Family and systemic psychotherapy – also known as family therapy – can help those in close relationships to better understand and support each other. It enables family members to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, understand 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.  

Family and Systemic Psychotherapy can work with people in any form of relationship:

• Couples
• Families
• Groups
• Carers
• Professional groups
• Teams
• Businesses

• Sleep and Feeding (for babies)
• Attachment
• Child abuse
• Eating disorders
• School related difficulties
• Relationship distress
• Alcohol and drug misuse

Research shows Family Therapy is useful for children, young people, adults and older adults experiencing a wide range of difficulties and interpersonal issues and circumstances, across the family life cycle including:

• Couple relationship difficulties
• Child and adolescent mental health issues
• Adult mental health issues
• Child, adolescent and adult behaviour difficulties
• Parenting issues
• Illness and disability in the family
• Separation, divorce and step-family life
• Anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders
• Fostering, adoption, kinship care and the needs of ‘looked after’ children
• Domestic violence and abuse
• Self-harm
• Drug and alcohol misuse
• The effects of trauma
• Physical illness, death, dying and bereavement
• Difficulties related to ageing and other life cycle changes