Our Family Therapy Program helps the families and loved ones of our veterans who are experiencing psychological, emotional and relational problems.
Experience has taught us how critical the involvement, support, and understanding of loved ones are to the healing process, as mental health disorders are profoundly difficult, painful, and disruptive. Oftentimes mental health disorders involve years of suffering for not just the veteran, but the entire family and others. Family and loved ones experience almost every emotion from frustration to helplessness, to confusion, vulnerability, anxiety, and heartbreak. Mental illness strains every relationship and leaves in its wake devastating emotional distress for all.
Family and couples therapy can provide a safe, supportive environment in which to develop the insight and skills for all to begin to heal together.
Purpose of the Family Therapy Program
The purpose of the Family Program is to improve communication and coping skills for all involved. The clinicians and relationship experts at our mental health treatment center work with families and loved ones by providing proven tools, education and strategies to improve existing family dynamics and to optimize communication. These skills are also highly beneficial in proactively resolving issues, rather than reacting to problematic behaviors after they have surfaced.
Our family program can be highly successful in improving family dynamics by improving communication skills, educating family members to triggers, and challenges and developing prevention strategies.We instruct families and loved ones how to minimize household stress levels, identify early warning signs of issues and to break patterns of codependency
Pyschoeducation
Education and understanding of the mental disorders that afflict the veteran and the resultant behaviors are the critical first components of therapy. The supportive and knowledgeable therapists at our psychiatric facility will provide understanding around the mental health disorder the veteran suffering from and will answer all the questions the family has to fully understand what their loved one is experiencing.
Improving Family Dynamics
Even healthy relationship can be complicated, much more so family relationships wherein one member suffers from mental illness. Family and loved ones’ therapy can identify detrimental behaviors like enabling, co-dependency and over-involvement. Families can learn skills to create new behavior patterns and perspectives.
Family Therapy Options
Family Therapy Sessions at Solara
Therapy and educational, skills building sessions conducted at our treatment center on a weekly interval.
Remote Family Sessions
Therapy sessions conducted by phone or Skype for families who are not able to come to our Solara Mental Health treatment center.
Solara’s Family Therapy for Veterans
We provide families and loved ones with proven tools, education, and strategies to improve existing family dynamics and optimize communication at our mental health treatment center. We understand this is a complex and broad term that requires the guidance and assistance of our qualified staff at our facility.
Solara Treatment for the Veteran’s Family and Loved Ones
Group therapy sessions are led by one or two of our therapists, who specialize in the group’s thematic purpose. Veterans openly share and communicate with each other while experts guide their conversations about specific issues that may arise within these frames – all without any expectation for payment beyond your time spent there! Understanding each veteran’s specific diagnosis is crucial for the treatment, that’s why at Solara Mental Health San Diego our staff of professionals is ready to assist each patient accordingly through a personalized treatment plan.
Access Through VA Community Care
Solara Mental Health is VA-contracted, which gives us the unique opportunity to help veterans with their mental health needs. Once authorization is approved, we provide housing, transportation, and accommodations.
Lasting Healing
The mission of our mental health treatment center is to enable our veterans and their families to continue with durable wellness and family function long after completing our program. Family therapy provides the optimal setting wherein plans and strategies are established for the best possible family life after treatment.
Please contact us to discuss our family and loved ones’ services and learn more about how we support not just our veterans but their families, as well.