Couples / Family
Couples and Family Counseling | Parenting Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Couples Counseling
Marriage relationship difficulties are some of the most common reasons for seeking counseling. Often, there is a general dissatisfaction in the relationship that leads one or both to seek help. Spouses may have trouble communicating with each other about their needs and wants in the relationship or problems can center around poor communication, trust, intimacy, the parent-child interaction or even extended family relationships. Couples counseling seeks to improve the communication patterns between partners and help them to connect with each others needs to heal and restore intimacy and caring.
With couples counseling the reasons partners seek help include, affairs, lack of intimacy, trust issues, arguing, misaligned values, parenting differences, poor communication, alcohol or drug issues or a general dissatisfaction with the relationship. While its important to have both partners involved in counseling, it is not always necessary for a reluctant partner to join counseling at first. One individual's change in the relationship can provide positive impact to both in the relationship. Often one person can make change and eventually encourage the other spouse to participate at a later time.
Family Counseling
Family counseling focuses on understanding the multiple relationships between parents, children, extended family and outside relationships. Family relationships are very complex, requiring the understanding many layers of interaction. Reasons parents may seek family counseling include help dealing with a difficult child who struggles with emotional or behavioral problems. Solutions often involve parents learning new techniques and participating in the counseling process. In most families, problems are not isolated. One problem in a parent-child relationship can have dramatic impact on other relationships in the family.
In both family and couples counseling, if there is a commitment from at least one member of the family to change, then that individual can have a potential effect to improve the dynamics in the total family interaction.
Some common reasons families seek help include:
Acting out teens and adolescents with behavior issues
Children dealing with problems at school or in relationships
A child or parent suffering with depression, anxiety or another chronic illness
Issues around parenting
Inconsistent or conflicting parenting approaches
Issues with drugs or alcohol
Issues before or after a divorce
Trouble in step families and blended families
Out of control adolescents or teens
Conflict between parents
Financial issues
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