Building Understanding, Connection, and Positive Change
Family Therapy enables family members, couples and others who care about each other to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, to understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on strengths and make useful changes in their relationships and their lives. Individuals can find this therapy helpful and as an opportunity to reflect on important relationships and find ways forward.
This way of working involves engaging with the whole family system as a
functioning unit. While the individuals in the family are as important in family
therapy as in individual therapy, family therapists also deal with the personal
relations and interactions of the family members, both inside the family and in
the therapeutic system which comprises of the family, the therapist or
therapists, and their broader community.