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Family Therapy in Boston
Family therapy can be crucial to helping you heal from long-lasting trauma that started in childhood. It can also be used to help you repair your relationships with your direct or extended family.
Our family therapy services here at Back Bay Mental Health can help you foster healthy relationships with others, feel heard, and discover the root causes of your mental health concerns in a safe environment.
As an intensive outpatient facility in Boston, we offer comprehensive support and treatment and work with you around your schedule.
Our therapeutic approach can help the whole family heal in ways they only hoped for.
What is Family Therapy?
Family counseling can help families repair their relationship by addressing the root causes of their pain and working to build better communication skills and paths forward.
Ideally, families attend this type of therapy together. Not every session will be done collectively, but every family member involved should be working towards the same goal.
Families that do the work in therapy together can properly heal. It’s that commitment to improving your relationships with each other that does wonders. The rest is just skill building, which we can help with.
Benefits of Getting Family Therapy Boston Services
There are many benefits of starting evidence-based counseling to deal with your mental health challenges or conflicts within your family.
Improve Relationship Issues Between Family Members
Family therapy can help if you have a difficult relationship with your family, even extended family members. So long as both parties want to make strides towards repairing your relationship and beginning the healing process, our therapists can help.
We can help parents better understand their children. We can help siblings repair their relationship. We can even help you learn how to deal with family issues.
Address Mental Health Concerns from Childhood Trauma
Children experience trauma just like anyone else. The difference is that they tend to internalize it more easily. This may make it seem like you’re “fine” at the time, but the pain and damage of the trauma you experienced as a child continue throughout your life.
With counseling, you can learn to develop coping methods, life skills, and cognitive behavioral strategies to overcome your trauma. This can be done with treatments like narrative exposure therapy or cognitive behavioral therapy.
While ideally, we will work with your entire family, we don’t have to. If you don’t have the support of your family, we can still work with you. We can help you address issues like low self-esteem, anxiety, unhealthy attachments, and more. We’ll help you understand the root causes of your pain so that you can make strides toward personal growth.
Recover from Traumatic Experiences as a Family
There are two instances where family therapists can help your family through a traumatic experience.
One is to help everyone involved in a collective trauma experience. For example, if you and your family members were involved in a car accident or there was a house fire, then your entire family’s mental health might suffer as a result.
Family therapy can help each member of your family individually as well as in a group together. This way, you can all build the coping skills necessary as an individual and family to move forward after the trauma.
Another way that family therapists can help your family through trauma is if just one member experiences the trauma directly, and the rest of your family experiences secondary trauma because of it. This can happen if one member has a life-threatening disease, like cancer.
Help Family Members Adjust to Big Changes
Family therapy sessions can also help families adjust to major life changes. A major life change can include anything from a death to a new relationship to even a big move. If you have kids or teens struggling after a big change, a licensed family therapist can help provide the family counseling needed to accept the change in a healthy way for everyone involved.
What Does a Family Therapist Do?
A family therapist leads both individual therapy sessions and group sessions. Your therapist may use techniques like cognitive behavior therapy, cognitive process therapy, and other evidence-based techniques to help you understand your mental health.
Understanding the causes of your depression, anxiety, attachment styles, and even trauma is the first step toward addressing the challenges that have held you back from being your healthiest self.
Your mental health professional might work with just one family member if childhood trauma plays a crucial role in your mental health. Ideally, however, the whole family will partake as a group.
What Does Family Therapy Massachusetts Include?
When you start at Back Bay Mental Health, you are at the forefront of your treatment plan. We put your needs, goals, and well-being at the heart of everything that we do. That's why you will have access to your personalized treatment plan that includes:
- Assessment: We will help you get to the root causes of your concerns and challenges in a safe space.
- Individual Therapy: We will work with you individually to help you overcome or manage your mental conditions. This is how we help you develop the tools to manage your anxiety, depression, or substance abuse.
- Family Therapy: If possible, we work with other members of your family individually and collectively to improve relationships between members.
- Group Therapy: We will connect you to support groups and have you attend group sessions so you can connect with others who understand.
- Medication Management: If you suffer from extreme symptoms, we might prescribe medication to help.
- Holistic Treatment: We believe in treating the body, soul, and mind. That’s why we offer holistic treatment alongside clinical treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy.
Do You Qualify for Family Therapy?
If you suffer from any mental health condition, struggle because of seemingly irreparable damage in your relationships, or struggle to maintain healthy relationships, then you qualify for family therapy.
You don’t need to explicitly know you need family therapy when you start with us, either, as we help connect you to the root causes of your mental health struggles.
Get in Touch with Back Bay Mental Health to Start Treatment
We are a private facility, so you get comprehensive care in a luxurious setting. There are no wait lists or need for overnight stays, and we always work with you and your needs first. There’s no reason not to get in touch if you’re looking for comprehensive and dedicated help with your mental health, so get in touch with our team today