The importance of parent-child relationships stretches far beyond the rooted family tree and your home. This will deeply affect the child’s present and future relationships or interactions with others, themselves, and with the world itself.
What is Family Therapy?
Family Therapy is a type of psychological counseling that creates a loving and open space for all family members to express their true thoughts and feelings. Without judgment, parents and children are able to more presently listen to each other’s perspectives and respond to each other with more love and compassion. Over time, families learn positive ways to lovingly communicate their feelings, valuing each other’s experiences and feelings.
How Family Therapy Improves Parent-Child Relationships
- Learn how to express love to one another
Loving affection can be shown to one another in different ways. For love to grow, it is important for us to show love in different ways. Through acts of kindness, physical affection, encouraging or loving words, and intentional gifts. With the reciprocity of love, connection and appreciation continues to grow between a parent and child for years to come. - Learn to effectively set rules, boundaries, and consequences
Setting boundaries, rules, and consequences can be difficult. However, these are the building blocks for guaranteeing respect in any given relationship. As a parent, it is important to set intentional boundaries and rules to support your child’s development and learn respect, responsibility, and right from wrong. Family therapy can help to lovingly establish these and learn how to communicate with each other if there is any disagreement or behavioral issues that arise after new rules are put in place at home. - Learning how to spend more quality time with each other
Connection begins with intentional listening, loving space, and empathizing with your child. It’s important to make guaranteed time to be present and spend uninterrupted time with your child. These moments are special for every child’s development and emotional needs. With Family Therapy, you can learn ways to express emotions together, foster creativity, and create dedicated distraction-free time everyday with your child.
Family Therapy in the La Crescenta-Montrose Area
Are you looking for a therapist who can best support you and your family? Given Guidance provides Family Therapy to families in La Crescenta, CA, and Los Angeles County.
Schedule your first session today. You and your family matter to us!