Family Counseling
Family counseling offers a safe and structured environment where families work with a trained therapist to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen relationships. It addresses a range of issues such as parenting challenges, sibling rivalry, blended family dynamics, behavioral problems, and major life transitions like divorce or loss. Therapists facilitate open dialogue and guide families in understanding each other’s perspectives, promoting empathy and collaboration. Through evidence-based techniques such as systemic therapy, cognitive-behavioral approaches, and experiential exercises, family counseling aims to foster healthier interactions and mutual support. The process empowers families to build resilience, enhance problem-solving skills, and create a more cohesive family unit, ultimately improving overall well-being and harmony within the family system.
Symptoms & signs of family issues
- Continual arguing and bickering
- Inability to communicate effectively
- Anger management issues
- Unwillingness to listen when someone is expressing concerns
- Physical altercations
How it affects you:
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Emotional fatigue
- Work performance suffers
- Other relationships suffer
When is it time to get help?
Perhaps you’ve tried talking with your family, but the same patterns and negative behaviour gets repeated. If you feel that your family is controlling, judgmental, dysfunctional, or making you feel badly about yourself or sad, or maybe you feel that you are a contributor to the dysfunction, it’s time to get some help.
Treatment method for family issues
- Family systems therapy looks at the family as a one emotional unit. This therapeutic approach looks at the relationships within the family and the structure as a whole.
- Structural family therapy involves looking at the structures within the family unit. Changing the underlying structure tends to cause a ripple effect on the family. This therapy analyzes the hierarchical structure, subsystems and boundaries within the family.
- Strategic family therapy is a type of therapy where the therapist is a problem-solver and focuses on finding solutions to client’s challenges.
- Adlerian therapy
What will I get out of treatment with Insight Psychological?
You will come away with an understanding of the dynamics in your own family, and the role you play in it. You can learn about healthy boundaries, problem solving, healthy and effective communication and learn how to reduce conflicts. Contact us to learn more information or to book an appointment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Counselling is a process between an individual and their counsellor that helps the individual to overcome difficulties and change maladaptive or unhealthy emotional, behavioural or cognitive aspects. This leads to a more adaptive pattern of thought and behaviour and a satisfactory change in the individual. Thus, Counselling is an enabling process that provides alternative ways to think, feel and behave in a healthier manner.
It is a common myth that, Counselling is only for people who are very disturbed. In fact, counselling can be helpful for any person, who can think, feel and behave appropriately most of the times but sometimes, may require help to enhance, develop, change or improve his/her condition. Students, working professionals, couples, parents may seek counselling for different issues.
When a person experiences negative emotions such as sadness, hopelessness, frequent worrying, difficulty in daily functioning for a significant period of time and cannot cope with it, then they can visit the Counsellor by taking a prior appointment. Some of the concerns with which people approach a counsellor are prolonged sadness, worry, anxiety, indecisiveness, anger, lethargy, procrastination, addictions and so on.
Any concern or experience, from an everyday concern to a unique circumstance or situation can constitute a reason to seek help from a Counsellor. Counselling addresses concerns across many life stages, events and circumstances.
Common reasons why students have sought counselling include:
- Relationship difficulties such as frequent fights, extramarital affairs, sexual worries, loss of intimacy
- Academic problems, procrastination, difficulty keeping to deadlines, low confidence
- Distress related to peer relationships, dealing with rejection
- Illness, grief and loss
- Life transition and adjustment issues
- Personal growth and understanding
- Addiction related issues
- Sexuality and gender identity
- Anxiety, Depression, Stress
- Decision related to marriage and commitment
- Separation or divorce
- Loneliness
- Violence and abuse in relationship
Only your counsellor would know of this. For all those who seek counselling, confidentiality is maintained regarding their personal information, which is not disclosed to any person, group or authority without his/her consent. In case of emergency such as, when someone is feeling overwhelmed and maybe suicidal, the person listed as their emergency contact will be reached.
Sometimes a counsellor may share details about a session or a client with a team member or their supervisor to gain clarity, and seek suggestions on the way forward. This is done without divulging personal details of the client such as their name, course in which they are studying etc. It is done for enhancing to quality of the service and for the benefit of the client. This is termed as shared confidentiality.
Counselling is a process in which the individual and the counsellor work towards a common goal which is beneficial for the individual. This can lead to a satisfactory and beneficial change in the thoughts, feelings and behaviour of the individual. It can enable them to cope with unmanageable situations in the best way possible. The process helps to enhance the overall well-being of the individual.
The duration of the Counselling process differs for each individual. It depends on the complexity of the concerns that the individual has and his/her participation in the process. On an average, counselling sessions can extend between 2-6 sessions.