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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. 
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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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