Family Therapy
Family members can experience the same situation very differently. One person may be worried, another angry, and another unsure why therapy is needed at all. Family therapy offers time to understand those different experiences and look at how life together has become difficult.
You might be dealing with recurring conflict, separation, grief, illness or changes in caring responsibilities. Disagreements about parenting, tensions between generations or adjusting to a new family arrangement can also bring people to therapy. This work can involve parents and young people, adult relatives or chosen family members.
I pay attention to family relationships and roles, alongside the pressures of school, work and the wider circumstances in which you live.
When a family member is neurodivergent, this also means asking whether communication, routines and expectations fit their needs, and what support is available around the family.
We might explore what tends to happen when tensions rise, how different people respond and what each person needs others to understand. If attention has become fixed on one person's behaviour, we can ask what else needs to be understood. Together, we would discuss who it would be helpful to involve and what to focus on first.
Family therapy may include young people aged 10 and over, where appropriate. Shoreline does not provide individual psychotherapy for children or teenagers.