What is family therapy?
Family therapy helps families resolve conflicts and strengthen their relationships. It is led by qualified mental health professionals like psychologists, licensed professional counselors (LPCs), and licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs) who have extensive training in family dynamics and group communication.
How does family therapy work?
Thriveworks family therapists in Georgetown, TX usually begin by asking what everyone’s goals are for family counseling. Family members may need help with very specific issues or with general relationship functioning. But there are three main purposes in family counseling: to educate, to counsel, and to strengthen. Thriveworks also offers online family therapy and in-person services, so you may all meet in an office together or join a video call from your home depending on everyone’s location and availability.
What is the most effective family therapy?
The most effective form of Family therapy will often depend on the family itself, as there are many types of family therapy for therapists to use as they see fit in order to best meet the needs of their clients. However, one of the most commonly used types of family therapy is structural family therapy (SFT). SFT focuses specifically on family dynamics and interactions, looking at how they shape the relationships and structure present in the family. It can be effectively used to treat a variety of concerns.
How do I know if my family needs therapy?
This answer often looks different to each family that starts family therapy. However, some signs that your family might need to consider family counseling include frequent fights or misunderstandings, constant tension, experiencing loss, behavioral issues, marital issues, divorce, and blended family issues, among others.
What is included in family therapy?
In family therapy, therapists will often start by asking questions and assessing individual and family dynamics. From there, they may employ therapeutic techniques such as structured family therapy, CBT, strategic family therapy, and more depending on the present concerns and conflicts. From there, a therapist will work to open lines of communication between family members and facilitate emotional healing and growth.
What is the success rate of family therapy?
Family therapy can be incredibly successful, with some studies reporting a success rate of almost 90% for improving participants’ emotional and mental health, and around 66% for improving their physical health.
Is family therapy conducted in person or online?
Thriveworks therapists in Georgetown, TX offer both online family therapy and in-person family therapy. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you.
How long does family therapy last?
Family therapy is usually short term and solution-focused, with most families accomplishing their goals in 12 sessions or fewer. However, it can also last for longer if the probles at hand are more complex — and that’s okay, too.
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Therapy for Families in Georgetown, TX—Counseling and Coaching
Families often flourish when each member contributes and each member has their needs met, but achieving this balance can be harder than anticipated. Life can easily knock families off equilibrium. Here are just a few examples of challenges that families frequently face:
- One family member is experiencing frustration or anger that affects other family members.
- You or your spouse cannot agree on parenting styles, and your children are experiencing behavior problems.
- Family members are cold and apathetic toward one another.
- A family pattern is hurting a family member over and over again.
- Hurt feelings have resulted from poor or lack of communication.
When families are knocked off balance, an outside perspective may help re-establish healthy ways of connection. Family therapy attempts to help families understand the challenges that threaten their family’s equilibrium and how to make adjustments that benefit each individual member and the family as a whole.
Thriveworks Georgetown offers family therapy because we know that every family needs support along the way. Our counselors have helped many families work through their challenges and re-establish balance. Reach out today to get started.
Benefits of Family Therapy
The central idea of family therapy is that people’s identities, behaviors, and beliefs are formed in their families of origin, and therefore, individuals are most fully known in the context of their family.
When families communicate well and when they experience interdependence, they often flourish. Strong families bring many benefits to their members and to the community, including:
- Decreased risk of poverty (when parents share income potential)
- More secure attachments can be formed between children and parents (and children may carry these healthy relational skills into their adulthood relationships).
- Increased emotional connection and comfort from family
- Increased ability to handle stress and hardship
- Reduced risk of anxiety disorders and depression-related conditions.
- Reduced instances of abuse, neglect, or problems with the law.
Reasons to Attend Family Therapy
Here are a handful of reasons families have chosen to work through their challenge together in therapy:
- Hormonal changes in a teen or parent that may be leading to conflict
- Insufficient premarital counseling and/or marriage maintenance counseling
- A family member with special needs who has an unequally distributed burden of care
- Abuse, neglect, and/or addiction
- Overbearing parenting choices that result in rebellious children
- Lax parenting choices that result in out-of-control children
- Intimacy difficulties in the marriage relationship
- An individual family member with unmet needs
- Tension/strain in spousal, parent/child, or in-law relationships
- Times of particular stress such as job loss or death of a loved one
The problems that many families face do not have quick fixes or silver bullets, but they do have solutions if each family member is ready to do their part. Family therapy may be the safe place your family needs to acknowledge an unhealthy pattern, listen to one another, and find a more balanced path forward.
Thriveworks Georgetown Offers Family Therapy
The therapist at Thriveworks Georgetown aim to help families find practical solutions to life’s biggest challenges. We understand that staying together as a family is hard and that regaining balance after life throws a curveball is important.
If you are ready work through life’s challenges as a family, then Thriveworks Georgetown is here to help. When you call our office, a person will help schedule your appointment. Many clients see their therapist within the week of scheduling, and we offer weekend and evening appointments. We also accept many insurance plans.
Being a family can be challenging, but finding the right balance is worth the effort. Call Thriveworks Georgetown, TX today for family therapy.
