What is Systemic Family Therapy?
Systemic family therapy is like an umbrella with many different approaches hanging off it. This way it is super agile and adaptable to the need or mood of the individual, couple or family.
All the approaches have central values in common:
We are all influenced by the contexts of relationships, family, society, history. These context influence our understanding and our behavioural responses.
Problems exist between interactional patterns and meaning-making.
Non-blaming but promotes personal agency.
The people are not the problem, the problem is the problem.
The person, couple or family are the experts on their experience.
People want to be in positive relationships.
Change is always enviable.
Goals are set at the start of therapy to give a structure and a measurable outcome.
There are different models, which I can use distinctly or as a synthesis, enabling me to provide an approach which suits your presenting needs.
Feel free to have a read of the different models with links provided below:
Narrative therapy (including attachment narrative)
Use of Genograms (Bowen school) as interventions in patterns
Emotionally focused therapy (including attachment injury repair with couples)
Appreciative Inquiry (with couples, families and organisations)
Hopefully you can see that there is a style within systemic family therapy that fits for you.