Family & Couples Therapy
Family Therapy
What Does Family Therapy Look Like?
My experience in family therapy is primarily in working with loved ones with family members struggling from addiction and/or significant mental illness. This can be parents but also siblings, partners, and adult children.
I have found that my general clinical foundation of a blended ACT and Structural Family Systems approach (Learn more about that here) gives individuals the space to process the changed dynamics within their family as a result of their loved ones’ struggles along with concrete tools to both cope and communicate more effectively.
This type of family therapy might look different than what might come to mind when you imagine “family therapy.” Family therapy with me will include either one or more family members effected by another member’s behaviors, but will not consistently include the struggling individual. This model shifts the focus from the chaos of addiction and puts it squarely where it belongs, on you. So much of life is sucked up into the tornado of our loved one’s addiction that we get lost in the storm too. Family therapy will help you find yourself again, reconnect in your relationships, restructure your boundaries, and move from a problem-lens to a success-lens.
We may infrequently involve your loved one in the process but this would be after a period of establishing safety in our relationship and regular practice of healthy communication and self-regulation skills. It would include a clear and purposeful agenda and goals for all involved so that it can be productive and not just contribute to dysfunction.
Addiction and significant mental illness do not just impact the individual, but the entire system they live within. The most directly impacted part of this system is their immediate family members.
When our family member struggles with addiction, we cease being Mom, Dad, child, or sibling and often find ourselves in roles that we didn’t ask to be in. Sometimes we find ourselves in the role of therapists, sober coaches, interventionists, career counselors, sober house managers, medication managers, and crisis counselors. Either way, we are miles away from the actual role we play in our loved ones’ life.
Family therapy aims to help you find your way back to the role you should be in and places firm and respectful boundaries in the areas that resulted in these role shifts in the first place.
What’s Next?
15-20min Consult
This helps you to get a feel for me as a therapist, give me a little more information about what you’re looking for in Family Therapy, and answer any questions you might have.
Free
Collective Intake
The collective intake will involve all family members who plan to attend regular family therapy sessions. It is spent discussing past and present issues within the family and treatment goals.
$420- 120mins
Individual Intakes
I will meet with each family member individually to give them more time to discuss their personal concerns and goals. This can help each family member feel more able to speak freely about their concerns without censoring themselves.
$375- 60mins
Continued Sessions
We will determine together what frequency and cadence feels right to help you meet your goals. I will provide my recommendation based on our intakes and we will schedule on-going meetings.
$350- 60mins | $375- 75mins
Clinical Consultation
Clinical consultation will be helpful in the event that you are working with other providers like a coach or therapist, whose insights and collaboration might benefit our work together.
$220 per 30mins
Coaching
Coaching is offered between scheduled sessions on an as-needed basis to help reinforce and support the changes you’re making.
$220 per 30mins
Trauma-Informed Couples Therapy
Life moves extremely fast. Between navigating careers, family, children, a social life, and more it can feel like we can never get our heads above water. Often times, our relationship with our partner(s) are the ones that suffer the most and can be put on the back burner.
If you find yourself fighting, living in tension and uncertainty, or feeling like roommates instead of partners then couples therapy might be right for you.
When communication falls apart, when life responsibilities get in the way, when intimacy goes stale, and when you want to find your way back to one another, its important to invest the time in plotting the road map back.
What Does Trauma-Informed Couples Therapy Look Like?
Couples therapy with me focuses on helping partners understand their internal experience and learn how to communicate it to their partner(s). I will help you understand the emotional bonds that shape how partners relate to one another—especially under stress. Most conflict isn’t really about communication skills or specific disagreements; it’s about moments when connection feels threatened and partners don’t know how to reach for each other safely. In those moments, couples often get pulled into predictable cycles of pursuit, withdrawal, blame, or shutdown that leave both people feeling unseen or alone.
In trauma-informed couples therapy, therapy moves at a pace that prioritizes emotional and physiological safety. I help couples recognize how trauma influences their attachment patterns and moment-to-moment reactions, while carefully supporting access to underlying emotions without overwhelming either partner. The work focuses on creating new experiences of safety and responsiveness between partners, allowing them to gradually replace survival-based patterns with more secure ways of reaching for and responding to one another. Over time, couples learn not just how to reduce conflict, but how to build a relationship that feels stable, connected, and resilient in the face of stress.
My practice is open to relationships of all types. This includes polyamorous relationships, Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM), queer relationships, heterosexual relationships, monogamous relationships, & partners who are considering a shift in their relational composition.
What’s Next?
15-20min Consult
This helps you to get a feel for me as a therapist, give me a little more information about what you’re looking for in Couples Therapy, and answer any questions you might have.
Free
Collective Intake
The collective intake will involve all members of the relationship who plan to attend regular couples therapy sessions. It is spent discussing past and present issues within the relationship and treatment goals.
$420- 120mins
Individual Intakes
I will meet with each member of the couple individually to give them more time to discuss their personal concerns and goals. This can help each partner feel more able to speak freely about their concerns without censoring themselves.
$375- 60mins
Clinical Consultation
Clinical consultation will be helpful in the event that you are working with other providers like a coach or therapist, whose insights and collaboration might benefit our work together.
$220 per 30mins
Continued Sessions
We will determine together what frequency and cadence feels right to help you meet your goals. I will provide my recommendation based on our intakes and we will schedule on-going meetings.
$350- 60mins | $375- 75mins