Transformative Family Therapy

Transform your most important relationships.

Family is where we first learn how to love, how to belong, how to communicate, and how to navigate conflict. It’s also where some of our deepest challenges and emotional wounds begin.

Whether you're parenting a child, co-parenting with someone who thinks differently than you, or healing a rupture with your family of origin, family therapy offers a space for truth-telling, repair, and change.

What Is Transformative Family Therapy?

This is not about assigning blame or figuring out who’s “right.”
It’s about understanding each person’s experience, shifting stuck patterns, and nurturing relationships that feel stronger, safer, and more aligned with your values.

Family therapy isn’t one-size-fits-all. Your family may be nuclear, blended, extended, chosen, queer, polyamorous—or any combination. The common thread is that you’re ready to do the work of showing up for one another in a new way.

Common Reasons People Seek Family Therapy

Parenting Challenges: Learning how to parent in a way that builds connection, cooperation, and a peaceful home—while supporting your child’s emotional development.

Co-Parenting Conflicts: Collaborating with a spouse, ex-partner, or relative in ways that reduce stress and center the child’s well-being.

Family of Origin Repair: Reconnecting after estrangement, or healing from generational trauma, emotional neglect, or old relational wounds.

In-Law Dynamics: Navigating tensions and boundary challenges with extended family members.

Polycule and Chosen Family Resilience: Strengthening the bonds of a kitchen-table polycule or intentional family unit, including navigating shared parenting, emotional labor, and complex dynamics.

What to Expect

Therapy begins with everyone involved.
The first session will include all participating members of your family system.

From there, we’ll meet in various configurations that best serve your goals—sometimes with everyone, sometimes with smaller subgroups, or even individuals. For example:

Parents or co-parents may meet alone to align on structure and communication.
Children or teens may have their own sessions to express what they’re experiencing.
Dyads (like siblings, partners, or metamours) may meet to repair ruptures.
The whole system may come together periodically to reflect and realign

This flexible structure allows each bond to be strengthened in the context where it matters most. When even one part of the system shifts, the entire family dynamic begins to transform.

My Approach: Strengths-Based and Relational

I work from a strengths-based, attachment-informed perspective.

This means I help your family:

Understand how each person’s history and nervous system impacts how they relate

Recognize the cycles that keep you stuck, without pathologizing or blaming
Build on your individual and collective strengths to increase connection, trust, and resilience

Move toward a family culture rooted in respect, interdependence, and emotional safety

We go deep, but we go at a pace that feels safe. We work with compassion, not criticism. This is your family’s story, and you’re in the driver’s seat as we shape the path forward together.

Why do this work?

Healing family relationships is some of the most transformative work we can do.
These are the places where we’ve often been most deeply seen—and most deeply hurt. But they are also places where powerful healing, understanding, and reconnection can happen.

Whether you want to shift long-standing patterns or simply improve the way your family navigates daily life, family therapy can open new possibilities for communication, love, and shared growth.

You don’t have to keep living in survival mode.

Your family can change—and you don’t have to do it alone.

5 Signs Family Therapy Could Help

Family dynamics are complex—and even the most loving families can hit roadblocks that feel hard to move through on their own. Here are some signs that family therapy might be a meaningful next step:

1. Communication Often Leads to Conflict

If even small conversations tend to escalate into arguments, or certain topics feel “off-limits,” therapy can help your family develop new patterns of communication that are respectful, open, and safe.

2. You’re Navigating a Major Life Change

Blended families, divorce, coming out, medical crises, loss, or moves can all shake up family dynamics. Therapy offers a supportive space to adapt, grieve, and grow together during times of transition.

3. There’s Distance, Resentment, or Silence

If someone in the family is pulling away—or if emotional shutdown has become the norm—therapy can help rebuild trust, reestablish connection, and create space for each voice to be heard.

4. Parenting Feels Overwhelming or Divisive

Whether you're co-parenting with a partner, a relative, or an ex, therapy can help align your parenting values and strategies so that your child(ren) feel secure—and the adults feel supported.

5. Old Wounds Keep Resurfacing

Sometimes the past isn’t really in the past. If old family pain, trauma, or estrangements are resurfacing and causing strain, therapy offers a path toward healing, accountability, and repair.

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