Family Counselling Services in Baldonnel, BC.

Trobak Holistic Counselling's approach to family therapy is: 1. Understand why a family is struggling. 2. Working with each family member individually and exploring their life experiences as well as their roles in the family. 3. Working with the parents to see what previous experiences from their childhood they are bringing into the family. 4. Helping parents, and all members resolve past trauma or unresolved issues.

Family dynamics can be a complicated and sensitive balance within a home. This can be made increasingly complicated by divorce, blended families, individual parenting, spiritual values, health issues and much more. Counseling can provide family members a neutral voice and a place to be heard when fighting and arguing is impacting daily functioning and happiness, of one or more family members. We also help develop necessary tools to resolve conflict in a healthy way, bringing peace and harmony back to everyday lives.

Families who are finding it difficult to communicate in a respectful and healthy way benefit from cognitive behavioural programs. Parents and their children learn how to be flexible in their thinking, manage their emotions and moderate their behaviour. Children learn their role in the family, how to stay out of the middle and how to cope with family stress.

Today family can mean different things to different people. Each family structure is challenged with their own set of difficulties and problems. Whether you are a blended family, single parent family due to divorce or loss, adoptive family, same sex parents, or traditional, we recognize family dynamics can be complicated. Together we will work to develop strong communication skills between each family member, while nurturing and solidifying the family unit. We will work to overcome conflict, heal the wounds of the past, build parenting skills and create a safe environment where all family members can be heard.

Most family therapists inadvertently create more chaos through their well-intentioned efforts to assist a family move through a change process. Why? Brains are inherently deregulated (all of us, may I add) and most talking and dialoguing misses brain-centric problems that need more intensive help. Many times the emotional trauma created by years of solving problems ineffectively can wreak havoc on the brain's parasympathetic nervous system, not ever giving the family a break from flight or fight thinking. Contact us for an innovative neuroscience solution to family dysfunction. Kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.

Despite the best intentions of ourselves and our family members, we are often tangled in patterns of invalidation, rejection, frustration and blame. It can feel so messy that we operate in a constant state of fear and a crippling sense of unworthiness. I’ve worked as a family therapist for 6 years. I offer a safe and non-judgmental space for all voices to be respectfully heard, while helping to identify bigger ‘systems’ patterns that keep you stuck in pain and finger-pointing. I will help to smooth out communication, make room for wants and needs and to heal the old wounds.

Family relationships can be complex. Relationships can be disrupted following changes like the addition of a new family member, adult or child, separation, divorce, or the creation of a newly blended family. Adolescents sometimes struggle to reconnect with parents or siblings during the shift to independence. Counselling can be individual, pairs, or the whole family. Many families experience dysfunctional communication at some point. Counselling focuses on improving positive relationship patterns, so that all family members feel valued. Therapy focuses on regaining that sense of wholeness, and happiness that identifies healthy, functional family life. 250.793.7676 finding.balance.counselling@gmail.com