Family Therapy
A place to understand the patterns within your family — and create more room for connection, understanding, and trust.
Families can become caught in patterns where everyone feels misunderstood. The same conversations repeat, emotions escalate, people withdraw, and even when everyone wants things to be different, it can be difficult to know how to change what is happening.
Family therapy gives us a place to slow things down and become curious about the family as a whole. Rather than looking for one person to blame or fix, we'll pay attention to what each person is experiencing, how you affect one another, and what is happening between you.
A brief introduction to how I approach family therapy and the patterns that develop within families.
What Our Work Might Look Like
We'll begin with what is happening in your family right now. That might include conflict, communication difficulties, changing family roles, strained parent-child relationships, major life transitions, or simply a growing sense of distance from one another.
Our work will focus on understanding the patterns that have developed within the family and what each person brings to them. We'll create space for people to hear one another differently, express what has been difficult to say, and begin responding with greater awareness rather than simply repeating familiar reactions.
The goal isn't to create a family without differences or conflict. It's to help you understand one another more clearly and create healthier ways of navigating those differences together.
Beginning Couples Therapy
Sessions last 55 minutes.
Our first session gives us an opportunity to begin understanding your family together. I'll want to hear from each of you about what has been happening, what has been difficult, and what you hope might be different.
We don't need to decide immediately who is responsible for the problem. In fact, we'll be much more interested in understanding the patterns that have developed between you and how each person experiences them.
How often should we meet?
I generally recommend beginning with weekly sessions so we have enough continuity to understand what is happening and begin working with it. As our work progresses, we'll decide together whether meeting less frequently makes sense.