Families are constantly growing, changing, and navigating new challenges. Whether you’re facing conflict, life transitions, behavioural concerns, or communication difficulties, family therapy provides a supportive space to strengthen relationships and work through challenges together.

What is Family Therapy?

Family therapy is facilitated by a trained registered psychotherapist or registered social worker (RP or RSW) who specializes in working with families. Sessions may include the whole family, smaller family groups, or individual family members, depending on your family’s unique needs and goals.

When each family member has the opportunity to feel heard, understood, and supported, meaningful changes in relationships can begin to occur. While family therapy may not eliminate every challenge, it can help families develop healthier ways of communicating, resolving conflict, and supporting one another through life’s difficulties.

Common topics for working with a Family Therapist:

• Family separation
• Managing conflict
• Blended families
• Improving communication and relationships
• Trauma
• Death and grief of a loved one
• Financial hardship
• Addictions
• Anxiety or depression
• Recent diagnosis or illness
• Parenting challenges
• Eating disorders
• Working through difficult behaviour
• Life Transitions
• Adult children and their parents

Some common goals for pursuing family therapy is to improve communication, rebuild trust, reduce conflict, strengthen relationships, maintain healthier boundaries, and create mutual parenting strategies.

How to get started

Many of our therapists at Ohana Wellness Clinic offer family therapy at our Toronto office. Either working one-on-one with individual family members or as a group. Visit our online calendar to book an appointment or call reception at (416) 820 8588.