What is Family & Systemic Support? 

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Family and systemic support can help people in close relationships to understand and support each other more effectively. It supports family members to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, listen to each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on family strengths, and work together to make useful changes in their relationships and their lives.

 
Our counselling practice provides your family with an opportunity to talk to someone neutral, outside of your situation, and whose role is to work with you to understand the difficulties you are experiencing, the impact on each member of the family and the family as a whole and to support you in finding effective ways of communicating and being together. It is a space which is supportive, trustworthy, and confidential, within which you can safely explore your concerns. It is a space where you will be listened to in an accepting and respectful way, to help you make sense of your concerns in the wider context. Depending on the difficulties being experienced, the counsellor may work with a member of the family 1-1, with specific members of the family who are mainly impacted, or the whole family. 

Family support is particularly effective for child and adult focused problems including:

•  Attachment

•  Child abuse

•  Eating disorders

•  School related difficulties

•  Relationship distress

•  Alcohol and drug misuse