What is Systemic Psychotherapy?

Family and systemic psychotherapy can help those in close relationships to better understand and support each other. It works well with families, couples and individuals. When working with families, systemic psychotherapy can enable family members to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on family strengths, and work together to make useful changes in their relationships and their lives.

 

All kinds of life events can make life more stressful for individuals, couples and families, such as an illness, unemployment, moving home, new family members, getting older, divorce, death and trauma. Some people find their own ways to manage these changes whilst for others it can be much harder, for all kinds of reasons.

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Systemic therapy can help at all stages of life. It can help when feeling overwhelmed, sad or angry. It can be useful when it is not clear what to do for the best or when individuals, families or couples feel stuck in repeating patterns of hurtful or harmful behaviour. 

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