ADULT FAMILY THERAPY
We believe every family has the potential to heal and thrive.
Our families are influenced by generations of strengths as well as traumas. They are made up of differing beliefs, identities, values and cultural influences which can either bond or divide members of a family.
Each family member has personal agency and the potential to positively influence each relationship. Fear and shame are the most detrimental barriers that keep family relationships from healing.
This isn’t an easy process and it takes courage to try family therapy. After years of similar family patterns and roles, change might be slow and frustrating at times. But at O2 Counseling, we have seen willing families benefit from this experience and go onto having more fullfilling family relationships.
Adult Family Therapy focused on what matters to all of you:
FREQUENT FAMILY CONFLICT or DIFFERENCES
Do you find family gatherings more tense than joyful, with unresolved wounds between specific family members? This friction and tension affects genuine connections and shared happiness within the entire family.
Family therapy addresses tensions and hurt, facilitating curiosity to understand one another’s perspective and let go of judgment and guardedness. Our family therapists explore and clarify each family member’s contributions in the conflict patterns and encourage each family member make choices that will heal the relationship.
DEATH OF FAMILY MEMBER
Is the pain of losing a family member making it difficult for your family to find stability and connection? Are unresolved family wounds resurfacing and creating intense conflict or estrangement?
Family therapy for grief offers space for each family member to share their individual grief and after-effects with one another for deeper understanding to begin to make sense of a new way the family will need to restructures itself with new meanings, identities and dynamics.
FAMILY ESTRANGEMENT
Are you grappling with the pain of estrangement within your family? This cut-off can lead to a profound sense of loss and questioning.
Family therapy aims to explore the roots of the estrangement, offering a path towards understanding, reconciliation, or acceptance. It focuses on healing emotional wounds, addressing unresolved issues, and facilitating communication to bridge the gaps between estranged family members.
FAMILY CAREGIVING FOR AGING PARENTS
Does the responsibility of caring for aging parents feel overwhelming, creating tension among your parents or siblings? Navigating the complexities of caregiving can strain even the strongest family bonds.
Family therapy for caregiving challenges helps families distribute the caregiving responsibilities more equitably, address emotional and logistical challenges, and ensure that the care provided to aging parents strengthens family ties rather than causing division.
FAMILY LIFE TRANSITIONS
Are life transitions—such as moving, empty nesting, or the addition of new family members—disrupting your family's equilibrium, leaving members feeling disconnected or resistant to change? Adapting to new circumstances can test family unity and resilience.
Family therapy for life transitions offers guidance through these changes, providing strategies for adjustment, communication, and support. It helps families view transitions as opportunities for growth, enhancing their adaptability and cohesiveness.
CHRONIC or TERMINAL ILLNESS OF A FAMILY MEMBER
Is a family member's mental or physical illness casting a shadow over your family, with care demands, emotional stress, and uncertainty about the future? This situation can challenge the family's strength and coping mechanisms.
Family therapy for illness-related challenges provides support in navigating the complex emotions and responsibilities, fostering open communication about fears and needs, and strengthening family bonds in facing the illness together.
FAMILY TRAUMA or SECRETS
Are secrets or traumatic events from the past affecting your family's present relationships and well-being, perhaps manifesting as trust issues, avoidance, or unresolved anger? Family trauma can have a lasting impact across generations.
Family therapy for trauma provides a confidential setting to address and heal from these experiences, facilitating a process of uncovering, understanding, and reconciling with past events to foster healing and prevent further harm.
FAMILY BUSINESS CONFLICT
Is a dispute or transition within the family business creating relational rifts, with financial pressures, professional disagreements or power dynamics spilling over into the personal family relationships?
Family therapy for family business-related conflict focuses on separating family roles from business roles including power dynamics that differ in each area. Family members gain insight into blended roles and construct clear role expectations as well as balancing relational power dynamics and unhealthy patterns that affect the business and family.
Ready to try Family Therapy?
Therapy for family relationship issues.
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SIBLINGS
Sibling relationships are often overlooked in their importance. Family therapy can help you work towards a more supportive sibling relationship that can bridge differences and heal childhood wounds.
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PARENT & ADULT
A parent-child bond is one of the most influential relationships in our lives. Family therapy can heal past wounds and cultivate a mutual bond for a healthier adult relationship.
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PARENT & EMERGING ADULT
The development of the parent/child relationship can be complicated, confusing and messy. Family therapy can help address changing roles and expectations for a healthier parent-child relationship for years to come.
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INLAWS
When you marry your partner, you also marry into a family that has different beliefs, expectations, boundaries or communication styles. Family therapy can help create understand and learn how to blend families.
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The overall length of family therapy or the number of sessions depends on several factors including:
- Types of issues and symptoms including severity, duration and frequency in the family
- The amount of effort everyone puts into change outside of sessions
- Financial or time limitations
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Your family therapist might have therapy sessions with individual family members during the course of therapy. However, the therapist will not work with any individual once family therapy has been completed.
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Most health insurance plans cover family therapy. Only one member of the family uses insurance for the sessions. Please check your coverage before beginning therapy to confirm benefits.
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Family therapy is $160 each session without insurance.
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If using insurance, each family therapy session is limited to 50-55 minutes.
If you are not using insurance, then you have more flexibility on the length of each session.