Family therapy

What might lead you to seek family therapy?

 

a child struggling at schoolestrangement from your adolescent childrenadjusting to life events like a bereavement or divorce/separationdisputes regarding contact or residencya child with problems like anger or depressiona space for thinking of the impact of new diagnoses on the family eg Autistic spectrum, aspergers or ADHD“acting out” behaviours such as, cutting, alcohol excess, overdoses, verbal aggression or behaviour at school.anorexia nervosamother/grandmother disputes/tension

Part of The Ashwood Practice Child and Family Services

Family therapy is often useful where people are having difficulty communicating and noticing unhelpful patterns arising, for example rows and arguments that go round and round. We can see individuals, couples or parents and children or just the siblings. Sometimes families are adjusting to changes in the home, like divorce or separation or serious ill health.

Family therapy research shows that conversations between people can lead to a re-writing of their script about each other. Talking about how we experience the same event and the differences between us can create opportunities for change. Parents can be helped to understand their adolescents and vice versa; to become curious about each other, rather than making assumptions based on old stories.

Appointments are available to accommodate the complex lives of modern families.

We can offer appointments from 0830 hours through to 2000 on late opening nights. Most meetings last for one and a half hours and occur at intervals of two to three weeks.

All the therapists who work at the Ashwood Practice are accredited or registered with the relevant professional bodies. Our therapists sometimes work as a pair. For details of our therapists click here.

The Ashwood Practice, part of the Baker Duncan Partnership, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey Specialist Private Assessment and Treatment Services across the whole spectrum of psychological/mental health conditions and childhood developmental problems, including Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, ADHD and OCD. We offer a continuing service throughout childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The clinical problems we commonly encounter include depression, deliberate self-harm, anxiety - in all its forms, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders and adjustments reactions in individuals and families in relation to traumatic seperation (including bereavement of parents, children and siblings) or other family crises such as divorce and domestic/family violence.

We have developed specialist expertise in assisting families who have adopted children with attachment problems and we have also set up a therapeutic re-parenting scheme to support foster-carers who are struggling with very challenging behaviour in younger children.