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Family problems are normal and can never be avoided. But if you feel like you’re dealing with something extra challenging and affecting your family in many ways, seeing a family therapist can help. Your Tasker can guide and work with you to address concerns that impact your family, including communication and behavioural problems, troubled relationships, marital or financial issues, substance abuse, and illnesses.
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Top Family Therapy related questions
There can be different signs that show the need of seeing a family therapist. For example, it could be that family members are finding it difficult to function in their normal capacity, having extreme emotional reactions, expressing feelings of helplessness, or withdrawing from family life. A therapist can also help if your family is experiencing trauma, threats of violence, changes in behaviour, or a breakdown in communication.Â
Family members may become defensive and reactive due to the emotions and feelings already built up before beginning therapy. Another risk could be the stress it may have for children and teens who may not understand the situation yet. But fortunately, the benefits of going to a family counselling near you outweigh the risks.
When choosing a family therapist, you should always look for their credentials, experience, and skills. Try to know their family philosophy and preferred approach to family issues. A family therapist should also be caring and compassionate. Finally, they must offer specific strategies that can help you improve your family dynamics and relationship and teach you how to implement them.
People generally see a family therapist for about six to twelve sessions. Keep in mind that this number is not fixed, and it can depend on a lot of factors. The severity of the issues, your goals with the therapy, and your willingness to participate actively can affect the number of sessions you should have with your family therapist.
Each session can run from at least an hour to two hours, but this can vary depending on the issues being handled on that specific session. All of you must show up on time for your family therapy session. This is to maximise the session and get the most out of all the family members’ time.
Ideally, family coaching sessions should also include family members, especially those affected by the issues you’re having. But it’s perfectly fine if they’re not able to attend or if they’re not willing to participate. For those who are not yet ready to talk to the therapist with other family members present, you can take time to do individual counselling with your family therapist.
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What do family therapy services include?
Family therapy services involve helping you address the issues and overcome the difficulties you face as one family unit. It focuses on family interactions and dynamics and explores patterns, conflicts, and communication.Â
Family counselling can help you develop skills for coping with challenging situations and handling conflict, provide you with new insights and understanding, and strengthen your family relationship. Here are some of the types of family therapy service you can expect:
Structural family therapy
Because of work duties and other responsibilities, it can be difficult for parents to look after their children. This can cause issues for each family member, particularly unhealthy behaviours exhibited by the children. Structural family therapy can help shift the family’s structure, ensure hierarchy, and establish appropriate boundaries and healthy communication between the parents and the children. On top of this, you can also hire a life coach who can equip you with the skills needed to maintain a healthy work-life balance to help you commit more time to your family.
Systemic family therapy
Some members of the family may have mental health conditions, addictions, and eating disorders. Systemic family therapy sees these unhealthy behaviours not as the main problem of the family but as a symptom of a larger issue that needs to be addressed. To do that effectively, the entire family needs to willingly cooperate to change the family structure, belief patterns, and interactions. In this approach, your Tasker is neutral, distant, and only acts as the catalyst to allow yourselves to sit with your thoughts and emotions and dive deeper into your issues as one family unit.
Strategic family therapy
If you want a more direct approach to solving your family issues, strategic family therapy can help. This generally offers focused strategies to help you resolve the most pressing issues that you’re facing here and now, without dwelling too much into your emotions and the source of the problem. Your Tasker can help you look for immediate solutions to your family’s issues and address them as quickly as possible. They can also assign you homework, so expect to have an active role outside your therapy sessions.
Bowenian family therapy
For those who can’t or don’t want to involve other members in the therapy, the Bowenian approach is for you. This approach primarily focuses on the individual and how distance and togetherness can affect family dynamics. Using this type of family therapy, your Tasker may look at the issues and patterns that have been passed down from one generation to another. So aside from helping you work on your mental wellness to affect the entire family positively, this can also reframe and address your family’s multigenerational issues.