Family Counseling

Some benefits of family therapy include:

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Learning to Be Differentiated

Differentiation is the ability to recognize that you are an individual who is responsible for your own emotions within your family unit. It is important to balance differentiation with the ability to stay close to your family unit; at times, you may be unbalanced. You could be unbalanced by being too self-absorbed and disconnected from your family. Another possibility is being overly connected and fused to your family. Bowenian family therapy can help you find this balance.

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Reshaping Conflict

Family therapy can help people find a healthier way to deal with conflict by recognizing their emotions and learning to separate them from other people in the family. This can reshape how these conflicts go, as it will help you take responsibility for what you can address. Family therapy can teach couples some fair fighting rules to work through emotions in the family. 

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Healthier Boundary Setting

Family therapy can help you to learn how to set healthy boundaries in your family. The techniques and work you put in will help you learn how to do this and create a safe space for yourself and those you love. Beyond your family, this family therapy will also help you set healthy boundaries in your personal relationships.

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Understanding Your Family’s Patterns

Family therapy will help you to learn how your family has historically operated more clearly.

By recognizing how your family naturally interacts, you can begin to change how you interact with them in the future. This can help break the hurt cycles that keep recurring within the family unit. It may surprise you how this insight can change things for you and your family.

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Going Beyond Your Expected Role

Family therapy helps us to step beyond the roles we are expected to play in our family. An example of a role in our family is a peacemaker. The peacemaker in the family learns to monitor emotions and help to comfort others. However, when a child has this role, emotional fusion is highly likely. Family therapy can help the peacemaker learn to be kind to others without taking responsibility for their emotions.

 

Disrupting the Family Projection Process

The family projection process is how parents project their issues onto their child. Family therapy aims to stop the parents from projecting their issues by pointing out what is happening and offering alternative ways for the family to function. These corrections can be challenging because the patterns existed for a long time.