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Family-Therapeutic Relationship Work

for families, parents and couples

A relationship is a system. In a system, every change affects the whole. When one part tips over, everything moves. We do not work with blame or pathologisation. We look at patterns, protective behaviours, loyalties and unspoken expectations.

Key topics in therapy

  • Recurring conflicts
  • Speechlessness
  • Transitions and upheavals
  • Separation and patchwork families
  • Stress surrounding a child
  • Decision node: stay, leave, reorganize

You don't just want to resolve conflicts, you want to truly understand each other?

Our family therapy work helps uncover relationship dynamics. Let’s work together to determine how your family therapy process will be structured.
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Our Approach: Integrative Relationship and Process Work within the Family System

1. Joint Start

The family system is invited to participate. The family comes together for the initial assessment and to clarify the process. Relationship dynamics become apparent, initial hypotheses emerge, and a shared understanding is developed.

2. Differentiated Process Work

Depending on their needs, children receive individual support or participate in a group (sensory, emotional, social). At the same time, parents work in individual or couple sessions or in a parent group. The goal is parallel development across multiple levels.

It often becomes clear during the course of the work which level is central.
– the couple level
– the parent level
– the overall family dynamics
– or individual relationships within the system

This level is not determined in advance but emerges from the shared process. Adolescents are not persuaded to participate. If their participation is not appropriate or possible, we continue working with the adults without pathologizing the child.

We facilitate many processes in a co-setting. Two people lead the process. Two perspectives open up the space. Sometimes individual sessions with individual family members are helpful. These appointments are part of the overall process. They do not replace it. They support it.

3. Integration into the Family System

Finally, the entire family is brought back together. Changes are integrated, new relationship patterns are stabilized, and the family experiences them together.

Implicit and explicit learning intertwine: experiences felt in the body, through play, and within relationships are reflected upon and applied to everyday life.

Children in the family system

When families come because of a child, the following applies in the process work: children are not the source of the problem. They are often the expression of stress in the system. We look at attachment patterns, unspoken conflicts, projections and excessive demands. Relief often comes when adults take responsibility.

Therapeutic Group Programs

Promotion of emotional and social development through movement, play, improvisation and relational experience.
  • Children’s Group (7–11 years)
  • Saturday 09:30 am
  • Topics: feelings, social safety, self-confidence, contact with other children
  • Youth Group (13–16 years)
  • Wednesday 5:00 pm
  • Topics: feelings, friendships, conflicts, school, self-confidence
  • Youth Group (17–21 years)
  • Wednesday 6:30 pm
  • Topics: self-worth, relationships, conflicts, stress, identity
  • Parent Group
  • Saturday 11:00 am
  • Topics: managing behavior, relationships, relief, orientation

Terms and conditions

The specific scope and costs will be agreed transparently following an initial consultation. Depending on the issues involved, the support may include both psychotherapeutic and occupational therapy elements.

The relevant services are provided in accordance with the applicable legal provisions and on different billing bases.

As part of psychotherapeutic treatment for children, adolescents or young adults up to the age of 21, parents or family carers may be involved. These sessions form part of the child’s, adolescent’s or young adult’s psychotherapy and may be eligible for reimbursement depending on the individual insurance policy.
The same applies to treatment within the framework of occupational therapy, although this can be prescribed regardless of age.
In addition, we offer independent family-related support as a self-pay service.

  • Duration: 60–90 minutes
  • Price per individual session: 120-150 euros
  • Co-session price: 240-300 euros
  • Group course price: 50 euros per person
  • Location: Praxis Wormser Straße 28 in 69123 Heidelberg oder Online

FAQs

Family therapy relationship work for deeper emotional processes and systemic patterns

Is it coaching or therapy?

Many people use the term “coaching” as a collective term for support. Our work is therapeutically based process work with the family system. It is not technique-oriented, but rather relationship- and process-oriented.

At the same time, we work without assigning blame or pathologising. The focus is on relationships, inner processes and systemic understanding.

Relationship coaching is often solution- and goal-oriented and works with methods, tasks or communication rules.

Family therapy process work goes deeper: it incorporates unconscious patterns, attachment experiences, projections and loyalties. Communication is not trained, but understood and changed in the context of relationships.

Counselling is mostly advisory and orientational. Process work is supportive and experience-oriented.

The focus is not on the question “What should we do?”, but rather “What is happening here between us and what does this system need in order to change?”

Cash therapy is part of a healthcare system with fixed guidelines, such as diagnoses, treatment logic and time quotas.

Our work takes place outside this system. This allows for greater flexibility in the composition of participants, the frequency of meetings, and the content of discussions.

Therapeutic work with family systems.

We work with families and all members involved, as well as their relationships with each other (relationship coaching, couples counselling, family counselling). The specific composition (parents, couples, children, individuals) is determined by the process and the respective issue.

The focus is on relationships, dynamics and systemic understanding, not on diagnoses, blame or quick fixes.

Within a co-therapeutic process, it may be useful to hold sessions with individual family members from time to time.

These meetings are part of the overall process.

That depends on your issues and goals. Many clients feel a change after just a few sessions.

Individual and family proceedings usually take place every two to three weeks.

Group courses comprise ten sessions with fixed dates.

In addition to individual and family processes, structured group courses are offered.

Parent Course – Relationship Work within the Family System:
– Online group process
– 10 sessions

Couples Course – Relationship Work within the Couple and Family System:
– Online group process
– 10 sessions

For families, parents and couples who are prepared to take responsibility and understand relationships as a joint process.

It is not suitable for people who expect only quick solutions, techniques or pure symptom treatment.