Family Therapy

In a protected environment, all members of your family can talk about the difficulties and conflicts that exist, their own feelings, wishes and needs. This gives everyone the opportunity to take a different perspective on the relationships in your family and to make working together more helpful.

 

Family counseling/family therapy can be helpful

  • if the relationships within your family are disturbed, complicated or confused by certain circumstances, 
  • when parents feel powerless over their children and want to gain more authority without violence
  • when boundaries within the family become blurred and children feel responsible for their parents
  • when there are multi-generational patterns that you would like to break
  •  if children are suffering from the separation of their parents or the (impending) loss of a family member and there are conflicts of loyalty
  • if a child has problems and the work with the overall system and the change in family interaction have a positive influence on the child. 

The aim is to recognize and question the existing patterns of relationships, actions and values and to try out new, different and more helpful things. In the family therapy sessions, systemic questioning techniques, work with constellations/sculptures, narrative techniques or genogram work are used, as well as paradoxical interventions and parent coaching methods.

Modalities

 

The sessions usually last 100 minutes (2 sessions) and take place at a rhythm that is based on your problem and the people involved.

 

Team counseling with a colleague can also be very helpful.

 

It is not always necessary for all family members to be present: depending on the objective, it may also make sense to work in different constellations.

 

If it is more suitable for your family situation, family counseling can also take place in your home in Berlin. 

 

Please feel free to contact me if you would like to arrange an initial appointment.