As humans, we’re wired to connect to others, and our family relationships have a significant influence on the way we feel. When it's good, it's good! But when we fail to hear one another or experience disconnection, the discomfort can be unbearable. Trauma, substance use, or mental illness can be difficult to navigate, while day-to-day discord and disagreements can take their toll on individual family members and the family unit.
At Live Well, we work with families as a whole and offer family counseling in support of individual therapy. When working individually with children and teens, family therapy helps to integrate the work that's done in individual therapy, so the family unit can function better together as a whole.
Family Counseling for Expectant + New Parents
If you're an expectant or new parent, you may find yourself facing unanticipated challenges, uncertainties, and struggles leading up to and through the early stages of parenthood. Working through this period with a counselor can help you set the stage for a more joyful experience in creating your family.
What to Expect
In family therapy, the therapist works with all willing family members to help heal the painful and challenging aspects of your family relationships, so you can experience greater connection, closeness, and joy. As a parent or caregiver, family counseling can help you recognize your own learned patterns and cycles, and learn new ways to connect and interact with your child.
Family therapy aims to open lines of communication, resolve conflict, explore roles and patterns of behavior, and uncover what family members have learned about how to feel and express emotions. When we unpack the stuff that gets in the way of seeing one another clearly, it becomes possible to create deeper connections and a brightened sense of love for one another. Family therapy is also an effective way to learn to cope with tragedy, loss, or mental illness, together.
