Support for Families Through Life’s Challenges
Family Counselling
Family relationships can be rewarding, but they can also become difficult when communication breaks down, conflict develops or family circumstances change.
Family counselling provides a supportive, confidential space to understand what is happening within your family and work towards positive change.
Family counselling can involve the whole family or just some family members, depending on what feels most appropriate. It can help you listen to each other's perspectives, improve communication, work through conflict and develop healthier ways of relating to one another.
How Can Family Counselling Help?
Families can find themselves caught in patterns of communication and behaviour that are difficult to change without support.
Family counselling can provide an opportunity to slow things down, hear different perspectives and understand what may be happening beneath the conflict.
It can help family members to:
- communicate more openly and listen to one another
- understand how different family members are feeling and experiencing situations
- work through disagreements and ongoing conflict
- rebuild trust and strengthen relationships
- manage changes or difficult periods within the family
- understand patterns that may be affecting family relationships
- find more constructive ways to respond to one another
- work together towards a way forward.
Who can take part in family counselling?
Family counselling does not necessarily mean that every member of the family attends every session. Depending on the circumstances, counselling may involve the whole family or just some family members.
Your counsellor will discuss who should be involved and what approach may be most helpful.
The aim is to create a process that gives everyone involved an opportunity to be heard and supports healthier family relationships.
Face-to-face and Online Family Counselling
We offer face-to-face family counselling at our counselling locations across Sussex.
We also offer online family counselling when all members taking part in the session are aged 18 or over.
This can provide a flexible alternative for families who find travelling difficult or who live in different locations.
If children or young people are taking part in family counselling, sessions will need to be held face-to-face.
You don't have to wait until things reach breaking point.
Families can seek support when communication is becoming difficult, relationships feel strained, or in anticipation of a change that will affect the family.