How Can A Therapist Help?

Clients benefit from the therapist’s professional viewpoint, their caring and sensitive insight, and the special skills they have developed over their years of training and experience.  Whether or not the concern is related to family or couple relationship, a systems therapist can help you see your problem from a new perspective and support your growth and change.

Working with you, the therapist will address a wide variety of relationship issues arising from living within the context of your family system. Beliefs, life skills, and ways of relating to others are learned in your family.

While marriage and family therapists do individual work they regularly involve other members of the family in treatment.   They often include parents, children, siblings and grandparents.

Sometimes we have trouble coping with the systems in which we live.  Schools, religious groups, communities and culture also are systems that influence behaviour.  Therapists often work in cooperation with other professionals in the community such as doctors, psychologists, teachers, welfare workers, clergy and probation officers.