Family Counseling

When one family member suffers, all family members suffer. Families are a system. What influences one member of the system will influence all members of the system. This has both bad and good implications. Disruptions to the family such as separation, divorce, illness, and death may harm any or all family members. The good news is that positive changes made by family members can improve conditions for the whole family. Your therapist will identify which family members should be working in counseling. Sometimes the family member who is most in need of help is emotionally unready or unwilling to work with a therapist, but can be helped by other family members who work to change the way they respond to the hurting family member.

The most common reasons for family therapy are behavioral or emotional problems of a child. Children do not have the self-control, intellectual maturity, or emotional maturity of adults. Parents often disagree with each other about what is the best way to help their child.