Family Therapy
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by CHANGE”
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As a family, we just don’t talk anymore
Everything is always a fight
I just can’t connect with my stepfamily
There is unspoken pain we never talk about
Our kids are affected by this stress
Families are complicated. You may be feeling frustrated with your spouse and/or children. Or perhaps you’re trying to adjust to your new step-family, and you’re encountering escalating behaviors in teens or young children. Maybe, you’re dealing with trauma that has been woven into your life generation after generation.
Problems can appear in the healthiest of families. This can result in frustrating, and painful interactions among family members. From little nuisances to deeply buried resentments, from dramatic arguments to feelings of guilt, disappointment, shame, fear, and anger. Often we did not even know we had these feelings. Our families often bring up the most intense emotions we experience, for better or worse.
Life Transitions Can Cause Family Tension
Perhaps, your family is struggling through a life transition like furthering your education, moving, maneuvering relationships, and so much more. Maybe, you’re stressed about finances, gaining weight, and more. But, these little life stresses are affecting your emotional, mental, physical, health. And, on top of this, you’re having to balance increased difficulty in your relationships. It can all seem like too much.
At Healing Generations Counseling, I help families at every level work together to address family problems and solve them. I work with families who have young children, blended families, intergenerational trauma, bio families, and families in life transitions. I provide perspective and tools to help families create stronger, more meaningful relationships with each other.
Common issues that bring families to Counseling
Being part of a family is both a blessing and a curse. Sometimes the people we love the most, cause us the most stress. Likewise, life changes can impact how your family connects and communicates. Here are some of the common reasons families attend therapy in Long Beach, CA.
They want to improve positive communication
Family conflict
Child or Teen behavioral issues
They want to create a better functioning family household
Fear of change or lack of control
Substance use and/or codependency
Struggles with one family member’s depression, anxiety, isolation, suicide, mania,
Loneliness or hopelessness
Imposter syndrome
Identifying as a "bad mom" bad daughter, bad boss, bad husband.
Experiencing grief and loss or loss of a parent
Struggling to find connection
Marriage, divorce, separation, and remarriage
Pregnancy
It’s time to reach out for help if your state of well-being is affected
Addressing the issues you’re having won’t make your situation perfect, but it will put you on a path to healing as you decide how to move forward as a family. It’s important to understand that there are many reasons you may come into therapy. You may be dealing with stress and overwhelm from tension in your family. This can manifest into physical symptoms.
If you or your loved ones are experiencing insomnia, nightmares, fatigue, lack of interest in life, difficulty maintaining relationships, disinterest in social activities, isolation, emotional outbursts, anxiety, stress or burnout, easily startled chronic migraines, pains, and body aches, lack of appetite or bingeing of food to cope, increased drinking or difficulty leaving the house, it may be time to address the underlying issues with your families mental health.
Family Therapy can help Your family reconnect
Often people feel like a failure and are embarrassed to tell their story or don't know where to begin to address the problem within the family unit. Commonly, people wonder if their family can be fixed, or they question rather they are the problem. I know this time is scary. Nothing seems straightforward and you may feel stressed, overwhelmed, or upset about how life is changing, but therapy can help organize those fears.
My Approach to Family Counseling
At Healing Generations Counseling, you will begin to recognize and identify how your family responds to life transitions. I will help you ground yourself and find balance in your reality of life transitions to help normalize your experiences. You will be able to reassess stressful situations so they do not continue to feel like an unbeatable challenge. While you cannot control everything with your loved ones, I will help you learn to let go of the unchangeable. Ultimately, I want to provide you with the tools to help you overcome these challenges and see them as opportunities for growth and change.
Family therapy is a safe and honest space to put on the table what is really going on. You can receive resources and tangible coping strategies to help you overcome future challenges. Life transitions happen, but your family doesn’t have to struggle. You can conquer your fears and communicate better. I would be honored to be your therapist to walk through this time with you. Whether you’re a mom, a student, a father, a teen, or anyone in between, counseling can help you take a breath.
What is holding you back from beginning family therapy?
Talking to a therapist is a big next step. However, by addressing your situation, you can finally take off the mask with yourself and your family. It’s important to acknowledge what you are going through and most importantly. Most importantly, know that you’re not alone. There is a silver lining that can help you find a new normal. It is time to move forward and let go, so you and your family can thrive and become closer.
Begin FamilyTherapy for Life Transitions In Long Beach, CA
No one ever gets through life without undergoing some type of change, so when it happens, don’t fight it, make the change that helps you and your family grow closer together. At Healing Generations Counseling, you and your loved ones will work with a family therapist who specializes in therapy for life transitions and family issues. To get started, schedule your free consultation, or get in contact with me by following these simple steps to begin counseling in Orange County:
Meet with me! Connie Hsu, your understanding therapist
Begin moving forward with your family today!
Other Mental Health Services at Healing Generations Counseling
Family Therapy isn’t the only service I offer in my in-office and online Long Beach, CA counseling practice. Other mental health services at Healing Generations Counseling include individual therapy, multicultural counseling/cross-cultural counseling, marriage counseling and couples therapy, divorce recovery, trauma therapy, therapy for teens, and EMDR therapy, support groups for women, and support groups for teens. All sessions are offered via online therapy in California, with limited in-person options. Begin therapy today in Long Beach, CA, Orange County, CA, Los Angeles County, CA. I look forward to walking through your family’s life transitions and guiding you through the different stages of changes.