Functional Family Therapy

Functional Family Therapy is a form of therapy that helps your family navigate the issues that are deeply personal to your family unit. Functional family therapy can help to keep your family together, manage problems that impact the entire family, and provide family members with the skills to cope with issues that might arise in the future.

Rather than focusing on the issues or concerns of one person, our functional family counseling sessions strive to identify and address problems that affect, or could affect, everyone in the family.

How Functional Family Therapy can help you?

Functional Family therapy helps families overcome real issues that affect their everyday life. Many families fall apart because they don’t seek help to save their relationships.

Undergoing our functional family therapy group sessions teaches family members how to manage their emotions, behaviors, thoughts, feelings, and words to navigate these important and valuable relationships.

Some of the topics often discussed during a session include:

• Conflict between parents and children
• Conflict between children
• Behavior issues at home or school
• Parental substance abuse
• Child substance abuse
• Depression and anxiety
• Blended family transitions and growth
• Mental illness
• Eating disorders
• Major life transitions including death, divorce, moving, financial issues, and even pet loss.

Our therapy objectives include, but are not limited to:

• Understand the issues your family is struggling with
• Reduce negativity, hostility and blaming between family members, while providing hope that change is possible
• Find specific ways to change the problems/behaviors that are challenges to your family
• Use specific techniques and build upon your family’s strengths to increase functioning in your family
• Develop a plan to prevent relapse into problem behavioral patterns
• Find and/or develop supports to maintain the positive changes made in therapy