Couples counseling and therapy | Parent counseling | Family counseling and therapy

Systemic family therapy

Systemic family therapy focuses on practical, everyday family life – a family life that aims to restore relaxation and security for everyone. Within a secure family structure, children need their parents to find their way in life, and parents need their energy to provide this guidance.

When this balance is disrupted, problems arise and a family needs support. Systemic family therapy considers each individual family member, always in interaction with the other family members. Attention is also focused on the social environment surrounding the family.

The entire family "system" is considered when developing solutions that can support the family. Systemic family therapy always focuses on the questions: What can be helpful? What has already proven effective?

Systemic family therapy incorporates the abilities of each family member and always focuses on finding a satisfactory solution for everyone. Sessions in systemic family therapy can involve individual parents or even all family members.

Couple therapy for parents

The lines between couples counseling and couples therapy are blurred, and there is no fundamental difference.
Couples therapy means delving deeper into the process of conflict resolution as a couple. It requires both partners to agree to and actively participate in a longer, supportive process together.

Couples therapy helps with this

• to become aware of one's own desires
• To perceive the partner's wishes
• To name disappointments and fears and to express anger
• to understand what unites and what divides us and to integrate them into our lives
• to look to the future and formulate appropriate wishes and expectations for the partnership
• to regain one's own balance
• to be emotionally available again as parents for their children

Couple counseling for parents

Couples and families are always different…
And parents even more so! Parents are always also mothers and fathers, and that sometimes makes their relationship life not exactly easier, as they always have to fulfill these roles responsibly as well.

Partners always bring themselves into a relationship, with their own life experiences, their upbringing, their desires and expectations… What initially develops into a pleasant partnership often turns into a frightening entrenchment of behavioral patterns after the birth of children. One or both partners feel hurt, misunderstood, and increasingly uncomfortable. The result is often a parallel existence, sometimes even leading to a desire for separation…

But what about the children…?!
Couples counseling for parents focuses on the parents as a couple and the question of necessities, meaning, and possibilities for maintaining the relationship and the existing family structure. A mutual understanding of needs is developed in couples counseling, creating the foundation for shifting perspectives and reopening communication. Particular emphasis is placed on "learning to listen again."
Couples counseling helps parents regain clarity and direction within a short period.

Parent counseling / Family counseling

In a secure family structure, children need their parents to find their way in life, and parents need their energy to provide this guidance. When this balance is disrupted, problems arise, and the family needs support. During uncertain times within the family, it is helpful for parents to be informed about mental health risks for their children.

Equally important, however, is understanding the conditions and protective factors that can help manage a difficult family situation. Every family is different – ​​parents and families need to find a path that suits them perfectly – counseling provides support and a wealth of information. Systemic family therapy is particularly helpful here, as it focuses on practical family life.

Advice for blended families

Blended families are families, and at the same time, they are something very special!
That's why blended families receive my special attention in my counseling work… The network of relationships here is very diverse and needs to be reshaped. Unlike in slowly evolved family structures, satisfying relationships and rules need to develop gradually.

Family members may also have to come to terms with the fact that things are not going quite as they had hoped… Systemic family therapy is very helpful here, as it focuses on practical family life.

Cost:
on request