FAMILY THERAPY

FAMILY THERAPY

Family therapy can help you improve troubled relationships with your spouse, children, or other family members. You may address specific issues such as marital or financial problems, conflict between parents and children, or the impact of substance abuse or a mental illness on the entire family. Family therapy is a type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) that helps family members improve communication and resolve conflicts. Family therapy is often short term. It may include all family members or just those able or willing to participate. Your specific treatment plan will depend on your family's situation. Family therapy sessions can teach you skills to deepen family connections and get through stressful times, even after you're done going to therapy sessions. Family therapy can be useful in any family situation that causes stress, grief, anger or conflict. It can help you and your family members understand one another better and bring you closer together.

Neil mainly uses a family therapy model informed by Systems theory and Attachment theory.This model focus on core conflicts between family members, the misunderstandings and failures that happen in relationships between family members, and vulnerable emotions that occur both in session and outside of sessions. The model emphasize the instinctual desire that people have to feel securely attached to others and use that attachment as the primary mechanism for change and that the system of interpersonal relations often require review and/or change. Thus, families who participate in this treatment may find that the family relationship begins to improve overall.