Family counselling & Therapy

Family counselling and therapy sessions will help you identify problematic patterns and help your family members break those pattern. We can break these patterns through discussions and problem-solving. I will help your family to learn how to communicate and maintain healthy boundaries.

In family therapy, "family" is defined as a group of people who care about each other and call themselves a family. The goal of family therapy is to help everyone in the family understand and support each other. Family therapy can your family if you are feeling overwhelmed, when you're unsure how to move forward, or when you feel that your family is repeating the same harmful behaviours over and over. If your family is dealing with changes associated with illness, mental health and substance use problems, unemployment, moving, ageing, divorce, trauma, and death and grieving, family therapy can be helpful.

In family therapy we will…

• Talk about each person's hopes.

• Encourage everyone to talk about their experiences and listen to each other.

• Clarify each person's beliefs, values, needs, hopes and assumptions so that everyone understands each other.

• Teach your family stop blaming each other and begin exploring how everyone can work together to make positive changes.

• Help your family understand the impact of their words and behaviours on other members of the family.

• Encourage your family to talk about the challenges they're facing.

• Support your family as you work through your goals.

We can do this by…

Identify your goals: How do you want your family to be different? 

Take responsibility: Be willing to acknowledge the contribution you are making to the current problem. Be conscious of the choices you are making and their impacts for others and for yourself.

Pay attention: :  It will be important to notice what is going on when you get caught in old patterns of behaviour, or when you succeed with new ones.

Be honest: Share your feelings, your hopes and fears, about what is happening between your family members and what is happening in sessions.

Be realistic: Small obtainable goals help move you towards your big goals. 

Be patient: Problems take a long while to develop and be identified; they can take just as long to change. 

Take care of yourself: Selfcare is making sure you are getting the support you need, taking care of your needs so that you can recharge.