Family therapy

Our relationships are what matter most to us. Family therapy helps people in close relationships help each other. We will support family members to share and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely and in confidence. We can help you to understand each others experiences and views, to appreciate each others needs, to build on family strengths and to make useful challenges in your relationships and your lives - as individuals and as a family. We will help you overcome issues and challenges, build your confidence and resilience as a family unit, and develop your capacity to overcome future challenges.

Family can mean different things to different people and we will meet with whoever is important to you. We see individuals, couples, children of all ages, grandparents, siblings, adult children with their parents, looked after children, aunties, uncles, friends, carers and other professionals. To find out more about our work with families please email us.
Please note we have appointments available for this service and depending on matching times and dates a first appointment could be set up within 3-4 weeks from referral.

We can help you and your family with (for example):

  • Family communication

  • Child and adolescent behaviour difficulties (troubled and troublesome)

  • Parenting issues

  • Mental health and addiction issues

  • Gender issues

  • Eating disorders

  • Depression and self harming

  • Relationships issues

  • Physical illness and disability

  • Separation, divorce, and step family life

  • Fostering, adoption, kinship care

  • Loss of loved one

  • Immigration and issues faced by refugee families


Charges
Your first appointment costs £40 and is a meeting where we talk with you and agree what help we can offer. Thereafter you will be asked to contribute a minimum of £40 towards each of your sessions, up to a maximum of £80 dependent on your household income. Please ask about costs at your intake meeting and the amount you feel you can contribute.

We are a charity and so ask all our clients to make a contribution to the cost of our services.

The contributions cover our operational costs, enabling us to pay our professional staff a competitive rate and to support clients who need to pay a lower contribution.  Your contributions help us to provide Family Therapy to families throughout the Lothians. Details of contributions and how to pay are on the registration form.