- Has your family been through a recent major life stressor?
- Are you struggling to know how to best communicate with your children?
- Is your family experiencing a high level of conflict?
- Are family members withdrawing or resorting to unhealthy coping strategies?
Family Issues
What is Family Issues Therapy?
Family Issues Therapy addresses the complex dynamics within families that arise from major life transitions, trauma, conflict, and other stressors. These issues can significantly impact everyone’s mental health and well-being, leading to increased conflict, withdrawal, or unhealthy coping strategies. Therapy aims to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen family bonds. At Wellspring, we welcome every kind of family, acknowledging that there is no “one size fits all” solution to families’ social, emotional, and behavioral challenges. Our diverse, experienced, and licensed therapists work with you to develop a treatment plan tailored to your family’s unique needs, approaching treatment from a strength-based perspective to help resolve your challenges.
Wellspring therapists are compassionate, caring, and able to provide guidance and strategies for a whole range of issues, including:
- A significant life change such as divorce, loss of a family member, or a move
- Difficulties with anger management
- Depression
- Anxiety
- School refusal
- Intense irritability or mood changes
- Social isolation or interpersonal difficulties
- Trauma-related difficulties
- Sleep issues (such as insomnia, wakefulness, or nightmares)
- Technology related challenges – excessive use or overuse
Have Questions?
Our Intake Coordinator can answer any questions you may have about our services.
Therapeutic Approaches for Family Issues
Our therapists employ a variety of evidence-based strategies to address family issues comprehensively. Our approaches include:
- Individual Therapy: Focusing on each family member’s issues to improve overall family dynamics.
- Couples Therapy: Strengthening the partnership at the family’s core, improving communication, and resolving conflicts.
- Parenting Support: Providing parents with the tools and strategies to effectively manage and support their children.
- Family Therapy: Engaging the entire family in therapy to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen bonds.
Our therapists utilize a range of evidence-based strategies, including:
- Interpersonal Neurobiology: Understanding how relationships affect brain development and emotional health.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helping family members identify and change negative thought patterns and behaviors.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Focusing on improving the emotional bonds between family members.
- Trauma-Specific Treatment: Addressing the impact of trauma on the family.
- Social Learning: Helping family members learn from each other and adopt positive behaviors.
- Sand Tray Therapy: Using creative expression to explore family dynamics and emotions.
By addressing issues such as significant life changes (divorce, loss, moving), anger management, depression, anxiety, school refusal, mood changes, social isolation, trauma-related difficulties, sleep issues, and technology-related challenges, our therapists provide comprehensive support to help your family find new ways of working together.