Family Therapy

Family Therapy is a key part of Briony Barton’s service in Adelaide. She is a highly experienced family therapist and helps families from all ethnic, economic and religious backgrounds. 

LGBTQ families and couples are welcome.

What can Family Therapy Help with?

What is Family Therapy?

This specialized therapy helps understand and treat emotional problems and crises by working with the entire family, rather than just the individual. Therapy sessions focus on understanding thoughts, feelings, and behaviour within the family. The goal is to harness and strengthen family resources, and help family members to work collaboratively towards solutions to their problems.

You can learn skills to deepen family connections and get through stressful times, even after you’re finished going to therapy sessions.

This type of therapy is often short term. It may include all family members or just those able or willing to participate. Your specific treatment plan will depend on your family’s situation.

Note that children 12 years and under should be seen by a specialist in child psychology.

Family Therapy Aims To:

Sourced from: Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice UK.

Who Should Attend Family Therapy?

Research shows Family Therapy is useful for children, young people and adults experiencing a very wide range of difficulties and experiences.

This type of therapy is often short term. It may include all family members or just those able or willing to participate. Your specific treatment plan will depend on your family’s situation. 

Family therapy sessions can teach you skills to deepen family connections and get through stressful times, even after you’re done going to therapy sessions.

Note that children 12 years and under should be seen by a specialist in child psychology.

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Why Choose Briony for Family Therapy?

Briony trained at the Dulwich Centre in Adelaide, the world renowned narrative therapy training and therapy centre over 30 years ago and has been practicing since. Established by one of the world’s foremost family therapist Michael White, narrative family therapy focuses on the myriad strengths that individual and families have that get lost and forgotten in a climate of problems. 

Briony has also completed the family therapy course at Bower Place which takes a systemic view of families and their problems. It attempts to assist families by looking at all the people and organisations that are part of that family’s life.

Briony has three levels of training in the world renowned Gottman Couple Training, one of a small number of South Australians to do so. See here for a full list of Briony’s qualifications and training.