Family therapy services in 61341: Marseilles, IL. Relationship and couples counseling.

You might seek family therapy in response to a stressful event or situation such as death of a loved one, divorce, a change in family structure, problems with one of the children, or perhaps you are having problems communicating. Collaboration among family members is an important goal of family therapy, as is improvement in connection, improved communication, and a mindset of problem solving rather than blaming one individual in the family.

Family counseling is useful for many difficulties that are normal for families to experience. Counseling can help improve communication, resolve conflicts, rejuvenate relationships, and create effective systems. Sessions may also involve topics such as finances, addiction, mental illness, grief, anger or other difficulties the family is specifically experiencing. Your counselor will help guide your family to more effective skills and knowledge to create positive connections and resilience in stressful times. Sessions may involve all family members or just those who are most appropriate to attend. Family counseling is a short-term service that ideally will last six or less months.

Family relationships can change over time and can become difficult to negotiate. Over time, relationships can face challenges for a variety of reasons including children entering their "teen years", or when a loved one is facing addiction, behavioral and/or mental health challenges. Sometimes the family relationships are not "in crisis", but family members would like to have more fulfilling relationships with each other. Learn how to communicate more effectively with each other, learn coping skills and ways to effectively parent children with loving discipline and boundaries.

Family therapy focuses on improving communication and interaction in family system. This counseling commonly involves, but is not limited to, identifying parental dynamics that effect children, or vice versa. Sessions can include the family as a whole, or focus on individual therapy for the child/adolescent. The core goal of family counseling is to improve the psychological health of the whole family. Families can benefit from counseling when dealing with issues such as sibling conflict, addiction, illness, depression, financial stress and many more.

Kari Hunter is a licensed family therapist with over 25 years of experience. Whether your family has young children, teens, or adult children, Kari has worked with all types of problems. Families can benefit from family therapy when there is school performance problems, sibling rivalry, divorce or re-marriage transitions, or parenting differences. In many cases, insurance covers family therapy.

Our family affects who we are and who we become, for better or worse. From family, we learn beliefs, habits, communication, emotions, behaviors, and how to view the world around us. Anyone seeking healthier, closer family relationships can benefit from family therapy. There are countless reasons why family therapy is helpful, and many believe that every family should receive this. No family is perfect. Family therapy is can address family conflict or problems and heal wounds. Research shows many positive benefits from family therapy such as reduced conflict, better communication, healthy boundaries, increased cohesion, and improved problem solving. Please contact us for help!