Family Therapy 

Just because you love your family members it doesn’t mean that things are easy, and families experience stresses and go through all sorts of experiences, including very difficult experiences together. Family stresses can lead to difficulties within the family unit.

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Your family might need therapy if you are facing challenges like:

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• Difficulty with talking to each other and expressing feelings.

• Families struggling with stress or anger

• Strained relationships between family members

• Communication difficulties

• Going through significant changes to the family unit, such as a divorce, where you have to develop healthy and functional relationships in changed dynamics

• Trauma experiences by a family member or as a family

• Coming to terms with bereavement and grief

• Understanding and managing a complicated or chronic illness like multiple sclerosis, cancer, or stroke

• Understanding and managing mental illness of a family member

• Coping as a family when a family member has a problems with drugs or alcohol

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During family therapy, a therapist helps family members:

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• Express feelings

• Communicate

• Understand each other

• Resolve conflict

• Build on strengths

• Work together

• Develop a sense of unity

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Family therapy sessions may include:

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• Discussing past conflicts and what has and hasn't worked

• Considering family rules and behavioural patterns

• Exploring and developing communication and conflict management tools

• Setting goals, such as having fewer arguments or spending more quality time together

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