Family Therapy Psychotherapy

Family Therapy Psychotherapy

When do I recommend that a family do therapy together rather than each member separately? 1) when the family blames a member 2) when one or more members show physical or psychosomatic symptoms 3) when there is some kind of psychological or physical aggression expressed indirectly or directly by any member. These are common causes that some members in the family usually complain about. Group therapies are difficult because some of the members may not want to come, however there is a process that can in many cases be seen as helpful. I usually see each member individually once and there clarify many issues that may be hidden. So everyone has the possibility to have a personalized meeting. There, everyone’s needs are seen and shown directly, so then I can create a therapeutic framework in which everyone’s needs can coexist but above all find space and express another much more valuable need: the need of the group. The desire of the group. The team’s way of coexistence.

Family Therapy Psychotherapy – Special treatment options

Not all families can do group – family therapy. Either because they don’t want to, or because there are psychopathology issues that are prohibitive for coexistence in a treatment. There we find other solutions so that we can help. I might recommend couples therapy for a while (usually for the parents that is). Know that when couples are good to each other, then children do not present problems. Also, many times the parents think that something is wrong with the child. But things are completely opposite in a very large percentage of cases. Parents have problems they don’t want to see. These parents should enter couple’s therapy. It never helps to make individual separate. Parents should, for the sake of unity, a single line and understanding of the problems they have as a couple, do therapy together.

Family Therapy Psychotherapy

Family Therapy Psychotherapy – The Decision to See a Mental Health Specialist

When does one decide to see a mental health professional who specializes in family therapy? A difficult subject for many. They usually come when they have fallen off the cliff. When the problems have become so great and difficult that hope seems lost. I recommend that you come to therapy when you feel that something is wrong. That feeling that “something is happening that I don’t understand”. That’s where I need to hear that feeling. There you can do an individual session and you will see that the therapist who will try to understand, is likely to recommend you a family session. It is not always easy to understand.

Family Therapy Psychotherapy

But the training of the family therapist is such that even when something is very well hidden in the problematic family, a way will be found to show and emerge. There is the beginning of a journey whose purpose is to analyze the family and help it find its purpose. The purpose of a family is not what father or mother wants. Purpose is what is co-shaped by everyone without losing the autonomy of the members and without violating the right to be what one discovers that they can be. These things are not always easy which is why family therapy as a specialty is a very difficult area for specialists. Don’t be afraid to come for family therapy. I will see you individually first and tell you if such a therapeutic option is suitable in your case or if some other special psychotherapeutic intervention is needed.

The process of psychotherapy requires commitment, dedication and is addressed only to those who seriously see that they need to change their lives. If you are thinking of starting this journey, please call me at 211 71 51 801 to make an appointment and let’s see together how I can help you.

Mixalis Paterakis
Psychologist Psychotherapist
University of Indianapolis University of Middlesex
Karneadou 37, Kolonaki (next to Evangelismos)
I accept by appointment
Tel: 211 7151 801
www.psychotherapy.net.gr
www.mixalispaterakis.gr

Family Therapy Psychotherapy