Viviana Jancso - Mindset Psychology Consulting

Family Therapy

Our family and the dynamics in families affects who we are and who we become. From our family, we learn our habits, customs and rituals, and how to view and observe the world around us. We also learn how to love and how to interact with others from these first important relationships.

If we are born into a healthy family with healthy relationships, we are likely to learn how to maintain healthy relationships. If we are born into a dysfunctional family that struggles to connect, we may also struggle to connect with others.

While it is unlucky to be born into a dysfunctional family, it’s not an unchangeable situation. Nearly all families deal with some sort of dysfunction at one time or another, yet most families retain or regain a sense of wholeness and happiness.

Family therapy offers families a way to do this—a way to develop or maintain a healthy, functional family. Family therapy or family counselling is designed to address specific issues that affect the psychological health of the family, such as major life transitions or mental health conditions. It may be used as the primary mode of treatment or as a complementary approach.

The Benefits of Family Counselling

Families can benefit from therapy when they experience any stressful event that may strain family relationships, such as financial hardship, separation, or the death of a family member. In addition, it can be effective in treating mental health concerns that impact the family as a whole, such as depression, substance abuse, chronic illness, and food issues, or everyday concerns, like communication problems, interpersonal conflict, or behavioural problems in children and adolescents.

Family counselling aims to promote understanding and collaboration among family members in order to solve the problems of one or more individuals.

Family Therapy Approaches

Most forms of family counselling borrow heavily from systems theory, though there are others based on psychological approaches such as experiential, cognitive-behavioural, and psychodynamic. Family systems therapy contends that the internal dynamics of the family system can produce and sustain problematic behaviours in family members. All family therapy approaches are designed to help families improve communication, problem-solving, and coping skills, and enhance their sense of connection to one another.

Book an Appointment for Family Therapy in Perth

We treat patients from all over Perth for Family Therapy. To make an appointment please call or email us and we will get back to you as soon as we can.