Outreach family therapy

In a protected environment, families work through their conflicts, develop new forms of communication and find sustainable solutions for their coexistence.

Understand relationships. Shape change.

Every family faces challenges: conflicts, misunderstandings, or entrenched communication patterns can put a strain on family life. If everyday family life is constantly suffering from tension and changes can no longer be achieved on one's own, Outreach Family Therapy (AFT) of familie gGmbH. targeted support.

This therapeutic offer is aimed at all family forms – traditional families, patchwork families, single parents or couples with children. Since 2008, we have been supporting families in stressful situations with a low-threshold, practical and systemically sound approach.

Goals of outreach family therapy

The aim of family therapy is to Better understand behavioral and relationship patternsto make entrenched dynamics visible and to develop new solutions together. The focus is on Family resources at the center. We strengthen what already exists – and help to open up new perspectives:

  • improve communication
  • Resolve conflicts and resolve them constructively
  • strengthen mutual understanding and appreciation
  • Reorganize role and relationship conflicts
  • Actively shape change processes

How do we work?

The outreach family therapy is carried out by a therapeutically qualified team of two carried out by the family in their living environment This approach allows for a realistic and familiar working atmospherein which concrete everyday topics can be directly included.

In addition, conversations can also be held in our Consulting rooms in Kreuzberg or Neukölln take place – depending on your wishes and needs.

In cooperation with the families:

  • We analyze together the previous perspectives and behavior patterns,
  • discover and activate existing strengths and resources,
  • test new ways of thinking and acting in concrete situations,
  • and create space for a sustainable positive change.

Who is family therapy suitable for?

Outreach family therapy is useful for families:

  • with ongoing conflicts between parents and children
  • with communicative misunderstandings or role ambiguities
  • which in transitional or stressful situations (e.g. separation, illness, trauma, school problems)
  • credentials for New impulses for their everyday family life and togetherness
  • at them other educational aids alone are not enough

What does family therapy achieve?

  • Learn More mutual understanding and respect
  • dismantling of Resistance, accusations and blame
  • Development of one new togetherness
  • strengthening the Parenting skills and relationship skills
  • improving the family cohesion

Location and framework of support

  • Outreach: Sessions usually take place in the family’s usual living environment
  • Complementary: Consultations can also be arranged in our Rooms in Kreuzberg or Neukölln be performed
  • Frequency and duration: Depending on needs and in coordination with family and youth welfare office

contact and consulting

Would you like to learn more about our services or inquire about family therapy? We would be happy to advise you personally.

Claudia Cesa
Head of department

Tel .: 0176 11 01 06 15
claudia.cesa@fjh.berlin


Sebastian Schriefel
Head of department

0173 722 98 25
sebastian.schriefel@fjh.berlin

Further HzE offers:

parental assistance / care assistance

Support for children and young people as well as their parents – in everyday life, with school and social challenges or in conflict situations.

Social-educational individual support

Individual support for young people who need intensive support in school, training or everyday life.

Outreach family therapy

In a protected environment, families work through their conflicts, develop new forms of communication and find sustainable solutions for their coexistence.

supervised contact

If contact between parents and children can only take place under certain conditions, we accompany these encounters in a professionally sensitive and child-friendly manner.