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 Kennesaw, GA 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 Kennesaw, GA 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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Family Therapy in Kennesaw, GA—Cobb Family Therapists and Counselors
Every family needs help when they face challenges. At Thriveworks Kennesaw, our therapists may be able to support your family through the challenge, work with you to fulfill each member’s mental health needs, and help you grow closer in the process.
Call our office at (770) 343-4919 to get started.
Life’s Disturbances and Family Challenges
Life can and often does change in an instant. Therapy can guide families toward healthy, connected responses during disturbances such as:
- An accident that causes injury or disability
- Death of a family member
- Loss of the family’s home
- Loss of a job
- Financial stress or crisis
Not every challenge that families face is a crisis. Some begin slowly and grow with time. Like a crisis, these are usually not anyone’s fault, but if left unaddressed, they may overwhelm the family. Therapy can help families handle on-going challenges such as:
- Mental illness
- Marital conflict
- Parenting challenges
Why Choose Family Therapy?
Many of life’s challenges have solutions, but finding the path forward in the middle of on-going tension or a crisis is really hard. Therapy may give an outside perspective that a family needs to move forward. Here are a few examples of how therapy might help. A skilled therapist may …
- Reopen any barriers to communication that have formed.
- Use calming and integrated techniques to find resolutions to any differences individuals have.
- Design ways for each family member to express their needs and how they can give and receive support.
Family systems therapy and family structural therapy are the two most common forms of family therapy. They rest upon the idea that each individual family member has a unique role and identity from the family, and people are best understood in the context of their family.
The goal of family therapy is to help each member by helping the family as a whole. Therapy may examine how a family copes with stress, takes on certain roles, sets their expectations, and more. A skilled therapist may also delve into each family member’s communication style, birth order, love language, and/or personality type.
Work with a Family Therapist or Psychologist at Thriveworks Kennesaw in Cobb County
The counselors and psychologists at Thriveworks Kennesaw provide family therapy, and they have helped many families learn to connect in healthy ways. We want to help families understand the problems they face and learn how to overcome them. Our counselors…
- Know that the individual or family who asks for help is not the problem—the problem is the problem.
- Find space for dialogue and compromise.
- Offer everyone empathy and understanding.
- Empower each individual to speak up and express their needs.
Call Thriveworks Kennesaw in Cobb County at (770) 343-4919.
