Typical cases where family therapy is recommended

  • communication difficulties, many fights in the family, long-standing family conflicts
  • behavioural/behavioural/learning/health problems in children
  • children with psychosomatic symptoms
  • problems in patch work or single-parent families living together
  • difficulties in settling in at nursery or school
  • adolescent conflicts that are difficult to manage
  • sibling conflicts
  • emotionally stressful life situations (e.g. divorce, job loss, death, illness in the family)
  • parent or child with psychiatric illness
  • adoption