Systemic Family Therapy
Systemic Family Therapy
Background
Following a need identified in the area, the family therapy service was set up in September 2000 as a pilot of the Wimbledon Guild Counselling Service (WGCS). The service has continued and developed following the pilot to ensure families have access to quality family therapy in the local area.
Aim
Our primary aim is to provide accessible systemic family therapy for persons residing or working in the London Borough of Merton.
What is Systemic Family Therapy?
Family systemic psychotherapy is a collaborative therapeutic process, which seeks to resolve difficulties, concerns and serious worries about patterns of relationships, within partnerships, families, wider social groups and work place contexts.
Systemic psychotherapists think about people in relationship to others. They believe people both influence and are influenced by others within a relationship system. People belong to a number of relationship systems at any given time, family, peer, professional, educational, religious, cultural amongst others.
Systemic Psychotherapists work with all types of people and the systems they are members of, individually, as couples or as families. Issues may include some of the following:
Systemic psychotherapists think about people in relationship to others. They believe people both influence and are influenced by others within a relationship system. People belong to a number of relationship systems at any given time, family, peer, professional, educational, religious, cultural amongst others.
Systemic Psychotherapists work with all types of people and the systems they are members of, individually, as couples or as families. Issues may include some of the following:
- Family breakdown: separation from loved ones
- Couple relationship difficulties: heterosexual and gay or lesbian partnership issues
- Conflict within the family
- Traumas: bereavement and loss
- Self esteem issues
- Living with pain or illness
- Stress and managing change, including depression which results from circumstances
- Employment issues: harassment, competence and working with others
- Dilemmas in relation to self, others and the culture we live in
- Distress related to past experiences, maybe from childhood
How to obtain help
Making an appointment
- Pop into The Wimbledon Guild (30 – 32 Worple Road Wimbledon SW19 4EF) and make a time to see one of our friendly counsellors.
- Call 020 8296 0030 to organise your first appointment.
Our Family Therapy Clinics currently run from 2pm-6pm Tuesdays & Thursdays, and sessions can occasionally be arranged at other times.
First meeting
- At your first meeting you will talk to a family therapist about the things that you would like to change.
- At this session the therapist will explain about the service and what we can offer.
- An average of 8 – 12 sessions can then be arranged at 2 -3 weekly intervals.
- Sessions will last between 1 – 1½ hours.
- You may have to wait for a vacancy to arise.
- If we feel that another service may be more helpful to you we will discuss that with you and endeavour to give advice about other resources in the community.
Counselling fee structure:
The Wimbledon Guild is a charity and does not make profits. From the beginning, the service was committed to providing quality counselling, even if the client was only able to contribute minimally towards the cost. This has meant that the service has been subsidised from the start by The Wimbledon Guild, and is yet another way in which donations have been used to benefit those in need. Contributions towards the cost of providing the counselling are negotiated with the clients on an individual basis. We will take into account a clients’ income. There is a non refundable booking fee for the first consultation.