Christian Family Counseling

Christian Family Counseling at Laguna Christian Counseling is not focused on an individual’s needs or concerns, but it is tailored to the family. This could look different depending on the situation and could include counseling immediate family members, blended families, one or both parents with one child, foster families, adult children with the family of origin, co-parents, or even extended family members. Family is a broad, diverse group of people, and many issues and complications can follow suit.

A counselor at Laguna Christian Counseling will assess the family members seeking counseling together or separately, work with the family to set therapy goals, and work collaboratively with them to meet those goals. Family counseling could be short or long-term, depending on needs and goals, and the structure will depend on the counselor.

Because families are so diverse, family counseling interventions and techniques are also diverse. Christian counselors in Laguna may use Structural Family Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Attachment-based interventions, Person-child Interaction Therapy, and others. They will use interventions or models of therapy that they believe would be a good fit for the family as a whole.

Families will seek counseling for many different reasons. They could be dealing with excessive conflict in the home, struggling with adjustments or a new relationship, walking through the emotional aftermath of divorce, dealing with a history of strained relationships, unforgiveness, parenting difficulties, communication issues, or they may simply want to grow closer. Whatever the issues, family counseling could be the right fit. If individual counseling would be more appropriate, the counselor will let the family know.

Though it is common for some resistance in family therapy, when all parties are willing to try to engage and do the assigned activities, families can make progress toward their goals. Family counseling is one of the most difficult types of therapy, but when a family can find a qualified, experienced family counselor and the family is willing to put in the hard work, they can see usually see significant change.