Because every person matters—and every relationship matters, too.

Whether your family is navigating daily stress or facing deeper ruptures, therapy offers a structured space to pause the patterns and reconnect on purpose.

We work with families of all kinds—parent-child dyads, co-parents, blended households, sibling groups, multigenerational homes, and chosen families—who are ready to grow in connection, responsibility, and love.

Families often seek support for issues like:

• Chronic or explosive conflict
• Avoidance, isolation, or emotional cutoffs
• Parenting struggles or role confusion
• Teen emotional distress or behavior concerns
• Trauma recovery within the family
• Substance use or behavioral addiction recovery
• Reentry after hospitalization or outpatient programs
• Generational stress patterns and legacy burdens
• Communication that never seems to land the way it’s intended

You don’t have to wait for things to get worse. Family therapy is for prevention, healing, and intentionally changing the story.

🧭 Our Approach: Bowen Family Systems Theory

We draw primarily from Bowen Family Systems Theory, which views the family as an emotional unit—interconnected and interdependent. When one person struggles, the ripple touches everyone. So rather than isolating a single “identified patient,” we work to understand the full emotional system.

Bowen theory emphasizes:

• Emotional connection: recognizing how closeness and distance are negotiated
• Differentiation of self: the ability to stay grounded in who you are while remaining lovingly connected to others
• Intergenerational dynamics: understanding how beliefs, reactions, and anxieties are passed down, often without awareness
• Triangles: seeing how third-party dynamics (another person, substance, or problem) are used to manage discomfort in relationships

These insights allow us to step back from blame and into growth.

🌿 Expanding the Window of Tolerance

Much of what feels like “overreaction” in families is actually about anxiety—specifically, our limited ability to tolerate emotional discomfort without flipping into silence, sarcasm, control, or chaos.

One of our key goals in family therapy is to help each member expand their window of tolerance: the emotional range in which you can stay present, reflective, and open—even when things get hard.

When the family learns to hold more emotional heat without burning each other, everything changes.

🧬 Using Genograms to Trace Emotional Patterns

A powerful tool we often use is the genogram—a visual map of your family over three or more generations.

• It’s more than a family tree. A genogram helps uncover:
• Patterns of closeness, distance, and cutoff
• Roles that repeat (e.g., caretaker, rebel, avoider)
• Emotional injuries passed down (often unknowingly)
• Substance use, illness, trauma, or loss themes
• Cultural, spiritual, or identity beliefs that shaped your family’s view of self and others

By looking at where you’ve come from, we begin to understand the “rules” your family may still be living by—and what needs to shift for something new to grow.

🛠 What Family Therapy Looks Like

Sessions are 75 minutes long and may include:

• All available family members together
• Subsets of the family (e.g., just parents, just siblings, or one parent with one child)
• Individual sessions woven in as needed to support the whole system

We’ll set shared goals, create space for each voice, and help each person take ownership of their part—without taking on more than is theirs.

Family therapy isn’t about fixing one person.

It’s about healing the spaces in between—where the hurt happens, but also where hope lives.

Whether your family is feeling fractured or just wants to grow stronger, we’re here to help you reconnect and rise—together.