Family Counselling

Family life can be a source of comfort, love and security. Being part of a stable and happy family brings with it a great sense of belonging for children, adolescents or adults within the family.

Family life can also be challenging and at worst can bring about conflict and pain as family members struggle to work together and communicate effectively. By virtue of a family being a group of individuals with differing personalities, opinions and attitudes, family conflict can often arise. Families can get stuck in patterns of destructive behaviour or negative interaction and may have difficulty identifying how to make change, or even that the potential for positive change exists.

Life Supports provides family counselling to facilitate greater harmony and more positive family relationships within family groups. The process may involve just two or several members of the family working with the counsellor to better understand each other views and perspectives. Each person brings to the family group their own set of life experiences and perspectives within that family, along with their own personality and interactional style.

Counselling can help family members to genuinely hear each other and better understand each others' perspectives while also learning to take responsibility for their own actions and reactions within the family context. Identifying ways to facilitate more effective communication within the family and strategies to constructively deal with conflict are paramount to achieving more positive dynamics within the family group.

Life Supports counsellors have offices located in Balwyn, Melbourne CBD, Moorabbin, Niddrie, Prahran, Seddon and Geelong.

For further information refer to the Family Problems Information Sheet, call 9090 7024 or Email us.