We all start life with a family composed of our blood relatives and those who have become members of our family through marriage. Family influences every aspect of our lives, from our first moments to our last.
Our family affects who we are and who we become, both for better and for worse. We learn our vocabulary, habits, customs, and rituals and how to perceive and observe the world around us.
We also learn how to love, how to interact with others from these first important family relationships. If we are born into a healthy functional family with healthy relationships, we are likely to learn how to maintain such relationships ourselves. However, if we are born into a dysfunctional family that struggles to connect and communicate. We may also experience these difficulties ourselves.
However, it is important to remember that this situation is absolutely changeable. Nearly all families deal with some sort of dysfunction or significant challenge at one time or another, yet most families retain or regain a sense of wholeness and happiness.
Family counselling offers a way to do this – a way to develop or maintain a healthy functional family unit.
We help many families with the following issues:
- Major transition
- Mental or behavioural health problems
- Behavioural or emotional problems in children or adolescents
- LGBT issues
- Domestic violence
- Infertility
- Substance abuse by a family member
- Sexual abuse
- Grief and bereavement
- Illness in the family
- Parent-child relationship,
- The evolution of the traditional family unit in the modern world and the pressures and challenges it faces
- Objection and acceptance of love marriage and spouse not chosen by family
- Multicultural relationship issues