OUR SERVICES
Family Counseling
Family therapy is designed to help family members improve communication skills and resolve conflicts. Family therapy can be useful in any family situation that causes stress, grief, anger or conflict. It can help you and your family members understand one another better and learn coping skills to bring you closer together. Generally, our therapists will do a few family therapy sessions to supplement the individual therapy of a child or an adult. Family therapy is not couples counseling. If you are looking for couples counseling, please look at that specialty for a list of therapists that do couples counseling. To ensure you are getting the best care, therapist have set the same age limit requirements that they would have in individual counseling
WHY THERAPY BENEFITS YOU
Benefits of
Family Counseling
With divorce rates soaring and incidents of domestic violence wreaking havoc on society, the benefits of marriage and couples counseling could not be more needed. Too many people enter their unions with a Disney Princess type mentality of their happily ever after. What they come to realize is that life can be stressful, and if a couple does not handle that stress well together, it can end badly.
Perspective shifting in marriage counseling is a vital benefit. Skilled, evidence-based providers will attempt to shift a perspective from blame to a broader cooperative and co-created view. Patterns of dysfunctional reactivity in couples create ill feelings and block intimacy from occurring.
Behavior and the choice of how a couple interacts is a shift that can be very beneficial in couples counseling. Dysfunctional interaction can sometimes lead to violence and other potentially dangerous behavior. Counselors can help relationships improve by reducing the occurrence of these behaviors.
Another benefit of marriage counseling is in the area of emotional avoidance. Through a good counselor, marriages can improve by decreasing this avoidance. Couples who can effectively speak about what they’re feeling with each other allow intimacy to flourish.
Communication in relationships is critical. Without the proper ability to speak to each other, couples can develop poor habits in communication that create more conflict that further deteriorates the marriage bond. Counseling gives couples a framework for the “how” of communication.
Counseling in couples also allows focusing on a relationship’s strengths. Within every relationship, some things work well. Couples who can highlight what works well and focus on building other areas that are lacking, build true resilience.
What has been found is that most couples wait too long to seek counseling. So get started today!
This information was derived from an aritcle found at https://positivepsychology.com/benefits-of-counseling/