Family Therapy

Family counselling helps you to understand and cope better with the stresses and strains of family life. Families can be a source of support, encouragement and love but sometimes relationships within families are put under strain and family members feel isolated or overlooked.

Family therapy is recommended for a range of issues:

• Facilitating resolution of conflicts that families (or individuals within that family) have not been able to handle effectively on their own
• Helping families cope with the impact of divorce or seperation
• Helping families deal with new challenges such as step-family formation or serious illness
• Allowing a family to understand, assist and support someone with a psychological health issue

Part of the goal of the therapist is to observe interactions between family members. Another part is to observe the perception of non-interacting family members. Thus if two family members get into an argument in a session, the therapist might want to know how the other family members are dealing with the disagreement or the way in which the two fighting members comport themselves.

In addition to observation, the therapist often helps the family reflect on better ways of communicating with each other. So family counselling may in part be instruction and encouragement. In fact, family counselling often teaches family members new and more positive ways to communicate to replace old, negative communication patterns.

Observations may also be used to point out how poor communication, especially when particularly filled with strife, affects the behavior and happiness of children. Children benefit from the safe forum of a session. They may get to for discuss the things they don’t like about behavior of caregivers and/or siblings. Such discussion might not be permitted in the home setting.

For more information please contact Alliance on +65 6466 8120 or email admin@alliancecounselling.com.sg

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