Do you want to improve your marriage or other family relationships?
Is your family struggling to adjust to a difficult life transition, such as divorce, remarriage, serious illness or death in the family?
Are you concerned about the behavior of a child or adolescent?
If so, you might want to consider couple or family therapy.
Couple and Family Therapy
Although the focus of therapy is the family as a whole (or the couple), the therapist may not meet with the whole family for every session. Sometimes, he/she will meet with individuals or with family subgroups (for example, all the children in a family, or only the parents).
Clients will usually be given specific tasks or homework assignments to complete at home.
Goals of therapy include both behavior change and a better understanding of how the family functions.
Therapy can be short- or long-term, but is usually somewhere in between.
Medical insurance coverage for couple and family therapy is unpredictable and will hinge on whether the insurance company views the therapy as 'medically necessary.' It is most likely to be covered when the behavior of a child or adolescent is the focus of concern.
