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Family Therapy at Astute
Supporting families, couples, and caregivers with evidence-based therapy and holistic services to strengthen communication, relationships, and emotional well-being.
Understanding Family Therapy
Family therapy helps families and couples navigate challenges, improve communication, resolve conflict, and strengthen emotional bonds. Therapy is tailored to family dynamics, life transitions, and developmental stages.
Astute provides a supportive environment for all family members to explore challenges, build skills, and develop healthier relationships.
Therapy Options at Astute
- Family Systems Therapy
- Explores relational patterns and dynamics within families, improving understanding and connection.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Targets communication patterns, conflict resolution, and coping strategies within family relationships.
- Couples Therapy
- Helps partners strengthen communication, emotional connection, and problem-solving skills.
- Holistic Treatments
- Onsite services: Mat Pilates, Reformer Pilates, Group & Individual Sound Bath, Reiki, Workshops, Yoga, Acupuncture, and Massage.
Coordinated Support
- Referrals to allied professionals for holistic and supportive care
- Coordination with mental health providers for complex family needs
- Integration of onsite holistic therapies to enhance family well-being
What to Expect at Astute
- Comprehensive intake: Assess family history, dynamics, and goals.
- Personalized treatment plan: Tailored therapy and holistic interventions.
- Collaborative care: Coordination among family members and providers.
- Skill-building & empowerment: Enhance communication, emotional regulation, and family cohesion.
Why Choose Astute
- Experienced therapists for families, couples, and caregivers
- Evidence-based, individualized therapy
- Onsite holistic services to complement therapy
- In-person and telehealth options available
Holistic Services at Astute
- Mat Pilates
- Reformer Pilates
- Group & Individual Sound Bath
- Reiki
- Workshops
- Yoga
- Acupuncture
- Massage
In Crisis?
If you are in crisis, please reach out to your nearest ER immediately.
We are not open for crisis situations. Our hours are 8 AM – 8 PM, Monday through Friday.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Text: HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line)
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.
Your family may pursue family therapy 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. For example:
Family therapy can help family members cope if a relative has a serious mental illness such as depression — but the person who has depression should continue with his or her individualized treatment plan, which may include medications, one-on-one therapy or other treatment.
In the case of addiction, the family can attend family therapy while the person who has an addiction participates in residential treatment. Sometimes the family may participate in family therapy even if the person with an addiction hasn’t sought out his or her own treatment.
Family therapy can be useful in any family situation that causes stress, grief, anger or conflict. It can help you and your family members understand one another better and learn coping skills to bring you closer together.
Family therapy typically brings several family members together for therapy sessions. However, a family member may also see a family therapist individually.
Sessions typically take about 50 minutes to an hour. Family therapy is often short term — generally about 12 sessions. However, how often you meet and the number of sessions you’ll need will depend on your family’s particular situation and the therapist’s recommendation.
During family therapy, you can:
Examine your family’s ability to solve problems and express thoughts and emotions in a productive manner
Explore family roles, rules and behavior patterns to identify issues that contribute to conflict — and ways to work through these issues
Identify your family’s strengths, such as caring for one another, and weaknesses, such as difficulty confiding in one another
EXAMPLE: DEPRESSION
Say that your adult son has depression. Your family doesn’t understand his depression or how best to offer support. Although you’re worried about your son’s well-being, conversations with your son or other family members erupt into arguments and you feel frustrated and angry. Communication diminishes, decisions go unmade, family members avoid each other and the rift grows wider.
In such a situation, family therapy can help you:
Pinpoint your specific challenges and how your family is handling them
Learn new ways to interact and overcome unhealthy patterns of relating to each other
Set individual and family goals and
work on ways to achieve them
Results
Family therapy doesn’t automatically solve family conflicts or make an unpleasant situation go away. But it can help you and your family members understand one another better, and it can provide skills to cope with challenging situations in a more effective way. It may also help the family achieve a sense of togetherness.