Systemic Family Therapy

Systemic Family Therapy enables family members to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on family strengths, and work together to make useful changes in their relationships and their lives. Every family is a bit like a human body. Sometimes it feels great, and things work well. Sometimes even small things can feel like a huge challenge. When we hurt one part of our body, every part can be affected in some way. But all the parts of the body can work together to help if a bone gets broken, or if there is an infection. So systemic therapy helps family members to work together when something is hurting, or just feeling out of sorts. It is not always necessary for the whole family to join sessions and different members may join different sessions at different times. It can be useful to initially spend some time with parents before inviting children into the space, although this depends on the focus of the work and the age of the child/children. All this will be agreed and discussed with the family at every session. Sessions typically last for around an hour, sometimes extending to an hour and a quarter if the time is needed.