Family Therapy

 
 

Family has an enormous impact on who you are as a person. Those who raise you and who you grow up with influence your habits, your language and how you speak, your rituals, how you love and accept love, and how you see yourself and your perception of the outside world. If you grew up in a relatively stable, emotionally healthy family, you likely have functional, supportive adult relationships. If your family was more on the dysfunctional side, your relationships and connections now may be more challenging or difficult to manage.  If your family has been struggling, there is hope for a more harmonious future with your loved ones. 

Your Family Is Unique, Your Therapy Should Be Too

Each family has its own specific struggles, and ThriveWell therapists understand how to adjust their therapeutic approach according to your needs. Over the past few years, due to the worldwide pandemic, there has been enormous pressure put on all kinds of relationships, including connections with relatives. Differences of opinions, shifting of caregiving duties, health concerns and death have impacted many families. While some families have grown closer, others have become divided, experienced trauma, or have felt deep losses. These challenges have rippled across both biological and chosen family circles.

ThriveWell Family Therapists Offer Support For the Following:

  • Communication 

  • Blended families

  • Navigating differing opinions on challenging subjects (politics, religion, medical choices)

  • Parenting and parent/child relationships

  • Neurodiversity within the home

  • Separation and divorce

  • Aging family members

  • Grief or loss

  • Hoarding

  • School struggles

  • Recovering from domestic abuse

  • Substance abuse 

  • Adult children moving back to the family home

  • Life transitions

The Benefits Of Family Therapy

If your family has been struggling, know that finding connection and increased contentment in family life is possible. Family therapy helps folks who have been struggling to learn to reconnect and feel more whole and supported. Therapy can guide you towards developing and maintaining understanding, support and healthy dynamics in your relationships with your loved ones. 

Seeing a trained family therapist can help with both new and recurring issues, it can support loved ones going through a change or transition (such as divorce, a challenging health or mental health diagnosis, a family member opening up about being part of the LGBTQ2S community, a big move, or death). ThriveWell counsellors can help identify the main issues and  challenges in (or for) your family and take a look at the dynamics within your family that might not be functioning well for you, given these challenges. By recognizing and becoming aware of the patterns or dynamics that aren’t working, there is the possibility of new opportunities and new choices. 

Changing habits and patterns that have been happening for months or years may seem impossible, but if just one or two people within a group are willing to take the steps needed, the whole family dynamic will feel a positive impact! Connecting with a therapist as a family during this process of change is a great way to feel supported should you want to talk about feelings that are coming up, or to share the impact that the shifting dynamics may be having on you.

Getting Started With Family Therapy

Your family therapy journey will begin with a consultation to ensure that you have the right therapist for your specific needs. Currently we have two therapists with specialized family therapy training, this means you will be speaking to either Luiza or Dana during your consultation. Your consultation is a time where you can ask any questions you have about their approaches to therapy. 

Once you have decided to move forward with family counselling, you’ll begin with an intake session. This session is where your therapist will learn about your family history, your family’s current goals and struggles, impactful events in the past, and how you feel about, and relate to one another. Once your therapist has enough information, then a decision will be made about how often sessions will occur and then each time you meet, more communication, connection and learning will happen. 

Over the course of several sessions you may find that you can connect better with your loved ones, and are able to give and receive support with more understanding and compassion. 

Are You Ready To Start Family Therapy?

If you know that now is the right time to begin family therapy sessions, your next step is to reach out and book your free consultation. To do so, please reach out through the contact form below. We will reach out with an option to self-book a Meet & Greet Consultation, or to work with you at identifying the right therapist fit for you and your family’s needs.