Who this is for
Parents and teens caught in an escalating pattern.
Adult children and aging parents navigating a change in roles or care.
Blended families and co-parents working out how to function as a household.
Families adjusting to a diagnosis, a move, a loss, or another shared change nobody chose.
What we work on
How it works
Sessions run 50–80 minutes, weekly or biweekly. Who attends varies by week — sometimes the whole household, sometimes a subset — based on what's most useful for that session.
Approaches we use here
Structural and strategic family therapy
Changing how a family is organized — boundaries, hierarchies, alliances — rather than treating one member as the problem.
Bowen family systems
Looking at multigenerational patterns and how they're still operating in the present household.
Attachment-based family therapy
Repairing the parent–child bond as the mechanism of change, particularly with a withdrawn or depressed adolescent.
What makes this different
The whole household doesn't need to agree that there's a problem for family therapy to help. It often starts with whoever is willing to come, and grows from there.
FAQ
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