Our Fees for
Family Counselling
Single session - HK$1100
The duration of each session is 60 minutes
Who needs Family Therapy?
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If you want to understand and solve your presenting issues and make positive changes.
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If you want to rediscover the fundamental interconnectedness among your family members or other significant others.
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If you want to look at the family structure, the relationship with other social systems, and to find a different way out.
Goals of Family Therapy
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Helps you solve your problems from the systemic view
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Helps you explore your personal cognition, family dynamics, the interpersonal relationship among members as well as the influence from the larger system.
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Helps you rediscover and activate resources in the family and open up for new possibilities.
Examples of Presenting Problems
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My 8-year-old son has heated temper. He always fights with his brother.
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My daughter refuses to listen to me. Every time when I ask her to stop playing and do homework, she runs to my wife.
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My husband has an external marital affair and I am very depressed.
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My 10-year-old daughter always quarrels with her step-father and she does not tell me how she feels.
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My elder teenager idles at home playing computer and refuses to go to school.
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I can’t get along with my mother-in-law and feel my husband does not support me.
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I don’t have any motivation to work or meet friends after my mother died.
If you relate to the above situations or have similar experiences, you are welcome to make an appointment with our therapists.
Family Counselling
Family therapy recognizes that human behaviours and emotions are significantly influenced by our interpersonal relationships in our nuclear family and family of origin, as well as the interaction with the rest of the society (such as: schools, peers, churches, companies, the media, etc.).
Family therapists explore family issues from the systemic perspective.
Scope of Our Family Therapy Service
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Children and adolescents’ emotional and behavioural problems including school refusal, low motivation, over-dependency, anxiety, crying, high tempered, conflicts with parents
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Late adolescents’ distress and uncertainty
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Dating challenges, pre-marital anxiety, couple relationships, marital distress, external marital affairs
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Parenting in nuclear, single, remarriage families as well as in HK-Mainland marriage families
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Intergenerational relationship problems including in-law relationship, emotional dependent to family of origin
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Adjustments in change of roles in family such as being new mother or father
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Middle-aged crisis
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Stress on retirement
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Elderly mental health
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Bereavement and loss on major life events such as deaths, incidents or loss of health
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Emotional problems affecting sleep, health, work and/or relationship
Can I come by myself?
Yes, you can. Family therapy does not merely count on the number of participants. Individuals can also have family therapy where the family therapist facilitates them to view their issues in a systemic view and wider perspectives on a safe platform to find the possibilities.
Individuals, couples and families can be treated by family therapy.
References:
- Minuchin, S., Nichols, M.P., & Lee, W.Y. (2007). Assessing families and couples from symptom to system. Boston: Pearson.
- Nichols, M.P., & Schwartz, R.C. (2008), Family therapy concepts and methods (8th ed.). Boston: Pearson.