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In-Home Family Counseling in the Greater Sacramento Area
Brick Road Counseling’s specialty is in-home Family Counseling—we love helping families regain hope that they can function better, find fulfillment, and be happier together.
“Family Therapy … [is] a form of psychotherapy that focuses on the improvement of interfamilial relationships and behavioral patterns of the family unit as a whole, as well as among individual members and groupings, or subsystems, within the family … See also conjoint therapy; couples therapy; family group psychotherapy; family systems theory.” American Psychological Association, Dictionary of Psychology (2021).
Family Counseling is a particular approach to psychotherapy that involves collaboration with members of a family to enhance their cohesiveness as a functioning unit. As opposed to addressing issues solely on an individual basis, family therapy recognizes that problems rarely occur in isolation; every member of the family plays a role because everyone in the family matters.
As part of Family Counseling, the therapist usually meets with the individuals as well as the other members of the family. Where children are the impetus behind seeking counseling, the younger the children are, the more the family is the focus of treatment.
While traditional office-based talk therapies commonly last for years, our approach to Family Counseling is clear from the beginning—we want to get your family on their own road as soon as possible. Following a ramping on / steady state / ramping off structure, Family Counseling usually occurs weekly for the first three months, with each session focusing on identifying goals, building skills, and implementing plans. When younger children are involved, Family Counseling often includes the development of Behavior Plans [link], with the first four sessions focusing on child behavior data collection. Then, as your family function begins to shift positively, our sessions become less frequent, from weekly, to every-other-week, to monthly, to semi-annually, or as needed.
Example Family Counseling Glidepath
- Weeks 1 through 10: Ramping On—weekly meetings—Data collection, Behavior Plan development, and presentation
- Weeks 11 through 25: Steady State—every-other-week meetings—Behavior Plan implementation and refinement
- Weeks 26+: Ramping Off—monthly meetings—Goal check-ins and fine-tuning of parental tools
We genuinely love our client-families and want them to succeed—so our goal is to not see them after a year.
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