Family Therapy

Having healthy interpersonal relationships, including with our families both biological and chosen, are crucial to our identity development and overall well-being, and family therapy can be helpful for many family systems, dynamics, and situations. Exploring the underlying factors that may be causing ruptures in relationships within a family can be a powerful way to strengthen familial relationships and our own personal well-being.

Similar to the reason that many individuals seek out therapy in St. Paul, MN and across Minnesota, it can be useful to have a neutral third party to help process, understand, and reframe struggles and dynamics. Family therapy is a safe place for family systems to do just that, and family therapists can help guide the process of healing within a family and introduce tools for more effective communication. Family therapy can address things like: adapting to changing family structure, processing past family trauma, introducing skills for communication and effective functioning within a family system, and more. Family therapy is sometimes shorter term than individual or couples therapy.

Our therapists who provide family therapy services: Tana, Megan, Ashley, Abby, Sarah, Mary, and Becky

Mary Devorak also provides Gaming Family Therapy for families who are interested in a unique approach to working through family stressors. Read more about Gamily Family Therapy here. Please complete Get More Information form below if you are interested in this specific type of family therapy. 

Following is a list of reasons families often take part in family therapy:

  • Aging – the effects on family
  • The effects of addiction on the family
  • Anger management/Conflict resolution
  • Blended and stepfamily challenges
  • Caregiving issues
  • Co-parenting, single parenting and visitation
  • Cultural and multicultural issues
  • Divorce
  • Families of the chronically mentally ill
  • Family challenges with children with developmental variations or physical limitations
  • Families with children and adolescents/teens and all of the complexities involved in parenting
  • Job loss or retirement
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, pansexual, and more (LGBTQIA+) concerns
  • Life stage transitions – birth of a child, separation, divorce or remarriage
  • Loss & grief
  • Parent-child relationships throughout the life course
  • Parenting for individuals with past trauma
  • Single parent/teen conflict
  • Stress from illness, disability, or death

Though not exhaustive, this list includes many of the reasons families are often seen together in therapy. Based on your family’s current circumstances, a unique treatment plan will be created to fit your needs. The length of family therapy will vary from family to family.

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