Overview
When To Seek Help
Therapeutic Modalities
Overview
Our Family influences us in every aspect of our life, as our interactions with our Family impact how we grow and develop at different Individual and Family Life Stages and how we perceive ourselves, others, and the world. Family issues include Individual and Family Life Stage related changes or Stressors of Family Members affecting Interactions among Family Members.
Family Therapy helps the family to strengthen the Family Unit by helping family members grow in Mutual Understanding, foster Deepen Connections, Improve Communication by having awareness of their Interactional Patterns and Dynamics in the Family, Resolve Conflicts, and experience Healing and Reconciliation from Past Hurts and Unresolved Issues.
Family Therapy helps the family to strengthen the Family Unit by helping family members grow in Mutual Understanding, foster Deepen Connections, Improve Communication by having awareness of their Interactional Patterns and Dynamics in the Family, Resolve Conflicts, and experience Healing and Reconciliation from Past Hurts and Unresolved Issues.


When To Seek Help
Families may consider Family Therapy when challenges within the home begin to feel overwhelming or persist despite efforts to resolve them. Family Therapy can provide support in navigating difficult Family Life Stage transitions, improving Family Relationships, and addressing Emotional or Behavioural Concerns that affect the whole family.You may benefit from Family Therapy when there are:
Frequent Conflicts
When Family conversations often lead to Tension, Misunderstandings, or Repetitive Arguments.
Recurring Negative Communication Patterns
Repeating Negative Cycles of Blame, Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Avoidance within Family members.
Communication Breakdowns
Struggles to express Thoughts and Feelings openly and Share Experiences within the Family. There may be Alliances and Coalitions formed within the Family and this exacerbates a communication breakdown within their Family Unit.
Physical and Emotional Distance within the Family
The Family Members feel Isolated, Unheard, or Emotionally Withdrawn from one another or with One or Some of the Family Members and this Emotional Distancing disrupts the Family Unit and Dynamics.
Stress or Behavioural Struggles in a Family Member
When One Family Member’s Stress, e.g. Caregiver to a Family Member with Mental Illness, affects the whole Family Unit and Dynamics.
Unresolved Past Hurts, Trauma, or Grief
When Family Members experience Past Traumatic Incidents in their Childhood and this impacts their Adulthood Family Life Stage and Family Relationships.
Parenting or Co-Parenting Challenges
When raising Children feels Overwhelming or leads to recurring tension within the Family or from Step-Families.
Major Family Life Stage Transitions
Changes like Divorce, Remarriage, Illness, Relocation, or other Family Life Stage Transitions that impact Family Stability.

Therapeutic Modalities
Family Therapy utilizes various therapeutic approaches to address relational dynamics and strengthen family connections.These may include:
Systemic Marital and Family Therapy
Systemic Therapy with Children, Youth, and their Families
Emotion Focused Therapy
Sandplay Therapy
Sandtray Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy using Symbol Work
Expressive Arts Therapy for Enhancing Couple and Family Connections
Structural Family Therapy
Strategic Family Therapy
Bowen Family Systems Theory
Milan and Post Milan Systemic Family Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Child-Centred Play Therapy
Mindfulness Therapy
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Satir Therapy
Trauma Focused Therapy
Attachment Focused Therapy
Grief Therapy