- Receive support and experience growth during challenging times.
- Help you identify and understand negative communication patterns that interrupt emotional closeness and satisfaction in your relationship
- Restore, repair and develop more open and secure emotional connections
- Learn strategies for reparing and enhancing friendship and love in your relationships
- Develop a deeper sense of closeness and satisfaction in your relationship
In family therapy, the preference is for the therapist to begin the family therapy by meeting with all members of the immediate family. Subsequent sessions may involve working with different subsystems (for example, the parent subsystem) in the family depending on the work that needs to be done.
The first session is generally for the therapist to get to know the family, find out what has brought the family to family therapy, and to observe the family dynamics. Questions will be asked by the family therapist to get an understanding of relationships in the family and identify nodal points in the family’s timeline.
Ideally, therapy is terminated when the problem that you pursued therapy for becomes more manageable or is resolved. Some challenges can be more complex and take longer to resolve.