Online Family Therapy
Family therapy is meant to help foster change and encourage development in relationships between family members.
The family therapist's job is to facilitate communication to strengthen and improve the existing attachments between family members.
Whether your family is composed of blood relatives, adopted parents, a close-knit neighborhood, or a foster family, family influences every aspect of our lives. Our family influences who we are and who we become, for better and for worse.
We learn our vocabulary, habits, and our worldview from our families. If we are part of a healthy family with healthy relationships, we are likely to learn how to maintain healthy relationships. If we are part of a dysfunctional family that struggles to connect, we may find it challenging to communicate with others.
At Winding Road Therapy Group, we recognize that no matter what your family struggles are, it’s not an unchangeable situation. Most families deal with dysfunction at one time or another, yet most families maintain or recapture a sense of happiness and wellbeing.Family therapy offers families a way to reconnect, develop better relationships, and create a more functional family.
Online family therapy can be useful when you encounter the following issues:
Family relationships/changes in family life
Parenting issues
Trauma/Attachment
Work stress
Parenting skills
Chronic health problems
Suppor for family members through separation, mediation and divorce
Child and adolescent behavior
Supporting family members in step-family life
Emotional abuse or violence
Financial problems
Self-harm
Drug, alcohol, and another substance misuse
Professionals often utilize multiple therapies: supportive family therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and systemic family therapy.
Online Supportive Family Therapy is often used to help family members express their feelings regarding a problem affecting the entire family. This type of online family therapy provides a safe and secure environment where everyone can express their feelings. Online supportive family therapy provides an opportunity for families to talk openly about the issues troubling them and gives a chance for the therapist to offer practical guidance.
Online Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) therapy attempts to change the way people think or behave to alleviate the problem. Your online CBT therapist may assign individual family members with homework assignments to complete, or specific behavioral applications might be drawn up.
Systemic Family Therapy emphasizes the feelings of the whole family. Online systemic family therapy tries to identify the problems within the family dynamic, as well as the beliefs and attitudes of the entire family to uncover what may be going on with the family as a whole. As the therapist understands these areas, they attempt to shift the attitudes, relationships and presenting concerns to a more advantageous, less damaging, or simply more realistic position.
