What is Counselling?

Counselling is a safe and confidential space where a person can talk about their thoughts, feelings, and concerns with a trained professional.  It helps a person explore challenges, gain clarity, and develop coping strategies to improve wellbeing.

What is Family Therapy?

At Vita House, we recognise that families play a vital role in our emotional health and well-being. Strong, supportive relationships within families provide a foundation for resilience, belonging, and healthy development. However, families can also experience challenges that place strain on these relationships. Life transitions, communication difficulties, conflict, separation, loss, mental health concerns, or the impact of trauma can affect every member of the family.

Our Family Therapy service provides a safe, welcoming, and confidential space where families can come together to explore these challenges with the support of a qualified therapist. Family therapy is based on the understanding that when one person is struggling, the whole family can be affected. By working together, families can develop greater understanding, improve communication, strengthen relationships, and find new ways of supporting one another.

At Vita House, we place a strong emphasis on nurturing healthy family relationships, recognising that children thrive when they grow up in safe, supportive, and caring environments. Family therapy is not about placing blame or identifying one person as the problem. Instead, it focuses on the strengths within each family and helps members work collaboratively towards positive and lasting change.

Family therapy can support families experiencing:

• Communication difficulties and ongoing conflict
• Parenting challenges
• Separation, divorce, and blended family transitions
• Anxiety, depression, or other mental health concerns affecting a family member
• Bereavement and loss
• Behavioural or emotional difficulties in children and young people
• Significant life changes or family stress

Our therapists work alongside families with compassion, respect, and sensitivity, creating an environment where every family member feels heard and valued. Together, we help families build stronger connections, develop healthier ways of communicating, and create positive change that benefits both children and adults.

At Vita House, we believe that investing in family relationships is an investment in the well-being of future generations. By strengthening families today, we help create healthier, more resilient communities for tomorrow.

We offer up to 16 therapy sessions based on a persons presenting need.  Extension to therapy is possible and will be agreed upon, if required and in a persons best interest.