengthening your family unity and how to get through stressful times that can extend throughout your life journey past your therapy period.
Family therapy will not automatically solve family conflicts or make certain unpleasant situation go away for good or quickly.
What family therapy will do is that it can help you and your family members ability to understand one another better and provide skills to help and other members of the family ability to cope with challenging situations in a more effective way. It may also help the family achieve a sense of togetherness.
who can attend family therapy
All members of the family
Sibling
Parent and Childrens.
Members of extended family (aunt, uncle, niece etc.)
Members of couple’s family (father, mother, brother, sister in-laws)
benefit of family Therapy
Family therapy can help you improve troubled relationships with your partner, children, or other family members.
Family therapy can help family members to cope with issues such as marital or financial problems, conflict between parents and children, or the impact of substance abuse, addictions, or a mental illness on the entire family or chronic or terminal illness diagnosis of a member of family.
Family therapy can be useful in any family situation that causes stress, grief, loss, anger, or conflict.
Family therapy can help family members understand one another better and learn coping skills to bring you closer together.
What are the expectations during family Therapy session.
During family therapy, you can learn to:
Examine your family’s ability to solve problems and express thoughts and emotions in a productive manner.
To be able to explore family roles, rules and behavior patterns to identify issues that contribute to conflict.
Learn ways on how to work through family issues.
Identify your family’s strengths, and weaknesses.
Effective communication methods among family members to prevent and minimize arguments, frustrations and anger toward one another.
Understand and pinpoint your specific challenges and how your family is handling them.
Learn new ways to interact and overcome unhealthy patterns of relating to each other in a family.
Able to set individual and family goals and work on ways to achieve them without causing problem with other members of the family INSTEAD starting to gain support within the family.
Learn how to set Healthy Boundaries among family members that will line up with your values, faith or belief without offending other family members.