Even with all the love in the world, family can be complicated. Often members of families have different temperaments, sensitivities, and communication styles. Navigating those differences can be challenging. It’s difficult to honor our own and one another’s needs at the same time, especially when sometimes we as parents never had our own parents model how to do so.

In some cases, when you’re so close to something it’s hard to see things clearly. Family Therapy can help parents, children, and siblings learn to communicate and understand one another better. At Zen Life Counselling we can help family members see how they influence one another’s behaviour. Often we can’t see how our behaviour and communication is actually creating the very behaviors of our family members that hurt us.

In Family Therapy, rather than focusing on one member’s problems, we examine how the entire family needs to heal. As we heal the family system, each family member’s needs can be met and we can restore the family’s sense of closeness and peace.