Counseling services for individual,couples,and families help to encourage healthy relationships and improve the overall functioning of individuals at various life-cycle stages. The therapy provides a setting to explore underlying issues that may be preventing one from moving forward on a positive goal directed path. The counseling can help to encourage understanding and growth. Therapist can help one to develop skills to improve communication and build closer bonds.

Marriage and family therapists are mental health professionals who are licensed independently make an assessment and treat mental health and substance abuse problems. Marriage and family therapy is one of the central behavioral health practices and is based upon an approach that considers mental illness and family problems to be most effectively treated from the perspective of a holistic systems dimension. Marriage and family therapist are trained in psychotherapy and family systems and the the underlying premise of this approach is that the clients’ symptoms and  patterns of interaction exist within their environment. I recommend this link Marriage and and family therapy to get more information about how these services apply to the effective treatment of individuals, couples,and  families to resolve relationship issues.

Family therapy and couples therapy follows from a systems approach and is a form of psychotherapy  that treats families and couples in relationships and helps to encourage change.  This approach to therapy highlights the importance of addressing the individual in the context of the environment and its contribution toward behavioral health.