Purpose For Life Counselling

Family Support

Family Support

Our family therapists provide a safe and supportive space for families to address a range of issues, including communication difficulties, conflict resolution, parenting challenges, blended family dynamics, and grief and loss. We utilise a family-centered approach that empowers each family member to understand their role and contribute to a healthier and more fulfilling family life.

Family Support

Purpose for Life is here to help your family communicate better and work through any issues that are affecting your family and its members. Ian has worked with families throughout Sydney and NSW, of which all have different and unique dynamics and their own unique challenges.

A family is made up of individuals with unique personalities, needs, strengths, and weaknesses. The dynamics can sometimes become complicated and confusing, especially when managing blended families, potential separation or divorce. Whatever the issue, seeking help is just a telephone call away.

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    Helping with whole family meetings or one one-on-one counselling

    Unless you have read extensively or done professional studies in parenting, seeking a family guide in times of difficult family situations can be the next best decision you, or anyone, can make. Whether it is parenting, coping with the development of family members at various stages of their lives or some immediate family conflict counselling, Ian can offer a way forward.

    Being a parent isn’t easy and parenting a teenager has its own unique challenges, which is where Ian can help in opening the channels of communication, with the aim of improving your relationship with your teenage son or daughter. Offering whole of family meetings or one on one counselling he can work through conflicts focusing on individual responsibility and rational parenting.

    Family therapy can:

    • Explore with each family member how families, in general, and their own families function.
    • Help you improve troubled relationships with your spouse, children, or other family members.
    • Help the family focus less on the scapegoated member and more on the family as a whole.
    • Strengthen all family members so they can work on their problems together.
    • Help to identify underlying conflicts and anxieties as well as providing strategies to resolve them.
    • Provide family members with tools to handle conflicts and changes within the family differently.
    • Develop communication skills for each family member so as to deepen family connections, help understand one another better, and bring each of you closer together, even after the therapy sessions have ended.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Why Consider Counselling?

    Do you feel like your life is going nowhere? Are you struggling to find your purpose? Do you feel as if there is some sort of barrier that prevents you from living life to the fullest? These are some of the common complaints heard, and counselling can help provide clarity and a path.

    Whether you are looking for individual or couple’s therapy, help for your child, your family, or struggling with addiction, counselling can help you manage and work through these issues.

    From your first phone conversation Ian is right beside you for your entire journey. He uses a warm and relaxed style, while keeping the time focused and structured. He utilises evidenced based psychotherapy practices, creative tools, and a whole person approach.

    By going to the Contact Us section of this website, you can send an email or alternatively give Ian a call or text on 0434 355 446.

    He works early or late during the week to meet his clients’ needs.

    2:00PM to 9:00PM  Mondays

    8:00AM to 9:00PM  Tuesday to Thursdays.

    The duration of counselling can vary from one session to several years, depending on circumstances. This subject would be discussed at the first meeting and generally, three to six sessions are allowed for and then this is reviewed.

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    I am here to help you with all of life’s challenges.

      My Client Reviews

      “When I started thinking I wanted to kill myself I knew I needed help. Thankfully I found Ian on the internet. I am now living life better and no longer have those feelings that at the time were so overwhelming.”

      Matthew

      “Ian gave us communication tools to work through our disagreements. He was fantastic and our marriage is now better, stronger and twice the fun. We would highly recommend Ian”

      Robert