Family Therapy

Jodie has over 20 years experience working with families with all different dynamics, presentations and ages.

 

Family Therapy is a form of treatment that is designed to address specific issues affecting the health and functioning of a family. It can be used to help a family through a difficult period, a major transition or when a member of the family is experiencing mental health issues, emotional distress or behavioural problems.

Family Problems can manifest in the healthiest of families, resulting in challenging, frustrating, and painful interactions among family members. From little irritations to buried resentments, from dramatic arguments to feelings of guilt, disappointment, and anger we did not even know we had, our families often bring up the most intense emotional experience, for better or worse.

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The benefits of Family Therapy include:

• Better understanding of healthy boundaries and family patterns and dynamics

• Enhanced communication

• Improved problem solving

• Deeper empathy

• Reduced conflict

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Common problems families experience that can be treated by a Family Therapist include:

• Family relationships and changes in family life

• Child and adolescent mental health

• Adult mental health

• Parenting issues

• Couple relationships

• Supporting family members through separation, mediation and divorce

• Child and adolescent behaviour and mental health problems

• Emotional disorders including anxiety, depression and grief following bereavement

• Anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders

• Supporting family members in step-family life

• Social policy e.g. child protection, fostering, adoption and children in care

• Domestic violence

• Supporting children, young people and adults post-trauma