Family Counseling and Couple Therapy
Couple and family therapy is a type of therapy used to help couples, whether married …
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Couple and family therapy is a type of therapy applied to couples, whether married or not, to change and develop their relationships, to help them improve their communication and resolve their conflicts. Couple and family therapists work with individuals, couples, families with children, adult families and groups.
All relationships experience difficulties from time to time. When problems such as relationship problems, marital conflict, divorce, remarriage and parenting issues accumulate or seem too complex to solve, it may be beneficial to meet with a family and couple therapist.
A couple and family therapist can help those who participate in therapy take a different position by working with individuals or the entire family. In addition, they can look at how different factors affect people within the system; they can help clients see their strengths, resilience and available resources, and how all of these contribute to the functioning of the system.
The frequency and amount of sessions vary from family to family, depending on their unique circumstances. Therapy may involve just a few sessions or may last several months or longer. The average session length is 1.5 hours.
Couple and Family Therapy can help with the following:
- Communication difficulties
- Marital conflict
- Parent-child issues
- Work-family balance
- Family crises
- Coping with medical illness
- Helping aging family members
- Sexual issues
- Wanting to separate and divorce
- Financial problems
- Loyalty issues
- Issues faced by remarried families
And when couples choose to end their relationship or divorce, guiding them through the difficult steps of separation with an eye toward minimizing conflict and maximizing mutual respect and understanding is also the work of couple and family therapy.
