Family Counseling

Family Counseling service offered in Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Dana Point, CA

Families often face challenges that they struggle to manage. The team at Mind Health Institute, Orange County, offer family counseling at their offices in Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and Dana Point, California. The team’s dedicated therapists use proven techniques to improve communication and negotiation skills for happier families. Call the nearest Mind Health Institute, Orange County office, or schedule a family counseling consultation online today.

Family Counseling Q & A

What is family counseling?

Family counseling focuses on resolving problems that arise in family life. The Mind Health Institute, Orange County team works with you and your close family members to improve communication and change damaging thoughts and actions.

Family counseling has developed significantly since its early days in the 1950s. It uses methods from several forms of therapy.

Which problems can family counseling treat?

Family counseling can help you and your loved ones with many different problems. When someone has a psychiatric disorder, it’s often hard for those around them to know how to help. Family counseling provides invaluable support for families affected by mental health problems, including the following:

Eating disorders
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Substance use disorders
Depression
Anxiety disorders
Phobias
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Bipolar disorder
Schizophrenia
Mood disorders
Personality disorders

Family counseling provides essential coping techniques for families affected by grief, life changes like relocating to a new city or state, and parental separation or divorce. It can also help partners overcome difficulties in their relationships to prevent separation and divorce.

What techniques does family counseling use?

The varying approaches family counseling uses include:

Family systems therapy

Family systems therapy views families as complicated interconnected systems. It identifies how one person’s behavior affects the other group members.

Structural family therapy

Structural family therapy focuses on the family’s rules and power dynamics. Your therapist helps change the group’s structures to improve how individuals feel and create a more unified family.

Cognitive-behavioral couples therapy

Therapists encourage couples to recognize behavior patterns causing them distress. They then teach both partners the skills needed to change these patterns.

Couples and marriage counseling

Therapists first help partners recognize their challenges and disagreements. Then, they help them communicate more clearly and identify solutions that they both find acceptable.

Why should I consider family counseling?

Family counseling has become far more popular and accepted in recent years. Studies have found that it’s among the most effective therapeutic techniques, with up to 80% of those in therapy feeling better at the end of their treatment.

Family counseling has also expanded to become more inclusive. In addition to traditional families, many providers now specialize in LGBTQIA couples and families with members from different cultures.

No matter who is part of your family, learning about respectful communication, shared understanding, and effective conflict resolution can make a considerable difference.

Call Mind Health Institute, Orange County, or book a family counseling consultation online today.