Family therapy consists of family members jointly attending session to resolve a family situation. Family therapy sessions are designed to help resolve family concerns, enhance communication, provide tools to assist with conflicts between parent and children, or the impact of substance abuse or mental illness on the entire family. In this session the therapist explores the family ability to solve problems and express thoughts and emotions in a nonconfrontational manner. The therapist also examines what the roles are in the family, rules, behavior patterns and identifies the family’s strengthens and or weaknesses.
Therapy focusing on the family as one unit and supports all family members to resolve problems. The premise being, what happens to one family member affects everyone in the family. Types of family problems are conflicts related to job loss, illness, disability, addiction, finances, school problems, teenage issue, disrespect, anger problems, divorce, and infidelity
