Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen.
It’s tough to do when we are terrified about
what people might see or think.

Brené Brown

Family well-being and health are impacted by the beliefs, behaviours, emotional wellness of each individual member of the family group.

Similarly, the individual’s well being and health can be affected by problematic relational patterns in the family.

Gaining Understanding

Family therapy provides a safe environment for each member to explore the ways your family are interacting that prevent your family from flourishing.

Our systemic trained therapists will help each member of your family identify and understand how their beliefs and behaviours impact other members of the family.

By improving communication with your family, we will guide you through past and present struggles and help you create positive ways of relating and understand the vulnerabilities and strengths of the family.

Gorey Therapy Centre counselling and psychotherapy for families
Gorey Therapy Centre counselling and psychotherapy for families

For the People that You Consider to be Family

Today, the word “ Family” has many different meanings. Whether your family includes a spouse, young children, siblings, parents, adult children, extended family, blended family or close friends- family therapy can strengthen family attachment and restore the connection.

Our systemic therapists are interested in understanding your family in the context of the whole of their lives. By this, family therapists collaborate with you in all your relationships, past and present, personal and professional.

This allows all family members to view their situation through a different lens and helps create clarity and forge new understandings which support the family in creating solutions to the issues that brought them to therapy.

Issues that can be Addressed

Some of the issues which may be addressed through Family Therapy include but are not limited to:

  • Behavioural issues in children and adolescents
  • Mental Health Concerns
  • Chronic Illness
  • Communication Problems
  • Anger issues
  • Separation, divorce or blended family adjustments
Gorey Therapy Centre counselling and psychotherapy for families

More information on what systemic psychotherapists do can be found on the Family Therapy Association of Ireland (FTAI) website