Systemic Family Therapy

Systemic is a generic term for family therapy and helps understand how a family has become stuck in a pattern of interaction. It focuses on the context and networks of significant relationships within which people live their lives. This way of thinking sees the family as dynamic and the people who make up the family as changing and developing. The meanings created between individuals in the family are of particular interest in counselling. Counselling may explore how these meanings have evolved and been constructed by the people who make up the family. The counsellor may develop possibilities and interventions to help the family dynamic and deliver useful change.