Family counseling offers a safe space to explore the complex dynamics within your family, helping each member feel seen, heard, and valued. Together, we work to heal past hurts, resolve conflicts, and build new patterns that nurture healthy, lasting relationships.
At True Hope Christian Counseling, we are here to guide your family toward deeper connections, greater understanding, and more meaningful communication.
Our approach is flexible, designed to meet your unique needs. Whether it’s spouses, parents, children (young or adult), grandparents, siblings, or any other family members, we’re here to support you in creating the harmony and peace your family desires.
How Can Family Counseling Heal Your Family?
Family members serve as some of the most influential relationships and connections we form in our lives and investing in a healthy family system has profound impacts on the mental health of each member of that system.
If your family relationships have become difficult, you might feel frustrated, misunderstood, unloved, or worse yet - defeated. But there is hope - and we can help!
Within families, each member brings their own personalities, ideals, priorities, feelings, goals, etc and as such, family dynamics are often ever-changing, complex and difficult to uncover. Family counseling provides a dedicated, safe space outside of your daily environment to invest in the system, and thereby each other and yourself.
As family counselors, we focus this work by allowing each member your family to be heard. The third party perspective that counselors offer promotes deepened empathy between family members enabling them to separate the problem from each other. A professional counselor can guide your family to uncover hidden sources of shame, resentment and conflict and even destructive generational patterns within the family system so that, as a team, these can be eliminated, disagreements can be addressed and new structures of support and emotional safety can be created and maintained.
Is Family Counseling Right for Me?
Family therapy is designed for anybody seeking to improve the connections, behaviors and dynamics within your family, so there is no “wrong” time to seek support in taking meaningful steps towards this goal. In fact, because family members serve as some of the longest term relationships we form in our lifetime, the complex dynamics in most any family can benefit from the fresh perspective, guidance, and support that family counseling supplies.
If you have questions about your family and whether counseling is the right fit for you, we invite you to contact us for a free phone consultation, so we can discuss your goals and how best to help support your family in achieving these.
Our Approach to Family Counseling:
At True Hope Christian Counseling, we approach family relationship in the same way that we approach life, through a biblical lens and in this way, we recognize that the ultimate objective is to honor God in how we interact within a family.
As Christian counselors, we integrate research based therapeutic approaches such as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with biblical truths to help establish healthy family structures and patterns that last.
The shared faith experienced between yourself and your counselor creates an ideological cohesiveness that serves as the foundation through which we help form solutions to problems addressed in counseling. This basis aligns objectives, promotes healthy conflict resolution, informs identity and orients decisions and behaviors between each member of your family to ultimately promote greater mental, emotional and spiritual health.
Family Counseling FAQs
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It is not uncommon for us to see families who feel that their relationships are too broken and are beyond repair. In many cases, these families are tired; they’ve lived within conflict, accumulated resentment, hurt and shame and despite their efforts, solutions have only served as temporary “bandaids” for short term relief - only for resentments and rifts to deepen when patterns ultimately repeat themselves.
It can feel isolating and frustrating when you are entrenched within a difficult family system, but the truth is that there is hope and family counseling can work.
Family counseling is not about finding “bandaids” or quick fixes. It is about uncovering hidden sources of disconnect within the family and practicing empathy so that unhealthy or even destructive patterns can be addressed and eliminated. This creates space within the family for true improved relationship.
Through family counseling, families develop healthy boundaries, improve communication, understand each other better, clarify roles, deepen connection, strengthen support systems, and learn new strategies for problem solving to ultimately find new peace. The emotional health and safety cultivated in counseling benefits each individual within the system and can enable families to better tackle new seasons together.
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In every family system there is conflict and while the context of conflict differs from family to family, it is often derived from disagreement on goals or ‘best practices’ for the family. Some common experiences that bring families to counseling are:
Resentment or grudges formed between family members
Frequently strained, heated or avoided communication between family members
Inconsistencies in child-rearing between parents and/or extended family members
Navigating the integration of two separate family units in a newly blended family
Seeking structures to form a functional and healthy co-parenting relationship after divorce
Adapting to a major change in family life including a move, a child leaving the home, financial changes, new life stages (such as teenage years), etc
Coping with the diagnosis of a chronic illness, death of a loved one, or traumatic event
Seeking to cope with and support a loved one with mental illness
The feeling of isolation in a family member or a family member who feels they do not “fit” within the system
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MYTH #1: FAMILY COUNSELING IS TOO TIME CONSUMING AND HARD TO COORDINATE TO BE EFFECTIVE
Anytime we approach counseling with multiple participants, scheduling and time constraints become more difficult to coordinate. Each member of the family has their own calendar of obligations and so finding time to connect can be a challenge. However, persistent conflicts in scheduling would indicate even more strongly that counseling is an important next step rather than serve as a deterrent.
A healthy family dynamic grows from the investment of participants within the system, including investments of their time and energy. As such, reprioritizing family time can be appropriate as it benefits not only the system as a whole, but yourself and each other member of the unit. Regularly scheduled counseling sessions create a dedicated space within our busy lives to consistently invest in the growth and healing of relationships in the family.
MYTH #2: MY FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS ARE TOO DAMAGED FOR COUNSELING
Family counseling happens all the time - oftentimes we seek counsel from friends, other family members or loved ones who weigh in on conflict and dynamics within our family. Despite best intentions, this advice and counsel is often biased and is not derived from research but rather limited personal experience. Efforts based on this advice can lead us to feel that our family is beyond repair, too difficult, too broken, or too mismatched for any type of long term growth.
At True Hope Christian Counseling, we see many families who have spent years trying to resolve conflict and have grown tired and defeated in the process. This is where we can help. When family members approach therapy willing to invest in and grow through professional counseling, there is hope for healing, reconnection and long term relational health. A third party, unbiased professional counselor can offer a fresh perspective, deepened understanding of the dynamics at play, and new methods for finally resolving root sources of disagreement within the family.
MYTH #3: FAMILY COUNSELING IS ONLY USEFUL FOR INTERVENTION WITH ADDICTS
Interventional counseling is one category of family therapy that comes to mind often as it illustrates how the family is impacted by individuals within the system. In this case, the counseling focuses on the addiction of a family member and allows the family to address its impacts and provide support that promote positive change for the health of the individual and the group as a whole. While this is an apt example, the problems addressed in family counseling are not always addiction.
Family counseling can address any number of problems, differences or changes that impact the system. This could include but is not limited to mental illness, life changes, competing ideas of what is “best practice” for the family or parenting, mismatches in communication or personality, trauma, etc. Every family is unique and as such, the problems addressed in counseling will differ depending on their impact to the overall system
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Prior to your first session, each participant of counseling will want to access and complete your intake paperwork located on the client forms page. The correct forms to complete will depend on which family members will be participating. Upon scheduling, we will consult with you on the appropriate forms to complete for your family. We encourage you to bring a copy to your first session, or if you prefer you can arrive 10 minutes ahead of your scheduled time to complete these items.
In our first session, we will focus on getting to know each of you and what has brought you to family counseling. We will then discuss a plan for ongoing therapy as appropriate. The course of counseling will be unique to the needs of your family and through continued sessions we will discuss ongoing struggles, address root causes of conflict and disconnect within your relationships and implement positive changes to promote the long term health of your family unit.
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Family counseling is $150 for a standard 45 minute session.
The frequency and duration of sessions will depend on your family’s goals and can range from short term to longer term needs. During our first session, we will discuss these goals and what to expect for ongoing therapy.
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We recommend contacting your insurer to determine the specifics of whether family counseling will fall under the scope of your coverage. Oftentimes, family counseling will not be covered. However, there are cases where insurance may cover counseling for families coping with the mental illness of a family member.
If your insurance does provide coverage, note that True Hope Christian Counseling would be considered an out of network provider and at your request, we can supply a superbill for you to submit to your carrier for reimbursement.
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Our Colleyville office can accommodate in person sessions for groups or families with up to five in person participants.
For larger groups or to accommodate your unique scheduling needs, we also offer remote counseling options through secure and confidential online platforms wherein some or all members of the group can participate virtually.
In-home counseling is also available upon request. In-home counseling is a great solution for larger families or for families of any size who prefer that counseling take place within the context of your home environment. Costs for in-home counseling are based on travel time, length of session, etc, and we invite you to contact us for a quote and to inquire about in-home family counseling options.
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We are here to help.
We offer family counseling for families in Southlake, Grapevine, Colleyville, Roanoke, Keller, and the greater Tarrant County.