Systemic Family Therapy
If your family is having a tough time communicating or dealing with conflicts, Family Counselling can help. Whether you’re experiencing family relationship issues, family mental health challenges, the loss of a loved one, addiction, divorce, or financial stress, Family Therapy offers a supportive space to work through these difficulties together.
Where the Individual Therapist works with one person, the Family Therapist views problems in the context of a family’s “system,” helping the family through its challenges. This is why Family Therapy is sometimes referred to as Systemic Therapy.
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If your brother, sister or anyone in your family is going through a tough time—it’s not just their problem alone. Their struggles can ripple through the entire family, affecting everyone in ways you might not even realise.
A Family Therapist focuses on both the individual and the whole family. They help everyone communicate and resolve, encouraging the family to heal and thrive as a unified group.
At Leone Centre, we provide family therapy sessions with highly experienced family therapists in London, UK, and around the globe. Whether via face-to-face in-person appointments or online family therapy sessions, we are committed to supporting families across the UK and worldwide.
What issues can Family Therapy help with?
Some issues a family may want to consider engaging the services of a professional Therapist for include:
- Communication between family members.
- Children or teenagers who are struggling.
- Family members who are estranged or isolated from the family unit.
- Parenting, co-parenting.
- Family experiencing illness, loss, grief and bereavement.
- Family going through divorce and separation.
- One or more family members struggling with stress.
- One or more people in your family struggle to function in their role and capacity.
- One person in the family experiencing trauma.
- Mental health, addiction, or eating disorders in the family.
- Family members with extreme emotional reactions.
How Family Therapy helps
Family Therapy has proven to be extremely helpful in many cases. Some of the benefits include:
- Improved understanding and forming of healthy boundaries and patterns within a family.
- Improved relationships and communication between family members.
- Increased empathy between family members.
- Reduced conflict within the family by gaining anger management, emotional regulation and conflict resolution skills.
- Greater transparency between family members.
- Restored trust, support, and forgiveness between family members.
- Reuniting family members who have been isolated or have been isolating themselves.
- Managing extreme emotional reactions by family members.
- Improve overall family functioning.
- Healing from trauma within the family.
- Addressing mental health, eating disorders, or addiction within the family unit.
How Family Therapy Works
The Leone Centre Family Counselling approach guides families through overcoming challenges that impact their relationships, life changes, and emotional well-being. Family Counselling can help family members enhance communication and address issues within the family framework.
In Family Therapy, the key focus is on connections between family members. Systemic Family Therapists work with the complexities of familial relationships and dynamics to bridge the gaps hindering understanding, improve open communication, and cultivate harmonious conflict resolution. The Leone Centre offers Family Counselling both in person in London and online in the UK and worldwide.
The goals of Family Therapy
The main goal of Systemic Family Counselling is to heal any relational, mental, emotional, or psychological problems within a family. While specific goals depend on the unique circumstances of each family, the goals commonly include:
- Developing and maintaining healthy boundaries within a family.
- Improving communication and relationships, assisting family members in better understanding family dynamics.
- Dealing with and overcoming family relationship issues.
Developing other goals involves:
- Examining how interactional patterns within a family contribute to psychopathology.
- Activating the family’s internal resources.
- Improving the family’s problem-solving abilities.
- Providing psychoeducation to family members.
- Provide support to the family member who is struggling.
- Strengthening the family’s emotional health.
Family Therapy in Action
Family Therapists use Systemic approaches to help family members resolve conflicts by enhancing their engagement and communication. For example, in narrative Family TherapyNarrative Family Therapy Narrative family therapy is a form of counselling that views people as separate from their problems. It... More about this therapy, the Therapist helps family members deconstruct problematic stories, share preferred stories, and listen to the individual stories of other family members.
The four Family Therapy approachesFamily Therapy Approaches Family therapy approaches are various methods used by experienced therapists to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and enhance... More about this therapy most commonly used include:
- Structural
- Bowenian
- Strategic
- Systematic
Approaches to Family Therapy
Our Integrative Family Counsellors use one or a combination of therapeutic approaches and modalities to support best the needs of the family as a whole, as well as the individuals within it. Family Therapy approaches utilised by Leone Centre Systemic Family Counsellors include:
Structural Therapy
Structural Therapy focuses on family members’ interactions in order to help their issues.
Strategic Therapy
Strategic Therapy has five stages:
- Social stage
- Problem stage
- Interactional stage
- Goal-setting stage
- Task-setting stage
Communication Therapy
Communication Therapy focuses on communication difficulties between couples and family members.
Psychoeducation
Psychoeducation aims to teach persons with substance use disorders and their families to understand better how substance use affects the family and how the family impacts substance use.
Relationship Counselling focuses on strained relationships between family members and can include parent-child, spouse-spouse, or other significant relationships within the family system.
Family Therapy FAQs
How experienced are your Family Therapists?
Leone Centre Family Therapists have a wealth of knowledge from thorough training and years of experience. Our Therapists are all registered members of the Association of Family Therapy (AFT) and/or BACP and UKCP.
Most Leone Centre Family Therapists are trained at a Postgraduate or Master’s level and have substantial work experience in NHS family services, mental health services, teaching, and supervising other Therapists.
Owing to their extensive experience, Leone Centre Family Therapists are wholly prepared to support families facing different relational difficulties and issues, such as:
- Lack of communication
- Bereavement and loss
- Constructing a new family structure after parental separation
- Overcoming conflict with mutual understanding
- Processing trauma
- Supporting the whole family when a family member experiences mental and physical ill-health.
I have commitments, dependents or young children. Do you provide Online Family Therapy?
Yes, Online Family Therapy can benefit families with young children or commitments, which makes it challenging to find time to travel to Therapy. Your sessions can be held conveniently without worrying about childcare or travelling. The Therapy can be held via an online video call in the comfort of the family home. Online Family Therapy can be a valuable tool in bridging the distance between family members, particularly those in different locations across the UK or worldwide.
Do you provide affirmative Family Therapy for LGBTQI+ families?
Absolutely. Our Therapy for LGBTQI+ families can help them reach their own unique goals. At the Leone Centre, our Family Therapists, available in London and online, can also help you to navigate points such as raising LGBTQI+ children, coming out, unconscious bias, discrimination, and general mental health issues and family dynamics.
Why Leone Centre?
Leone Centre’s experienced Therapists offer family and Systemic Therapy in London and online.
Our Therapists remain neutral – we don’t take sides. We support you by identifying and examining behavioural patterns within the family and encouraging fair, balanced communication between family members.
All counselling discussions are approached sensitively, and, of course, discussions with your Therapist are always confidential.
Leone Centre provides online and in-person Family Therapy, as well as Individual and Relationship Therapy, both online and at our London practices. Contact us to book your first session with one of our Family Therapists.
A member of my family has been diagnosed as neurodivergent. Can Family Therapy help?
Family Counselling can help with your family member’s diagnosis of a neurodivergent condition (such as autism or ADHD) by inviting the family to sit down together and discuss any anxieties, issues, necessary changes in family dynamics, and an agreed plan on the best way to move forward.
First, a change in attitudes is required, resulting from gaining a deeper understanding of the family member. At that point, Family Therapy can help all family members by introducing helpful tools to ease the management of usually difficult tasks.
Family Therapy Services
Online Family Therapy
By leveraging technology, Online Family Therapy offers increased accessibility, flexibility, and convenience. It enables all family members to participate in the Therapy process, regardless of their physical location. Members can join online sessions from multiple locations, enhancing accessibility.
This form of Therapy aims to improve communication, address problems, understand and handle challenging family situations (like death, physical or mental illness, or child and adolescent issues), and create a healthy functioning home environment.
In-person Family Therapy
Our Family Therapy in London focuses on healing relational issues within the family system. It aims to enhance communication, increase trust, and promote understanding of healthy boundaries. Moreover, it facilitates conflict resolution, strengthening the family’s emotional bond and overall health.
Family Divorce and Separation Counselling
Our Family Therapy services for divorced and separated families focus on healing and navigating the challenges of these transitions. We support managing emotional stress, improving communication, and fostering a cooperative co-parenting environment. This approach minimises the impact on children and helps family members adapt to new family structures, promoting a healthy adjustment for all involved.
Family Divorce and Separation Counselling
LGBTQI+ Affirmative Family Therapy
Our LGBTQI+ Affirmative Family Therapy services are designed to support families in embracing and understanding diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. By addressing challenges, we aim to enhance emotional and mental well-being within the family unit. This approach fosters a nurturing environment for all members, promoting acceptance, resilience, and stronger familial bonds.
LGBTQI+ Affirmative Family Therapy
Neurodivergent-affirmative Family Therapy
Our Neurodivergent-Affirmative Family Therapy services are designed to support families with neurodivergent members, recognising and valuing unique perspectives and challenges. This therapeutic approach fosters improved communication, enhances understanding, and strengthens family bonds. We offer personalised support to address the specific needs of neurodivergent individuals and their families, helping to sustain a supportive, inclusive environment.
Neurodivergent-affirmative Family Therapy
Therapy for Nontraditional Family Structures
Our Family Therapy services are inclusive and supportive of nontraditional family structures, including polyamorous relationships. We provide a safe space for all members to express their feelings, improve communication, and work with the complexities of their unique family dynamics. This approach promotes understanding, respect, and healthy relationships within diverse family forms.
Citations
Family Therapy Techniques by Dara Gasior, PsyD
An Introduction to Family Therapy by Rudi Dallos & Ros Draper
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