Healmind Kalamasery, Kochi, Kerala

Family therapy employs a variety of skills and approaches that are used to evaluate, clarify and support a person’s interactions and relationships with family, friends and significant others. Depending on the presenting problems, style of relationship dysfunction and/or level of dysfunction in the family system(s), it is intended to help families recognize and change maladaptive behaviors that may be contributing to the patient’s symptoms or condition. Family therapists provide services using methods adopted from a variety of schools of thought including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), solution focused brief therapy (SFBT), family systems therapy, object relations theory, interpersonal psychotherapy, psychodynamic theory, and attachment theory.