Family Psychotherapy

The focus of family psychotherapy is the entire family, including children and relatives. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between parents and children and parenting styles. The family situation is analyzed, and personal resources and ways to solve problems are sought.

Achieving personal comfort and harmony in the family does not lie in changing your partner, one of your children, or even your parents, but in changing yourself.

You SHOULD consult a family psychologist if this applies to you:

“...He's become withdrawn, he's not interested in me anymore, he just sits in front of the TV. He answers my questions with one-word answers. I try to figure out what's going on, ask him what's wrong, but he just gets annoyed, angry, and withdraws even more. I can't understand what's wrong with him, I'm lost in guesswork, and that makes me feel even worse. I don't know what to do.”

“...We used to be good together, we understood each other without saying a word. Now something has gone wrong, we don't see or hear each other, we don't solve everyday problems together, our child has started to get sick often...”

“...What should I do? I'm torn between two men. With one, I have the official status of a wife, financial stability, and... laundry, cleaning, and cooking. With the other, I have excitement, drive, and intense feelings. Both relationships are very dear to me...”

“...How can I convince my wife that I can't quit my job, my career, and spend as much time at home as she would like? After all, I try so hard and work so hard for her and our children, but she doesn't want to understand that...”

He is married, and you are not. Or vice versa... What brings two people together when they have different life goals, different everyday problems, and, as a result, different degrees of freedom? One might assume that it is love, although there may be other, less romantic reasons involved...

These are just a few of the questions that people often bring to a family psychologist's office.

Marital counseling by a good family psychologist involves working with clients on marital problems. Marital counseling is a special form of counseling focused on solving relationship problems, overcoming marital conflicts, achieving harmony, etc. It can be conducted with both partners or with one of them.

There are four subtypes of marital counseling:

pre-marital  counseling
marital counseling
family psychologist counseling on divorce (“breaking up” marriage)
counseling for divorced people who have experienced a breakup with their partner (post-marital counseling)

What does a family psychologist work with?

(Key issues in family and marital counseling)

Here is a list of the most common reasons for seeking the help of a family psychologist.

Family conflicts, mutual dissatisfaction, unfulfilled expectations related to the distribution of marital roles and responsibilities.
Conflicts, family problems, dissatisfaction between spouses related to differences in views on family life and interpersonal relationships.
Disappointment, dissatisfaction with a spouse related to the personal qualities and physical characteristics of their partner.
Sexual problems, infidelity, dissatisfaction of one spouse with the other in this area, their mutual inability to establish normal sexual relations.
Difficulties and conflicts in the relationship of a married couple with the parents of one or both spouses, with other people (friends, neighbors, acquaintances).
Illness (mental or physical) of one of the spouses or a child, problems and difficulties caused by the need for the family to adapt to the illness, negative attitude towards oneself and others on the part of the sick person or family members.
Problems of power and dependence in marital relationships.
Lack of warmth in the relationship between spouses, lack of intimacy and trust, communication problems
Very closely related to family and marital counseling is counseling focused on personality problems or individual counseling.

So, depending on the number of clients present, family and marital counseling can be either group or individual. A good family psychologist always knows HOW to help their client!