Home is where your family is inherently happy, stable, and healthy, and where family counseling can further nurture and strengthen those bonds, leading to a more supportive and loving environment.
Is your family experiencing sadness, anxiety, anger, depression, or other emotions that are making your family unstable?
Is communication as a family a struggle or non-existent?
Do you notice more frequent silent treatments among family members?
Are members showing no interest in family life?
Is there violence or threat of violence to oneself or others in the family?
Did someone in your family die, leaving members feeling stuck in grief?Do you feel your family is unhappy or unstable?
If any of these questions sound like a family problem you’re experiencing, Our counseling can help restore your family’s happiness and stability.
Oakwood Counseling is the leading family counseling service provider, serving across the Brazos Valley, Texas. We have a team of licensed counselors dedicated to helping your family with care, compassion, and respect. To learn more about our family counseling services, please call (979) 229 7636 or write to us via Office@oakwoodcounseling.com.
Every Family Faces Challenges. Let Us Help You Navigate Them Together.
Family is home! When your family is happy, everything in the world seems to be right. When Mothers, Fathers, and kids enjoy spending time with each other, they often feel comfortable opening up about daily life and family communication is good.
However, when siblings resent each other or parents and children don’t get along, it can lead to a home where there is no peace to be found. Family counseling is a safe space for families to come together with a counselor who can assist in moderating conversations, and ask hard questions that can get to the heart of the issue.
At Oakwood Counseling, our family counselors will help your family members listen to one another, help families share their thoughts and current struggles with each other, and create a safe, comfortable space that will allow everyone to feel heard and seen. They will guide your family to navigate your unique challenges and find solutions that lead to a happy, fulfilling family life.
Why Family Counseling Is Important
Communicating is not always easy. If your family is going through difficult times, getting family counseling can be crucial for you and other members. Unresolved conflicts and communication breakdowns can increase tensions and misunderstandings within the family unit. Family counseling is a unique tool that can help your family come together to work to understand how certain situations may have been perceived differently by each member.
Our counselings teaches families how to use different tools that they can use with one another to improve communication in the future.
If family issues are left unaddressed, sometimes, we see these issues lead to potential mental health problems, such as anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. Children can suffer from emotional distress, behavioral problems, and academic difficulties. Parents may also find their relationship deteriorating, further destabilizing the family.
It’s important to seek support when family issues become a daily struggle. When your family is struggling to work through things together, Oakwood Counseling can step in and guide your family to discovering the root of the issue. Call them today to get started.
When to Seek Family Counseling
If your family is experiencing the following obstacles, it may be a sign to seek family counseling.
- Communication breakdown between family members
- Energy drain in your family
- One or more members going into seclusion
- Feelings of helplessness
- One or more members had a traumatic experience
- Parents are getting divorced or separated
- Discovery of an affair
- Substance use problems
- Mental health disorders such as eating disorder
- Members exhibiting sadness, anger, frustration, depression, etc.
- Changes in children’s behavior at home or in school
- Children behaving out of control
- Violence or symptoms of violence
- Members giving silent treatment to each other
- Facing problems due to financial situation
- Loss of someone closed
- A member is seriously ill
- Family going through a big transition
Why Choose Oakwood Counseling for Family Counseling?
We understand that each family has unique relationship dynamics. Even if you don’t find any of the above signs but feel that something is amiss in your family, our family counselors can help you find the root cause and address it with care and compassion.
Our family counseling services and evaluation process are tailored to each family in the Brazos Valley. We follow holistic, integrative approaches designed to address not just the problem, but also treat the body, mind, and spirit to help you and your family lead a more fulfilling journey.
We aim to help your family lead a more balanced and happy life together.
What to Expect During Family Counseling
Unlike individual counseling, family counseling addresses the problems that affect the entire family dynamic. The entire family will attend the session together.
In family counseling, each member plays an important role in their family, these roles will be discussed and respected. Our counseling sessions are safe comfortable spaces that allow children to communicate openly with their parents and parents to their children. We aim to have each family member feel connected and heard when leaving sessions. When every member feels respected, this helps build a more peaceful family.
Our family counselors will encourage each family member to talk and share about problems at home, how they perceive and view past struggles or situations, and to express their feelings. This approach helps your family open up, understand, and talk about what may need to change in the family.
Our family counselors begin by helping your family learn how to communicate openly and then work through the concerns and issues. Our family counseling sessions help parents and kids listen to each other with patience and respect.
Frequently Asked Questions
Family counseling is a professional intervention to help address concerns that affect the whole family group. Also called family therapy, it helps develop and maintain healthy and functional family relationships. The goal of family counseling is to identify and address family issues, which could be behavioral, emotional, or psychological.
The role of a family counselor is to engage with the family, talk about concerns with the members, conduct an initial assessment, and guide the entire family to help it heal and grow. At Oakwood Counseling, we use a holistic approach to manage family struggles, challenges, and conflicts.
Yes, family counseling works when all family members are willing to communicate, discuss their concerns, and work together to restore the family peace under an expert’s guidance. It can help your family find productive ways to cope with issues and communicate with each other.
