San Dimas Family Counselor

I’d like to be your family counselor in San Dimas. Family counseling (or family therapy) is a type of counseling that creates and maintains healthy and functional families. The goal of family therapy is to identify and resolve problems within the family. These problems can be emotional, psychological, or behavioral.

Various Family Counseling Structures at Trinity Thrive Therapy

Systemic Family Treatment

This therapy approach treats the family unit as a whole. It recognizes that each member’s actions can affect other family members and thus affects the entire family. This therapy is an approach to understanding and improving the relationships between families.

Structural Family Therapy

Salvador Minuchin created structural family therapy in 1960. This therapy was based on Salvador Minuchin’s belief that many emotional and behavioral issues in children and teenagers are often related to dysfunctional families.

Treatment is focused on understanding family boundaries and subsystems so that everyone can interact more productively. It also helps to establish boundaries and strengthen the relationships among family members.

Short Strategic Family Therapy

This type of therapy usually only lasts 12 sessions. The goal is to identify the problems in the family that are causing the behavior of a child, teen, or young person and restructure them.

The therapist will help young people in crisis by focusing on building positive family patterns and changing negative behaviors. The therapist might also assign homework to adjust and assess the communication styles of the family.

Psychoeducation

Family therapy includes the ability to learn more and receive evidence-based treatments.

 

Factors & Goals of Family Counseling

The goals of family therapy often align with one another. These include:

1. How family members interact with one other.
2. It is important to identify and fix any communication problems in the family.
3. Collecting and utilizing the family’s strengths, talents, and resources.
4. Families can be equipped with better problem-solving abilities.
5. Although every therapist has a unique style, this is a general idea of how family therapy could look.

Initial intake

The first meeting will be a chance for you and San Dimas family counselor to discuss the issue that brought about therapy.

The therapist will offer each member the chance to discuss the most pressing issues they or their families are experiencing and why.

Assessment

The San Dimas family counselor may ask you for information during the next several sessions. This will allow him to get a better picture of your family.

1. Your family history
2. Family roles
3. Approaches to parenting and discipline
4. Use the coping skills that your family has learned

If the therapist uses a strategic approach to family counseling, you might talk about how the problem you brought to therapy serves a specific function for your family. Talk about the coping strategies that your family has used.

Mapping the Family Structure

If the therapist uses structural approaches, the next step might be to create a map of your family hierarchy. This map might help you see how authority and boundaries work within your family.

A Treatment Plan is Created

Family therapists are often more interested in solving problems rather than assigning blame. Together, you and your psychotherapist will likely create a plan. It will outline the steps you can take to reduce unhealthy communication and problem-solving. The treatment plan could also look at ways to improve your family’s particular strengths.

 

How Trinity Thrive Therapy Family Counseling Works?

The first two or three sessions will focus on building rapport. We will get to know and understand each other. We will then begin working at your pace. Sometimes, if you feel stuck, we will gently push you to get you moving forward. Sessions will vary depending upon what you want, but we can help:

1. Family Estrangement
2. Anxiety counseling and Depression therapist
3. Grief, Loss
4. Childhood Trauma
5. Career Burnout (postsecondary trauma).
6. Women’s issues
7. Spiritual counseling

 

Why Choose Trinity Thrive Therapy?

Reflecting on my career and taking a deep dive, one thing struck me. These were the struggles, burdens, and challenges women face every day. It was something I witnessed with my clients. And it was something I observed with my colleagues.

Middle-aged women face many challenges. I offer individual and faith-based counseling to help anxious women, stressed, depressed, and anxious.

As caregivers, women can give a lot and often feel overwhelmed by the demands placed on their lives. Many middle-aged mothers are responsible for caring for elderly parents while raising their children. While many are working full-time, some suffer from hot flashes. Others feel sad that they have to leave the nest, and others do not enjoy their life.

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