Families are the key influence on our health and happiness. All families are unique, of course, but over time, many find themselves grappling with conflicts and strained relations, life transitions and loss, and mental health problems or drug abuse.
Please know that help is available and can make a tangible difference for your family.
Family Counseling at ODYSSEY COUNSELING
Family counseling can be a much-needed step in opening lines of communication, dealing with loss and grief, and adapting to a new normal, whether it's life after the move or any other significant change. It has the potential to help families emerge from conflict better than ever.
Whatever your family is experiencing, the professionals at ODYSSEY COUNSELING can help you find relief. The following may be helpful in Family Counseling to help you reach that point.
Improve Relationships – Whether you're seeking to ease the communication between family members living in the same house or working through complex relationships with extended or estranged family members, families can benefit from learning tools that help manage and mend these relationships in counseling.
Deal with challenging life and family changes – Family changes such as divorce or separation may cause emotional stress for both parents and children. Engaging a family therapist for family counseling sessions can help any family move through these shifts and develop healthy coping skills. Family counseling can be helpful during the process of blending families, aiding in the adjustments that family members must make when sharing a home.
Cope with Grief – The loss of a loved one, whether it is a parent, child, or sibling, can change everything for a family and is extremely emotionally costly to those who are left behind. Counseling can be a place for families to grieve and process their loss.
Enhance communication – Communication breakdowns are one of the primary sources of family conflict. Poor communication makes it difficult to set limits, understand what our loved ones want or need, and reach a resolution before issues become significant problems.
So, often when people don't feel heard and understood, conflicts escalate. Regardless of your family's age, the therapists at ODYSSEY COUNSELING can teach you all how to utilize positive communication skills.
Support struggling family members – When one family member is dealing with mental or behavioral health issues, substance abuse, and addiction, the entire family can be affected. A family counselor can help everyone work through these struggles and get to the root of the issues in a way that makes everyone feel heard and validated.
The counselors will also aid each member of the family system in recognizing how they are affected by the conflict and to learn healthier techniques for coping with this influence.
Begin Healing as a Family Now
Families are systems, and when someone in the system is hurting, the whole system is hurting. Family counseling considers the family as a system, and resolution can often be found by having all family members participate.
At ODYSSEY COUNSELING, we realize the first step in seeking counseling is often the most difficult. The value of family counseling can be far worth the initial fear, especially with our licensed family therapists leading the way.
Contact Odyssey counseling at 505-315-7397 to start your path toward healing as a family through family counseling.
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