
Your family has been struggling. Things aren’t right at home. Your kids snap at each other. You and your partner feel exhausted. At this point, the little time you all spend together isn’t enjoyable anymore. What went wrong?
Well, there are many reasons your family could be struggling. It’s important to remember that families are complex units. This complexity is because many different individuals make up the family structure. This also includes the many different personalities in a family. The whole family system can feel the effects based on how each family member is doing. This may be on a mental, emotional, physical, and financial level.
Additionally, keep in mind that families include anyone who plays an important, long-term support role for each other. Our families are not made up of those related on a biological level. This includes people from all parts of our lives. And families can fluctuate, adding and removing individuals over a lifetime. So yes, families are complex!
Reasons Families Try Therapy
Every family is unique. We all have our own:
Histories
- Cultures
- Expectations
- Norms
- Beliefs
- Value systems
When a conflict in the family arises, there can be many issues at hand. It’s often not only one thing leading to conflict. So, as your family goes through this season of hardship, remember relationships are complicated. Especially large, complex relationships like the ones that take place within families. Give yourself and your family compassion and patience.
Transitions in Families
As touched on earlier, families can fluctuate. And sadly, family members will die. Grief and loss are challenging. When you as a parent go through grief, supporting a child or partner through that too can be exhausting. It feels like there’s just so much sadness. And it’s heavy. Working with a family therapist can help not only you as a parent work through grief. It can also give you the tools to help your loved ones through it, too.
Yet, families expand, too! The concept of blending families or bringing in new family members can create a host of its own problems. What happens if step-siblings don’t get along? How do you and your partner navigate parenting your own children vs each other’s children? What if your older children have too much of an age gap from their new siblings? How do you deal with your elderly parent moving in while little ones are running around?
These are big questions! And the answers are often not as straightforward as we’d like. But, many families have received support and guidance for situations like these. The family therapists at our Roswell, GA-based therapy practice would be happy to help.
Child Development

Your babies are growing up! You blinked, and now they’re asking to stay out later. Or, they may wear new and different clothes, and may even raise their voice at you. A big complexity to throw into family challenges is the dreaded p-word: puberty. Until now, you’ve been able to handle your kiddos’ outbursts. But now that they’re a preteen or teenagers, their words have more bite. They know what to say and how to push your buttons. This can often create or add to family conflict!
And what do you do when you have more than one child between the ages of 12 and 20? Oof! While this can be a trying period of your children’s lives, it also can be so special. But sometimes parents and siblings need extra support to communicate and connect with teens. It does not make you a bad parent to need some help while your child goes through puberty. The big feelings and hormones can make it overwhelming. And they can definitely contribute to the tension in the home. Consider talking with a family therapist for support. They can help you and your child during this essential time in their development.
Broken Relationships
Like in any relationship in life, hurt happens. As children grow older and develop, they start to have some big feelings. When they were little, it wasn’t this hard. They didn’t have strong opinions or the words to communicate them.
Now, your children may go-rounds with each other, bickering over the tiniest matters. You feel like there’s nothing you can do to get them on the same page again. Will they ever like each other? Or there may have been hurt or betrayal in or around the family. There’s distrust with one another, making it hard to even spend time together. You worry about how this will turn out in the long term.
Family Therapy in Roswell, GA Can Help
If any of the above cases feel familiar, it may be time to consider working with a family therapist. Yes, it’s a big decision to give therapy a try. There may be some resistance from your partner. Or, your kiddos, or culture that doesn’t agree with discussing private matters outside of the family unit. There are challenges to getting an entire family unit on board with therapy. But, our family therapists can help individual family members or the whole family find something beneficial about counseling.

Are you concerned about your family, due to a current issue or an ongoing problem? If so, it might be time to reach out for family therapy at our Roswell, GA-located therapy practice. Our family therapists are passionate about helping those in family units work through past pain. Together, they work to find brighter futures.
Begin Family Therapy in Roswell, GA
You and your family deserve support in addressing the issues that matter to you most. Our team of caring therapists would be honored to offer that support. We offer support from our Roswell, GA-based therapy practice. To start your therapy journey, please follow these steps:
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Meet with a caring therapist
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Start a hopeful new year!
Other Services Offered with Wellview Counseling
Family therapy isn’t the only service provided at our Roswell, GA-based practice. This includes anxiety treatment, depression counseling, trauma and PTSD treatment, chronic illness counseling, and therapy for postpartum anxiety and depression. Other mental health services include child counseling and play therapy, individual counseling, teen counseling, and young adult counseling. Learn more about our social groups for kids, and online therapy services today. Or, feel free to visit our blog for more helpful information!
It got my attention when you said that you must consider family therapy when the members of the family develop a distrust of one another. This is something that I will share with my sister so her family can consider an intensive outpatient family program. She mentioned that her three children don’t talk and bond as normally as before, and they keep arguing over little things that happened years ago.