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The Benefits of Family Counseling

3/8/2019

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Transitions within the family can be tough. Significant life changes can bring conflict, confusion, and uncertainty to a family system, uprooting consistency and stability. Family counseling is a great resource to process difficult circumstances as a unit. Seeking family therapy has proven itself to be helpful during difficult transitions including divorce, a move, grief and loss, adding new family members (birth of a sibling, grandparent moving in, etc.), and a new diagnosis for an individual. Fostering healthy family relationships during difficult transitions can help family members adjust to their new norm as a system. Changes in behaviors can often be seen most prominently within the context of the family. Family therapy can be helpful in navigating these life changes.

Some of the benefits of family counseling are as follows:
  • Improve Communication: Communication is key in healthy relationships, and can be difficult to attain. A family therapist can help individuals learn to communicate effectively with one another by creating a space where open, honest conversations can happen.
  • Conflict Resolution: Learning to handle conflict in a productive manner can improve relationships within the family. Therapists can help families to enhance their problem solving skills by providing new techniques a family system can use to deal with conflict.
  • Family Resiliency: Improving coping skills can help families become more resilient and stable in the face of inevitable challenges that will rise. Family therapists often teach helpful coping skills that the family can use to strengthen the system as a whole.
  • Create Support: Family therapy can help members learn how to best support one another based on individualized needs. Family bonds are often strengthened through family therapy sessions.
  • Identify Family Patterns: Within a family system, an individual’s behavior can affect the entire system. Family members can identify unproductive family patterns or dynamics, and make adjustments with the help of the therapist.

In addition to individual therapy, we offer family therapy at Bethel Haven. We would love to help you and your family build healthy relationship dynamics with one another through family therapy. 
14 Comments
Sariah Meagle link
3/21/2019 04:46:49 am

My daughter and her father need to improve their communication more. I suppose if we go to a family counselor, my conflict with my son will be resolved. I'm glad that you mentioned that it would create support within ourselves as well so I might suggest it to everyone before we find a counselor.

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Millie Hue link
5/14/2019 10:07:00 pm

Thanks for helping me understand that a therapist will be able to help us have better communication. As you said, they are going to teach us to effectively communicate which can make the conversation open. With that in mind, I will be hiring one to help our family have better relationships. The issue all started when I started dating another guy after their dad died.

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David Johnson link
5/28/2019 03:44:47 pm

Thank you for putting communication is key in healthy relationships and it can be difficult to attain. Personally, I think that any way to improve communication with family would be worth the cost because they are the most important part of life. I'll have to look into counseling for me and my family.

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Mia Stewart link
8/7/2019 02:48:47 pm

I like how the article explains that family counseling can help to improve communication between family members and create a space for safe open conversations. My family has been having a lot of difficulties communicating recently and I am wanting to help us become better at it. Maybe we will look into family counseling.

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Charlotte Fleet link
12/30/2020 06:32:50 pm

My parents want to enroll our family in counseling together. I like how you said that family counseling helps to improve relationships within the family. I will be sure to recommend that my mom choose a counseling service that can help us strengthen the relationships in our family.

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Mental Health Therapist California link
5/12/2021 04:09:01 am

Thanks for sharing those family counseling benefits with us. Counseling is the best thing for those who are suffering from any mental health issue. There is mental health therapist available for proper counseling of their patients.In a family, if someone is facing mental health issues then the atmosphere of the whole house and the family members is disturbed. So taking family counseling is a good thing and through this, the family will live together happily.

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kate hansen link
8/31/2021 06:38:16 pm

I like how you said that it can improve communication. My husband and I were wondering if we should try therapy for our family. I appreciate you helping me learn more about the benefits of family counseling!

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Jeff Carbine link
1/6/2022 07:26:50 pm

I loved when you said that significant life changes can bring conflict, confusion, and uncertainty to a family system, uprooting consistency and stability. Family counseling is a great resource to process difficult circumstances as a unit. My sister is not in good relation with her husband, and she is in her hard times right now. I would suggest that she visit a family law attorney to give her the best advice on what to do. It is for her best interest and her children.

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Hailey Miller link
1/19/2022 03:06:30 am

Thanks for pointing out that a therapist can help families communicate effectively with one another. My husband and I are having petty fights every day. I guess we should look for a family therapist on Monday who can allow us to speak our minds with one another so we can understand how we feel.

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Victoria Addington link
1/19/2022 03:08:48 am

I am most captivated when you wrote that a family therapist can assist individuals learn to communicate effectively with one another by forming a space where open, honest discussions can happen. My friend's family is on the verge of being broken since a loved one passed away. I think it's helpful to get counseling from a family therapist as an attempt save their family.

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Olivia Smart link
2/24/2022 01:38:56 pm

Thank you for explaining that family therapy can help you with identifying family patterns or dynamics that are unproductive. My husband and I have been having some problems with parenting our teenage kids, and we've been wondering if there's something we can do differently. It seems like therapy could help us with identifying things we should change.

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Eli Richardson link
4/25/2022 03:55:46 pm

Wow, it really helped when you explained how we could benefit from family counseling services. Recently, my brother mentioned how he's been under a lot of stress at work, and it's affecting his relationship with his family. I believe that my brother could get a little too upset during a discussion, so I think reading your tips could help him. Thank you for the advice on family counseling and how a therapist could help a family communicate in an effective way.

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Pinkham & Associates link
7/19/2022 03:03:03 pm

Fostering healthy family relationships during difficult transitions can help family members adjust to their new norm as a system. Thank you, amazing post!

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Moshtael Family Law link
7/19/2022 03:21:29 pm

Family members can identify unproductive family patterns or dynamics, and make adjustments with the help of the therapist. Thank you for making this such an awesome post!

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