Family Counseling strengthens family bonds
Family counseling helps families navigate and resolve conflicts, creating healthier relationships and a more stable home environment.
What is family counseling?
Family counseling is designed to address the challenges and complexities of everyday family life. Also known as marriage and family therapy (MFT), it aims to improve communication and resolve underlying conflicts within the family that may lead to family dysfunction.
“Family counseling” and “family therapy” are often used interchangeably and may also incorporate conflict resolution as well as marriage counseling or couples therapy.
When should you consider family therapy?
Is your family dealing with constant fighting, communication breakdowns, or emotional distance? Do you have unresolved tensions between different household members?
Conflict can occur because of ongoing issues (such as a family business) or may be sparked by a life change (such as separation or divorce, bereavement, job loss, new job, or family relocation).
Family strife is not uncommon, but you should not let these issues fester! Unfortunately, family conflict often does not heal itself but worsens with time and can have unintended ripple effects on the family.
What are the benefits of family therapy?
There are 5 main benefits to skilled family counseling:
Improved Communication: Expert family therapy enhances communication skills, fostering open and honest dialogue among family members.
Conflict Resolution: Counseling helps families navigate and resolve conflicts, leading to healthier relationships and a better home life.
Stronger Family Bonds: By addressing underlying issues, family counseling strengthens emotional connections.
Coping Strategies: Families learn effective coping mechanisms to manage stress, trauma, and life transitions together.
Enhanced Understanding: Counseling provides insights into each family member’s perspectives, fostering empathy and reducing misunderstandings.
What is the difference between family therapy and marriage counseling?
Family counseling and couples counseling are similar in that they both focus on relationships. However, technically, family counseling involves multiple family members or the whole family system. Family counseling can address different issues, including parenting challenges, sibling rivalry, and the impact of major life changes on the family.
On the other hand, marriage counseling, also known as couples therapy, focuses on two people who are in a relationship.
The question of whether you may need couples therapy or family therapy can be a blurred topic, especially when strife between two people spills over to impact the rest of the family.
After meeting with you, our skilled Marriage and Family Therapists will guide you on the appropriate therapy plan to help you and your family heal.
Do you need other kinds of specialized therapy for your family?
Mindfully also provides other forms of expert therapy services for your family, including marriage counseling, therapy for teens and children.
Why choose Mindfully for family counseling
Mindfully’s specially-trained marriage and family therapists (MFT) will create a safe space for you and your family members to have honest conversations, and mediating healthy conflict resolution. We will provide you with communication skills and tools to improve your relationship.
Find a family counselor that you can trust from our extensive list of skilled clinicians.
Is family counseling affordable?
Mindfully’s family therapy services are covered by most major insurance, Medicaid and Medicare.
We offer cost-effective self-pay rates for those who may not have insurance coverage.
We also provide low-cost family therapy offered by our supervised Clinical Residents for people who may not be able to afford out-of-network cost of care, or who have Medicaid coverage.
What To Expect In Family Counseling
Our intake assessment will match you and your family with a therapist who meets your needs. Therapy will start with a meeting with each individual one-on-one.
Our family therapy sessions are covered by most major insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare, and we have affordable self-pay rates.
