Family Counselling Services in Altona, MB.

The family is the most intimate context where positive change can be nurtured and developed. Sometimes, in family, we find ourselves repeating roles from our own family's of origin or sometimes we find ourselves simply repeating a pattern of behaviour that maintains a "stuckness" that limits our family's development. When you are swept up into the emotional stream of family interaction, it is often difficult for any family member to see how what they do maintains family dysfunction. Family counseling provides an outside pair of eyes that can help facilitate a positive evolution in your family.

Most family therapists inadvertently create more chaos through their well-intentioned efforts to assist a family move through a change process. Why? Brains are inherently deregulated (all of us, may I add) and most talking and dialoguing misses brain-centric problems that need more intensive help. Many times the emotional trauma created by years of solving problems ineffectively can wreak havoc on the brain's parasympathetic nervous system, not ever giving the family a break from flight or fight thinking. Contact us for an innovative neuroscience solution to family dysfunction. Kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.

Families are systems of interconnected and interdependent individuals, none of whom can be understood in isolation from one another; the family is an emotional unit. As a therapist I view problems within the family as the result not of particular members' behaviors, but of the family's group dynamic. The family is seen as a complex system having its own language, roles, rules, beliefs, needs and patterns. As a therapist I endeavour to help each individual member understand how their childhood family operated, their role in that system, and how that experience has shaped their role in the current family.