Child and Family Psychological Services is a multi-disciplinary health care group and psychological consulting practice dedicated to providing the highest quality services to children, adolescents, adults, and families in a caring, patient-friendly environment. In providing behavioral health and mental health care services we strive to integrate research evidence, clinical expertise and client values into our clinical practice. We also provide forensic psychological evaluation and consulting to industry, lawyers, educational institutions, and other health care providers and practices.
Our psychologists at Brighton provide a variety of services for a wide range of concerns that children, youth, and families may encounter. We focus on evidence-based treatment approaches for anxiety, depression, behavioural challenges, attachment difficulties, relationship problems, and more.
Our Health Service Psychologists offer a range of diagnostic, treatment, educational and consultation services to help you with the psychological issues you may be facing. Some Health Service Psychologists deal with many different types of disorders and offer a wide range of services, while others are more specialized. You should ensure that your psychologist has the education, training and experience with your type of issue or problem.
Psychologist Brighton CBD services include family counseling and family therapy which can help children and family to underly the cause of their problems.
Family counseling aims to address psychological, behavioral, and emotional issues that cause family problems. Family members will work with a therapist to develop and maintain a healthy relationship. Family counseling, or family therapy, is a method to develop and maintain healthy and functional family relationships. The goal is to identify and address problems in the family. These issues could be emotional, psychological, or behavioral.
As you look for a family counselor, consider all of the options available, including a traditional, local counselor and online therapists. There are counselors out there who will be an ideal place for your family to start exploring therapy. If you are thinking about family therapy, that in itself is a good signifier that you need it.
Once you decide the time is right for family counseling, families have the daunting task of finding and selecting the right therapist for them. Identifying those therapists that participate in your health insurance plan can take a big part of the financial stress out of making a decision to seek professional help.
Benefits of family counseling
The benefits of counseling vary from family to family. They can include:
- developing healthy boundaries
- improving communication
- defining someone’s role within the family
- improving family dynamics and relationships
- providing strength and coping tools for family members
- addressing dysfunctional interactions
- improving the family’s problem-solving abilities
Your family can may also pursue family therapy with the help of our psychologists here in Brighton along with other types of mental health treatment, especially if one of you has a mental illness or addiction that also requires additional therapy or rehabilitation treatment.
Family therapy can help you improve troubled relationships with your partner, children or other family members. You may address specific issues such as marital or financial problems, conflict between parents and children, or the impact of substance abuse or a mental illness on the entire family.
Child psychology is one of the many branches of psychology. This particular branch focuses on the mind and behavior of children from prenatal development through adolescence. Child psychology deals not only with how children grow physically, but with their mental, emotional, and social development as well.
Our child psychologists specialize in helping kids cope with specific developmental concerns, and they may take a more general approach. In either case, these professionals strive to help kids overcome potential problems and grow in ways that lead to healthy outcomes.
If your child has health, development or wellbeing concerns, health professionals like psychologists are there to care for your child and help you understand your child’s condition and treatment. With the support and expertise of these professionals, you can help your child thrive. You can do things to help your child get the most from therapy. Here are some of them:
- Find a therapist you and your child feel comfortable with. Your child’s health care team can help you find someone.
- Take your child to all the appointments. Change takes time. It takes many therapy visits for your child to learn new skills and keep them up.
- Meet with your child’s therapist. Ask what to do when your child shows problems at home. Ask how to help your child do well.
- Spend time with your child. Play, cook, read, or laugh together. Do this every day, even if it’s only for a few minutes.
- Parent with patience and warmth. Use kind words, even when you need to correct your child. Show love. Give praise when your child is doing well or trying hard.
In therapy, kids learn by doing. With younger kids, this means working with the whole family, drawing, playing, and talking. For older kids and teens, therapists share activities and ideas that focus on learning the skills they need. They talk through feelings and solve problems.
A therapist might meet with the child and parent together or meet with the child alone. It depends on the child’s age. A therapist might also meet with a parent to give tips and ideas for how to help their child at home.
Understanding what makes kids tick is an enormous task, so the study of child psychology is both wide and deep. The goal is to study the many influences that combine and interact to help make kids who they are and to use that information to improve parenting, education, child care, psychotherapy, and other areas focused on benefiting children.
Our psychologists are more than welcome to help you with any of your family-related issues. We will continually work with you and your family to ensure that your relationship is at its best. With the perfect combination of our expertise and methods and your readiness to make a change, we’ll gradually foster a healthy relationship for everyone.
Family counselling and family therapy can help you and the members of your family become a solid family unit again. No matter the reason why the conflict happened in the first place, with our help you can begin to bridge the gap to a healthy future with your family. Call now to book your next appointment.