Couples and Family Therapy

Couples and family therapy looks at concerns through the lens of relationships rather than individual symptoms alone. Care focuses on communication patterns, recurring conflict cycles, life transitions, and the shared goals that hold relationships together.

• Psychotherapy
• Family Intervention
• Skills Training

What to expect

• Recurring conflict, communication breakdowns, or feeling unheard or distant in a relationship.
• A major life transition such as a new child, a move, retirement, illness, loss, or blended-family adjustment.
• Parenting differences, co-parenting after separation, or shared decision-making about a young person's care.
• A relational pattern that individual therapy alone has not been able to shift.

Approaches we use

• Structured sessions that identify communication patterns and the cycles that maintain conflict.
• Skills work for active listening, repair after rupture, and shared decision-making.
• Approaches that may draw on cognitive, acceptance-based, or systems-informed methods depending on fit.
• Coordination with individual therapy or psychiatric care when one or more family members has separate clinical needs.

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Who this helps

• Couples noticing a drift, recurring fights, or unresolved questions about the relationship.
• Families adjusting to a transition that is straining communication or roles.
• Co-parents working out shared planning after a separation or major change.
• Adult children and parents seeking to repair or rework long-standing patterns.

Frequently asked questions

• How is couples or family therapy different from individual therapy?

  Individual therapy focuses on one person's thoughts, feelings, and goals. Relational therapy includes two or more people and focuses on patterns between them — communication, conflict cycles, and shared decisions.
• Do all family members need to attend every session?

  No. The clinician and the family decide together which combinations of people attend each session. Some sessions may include everyone, others may focus on a subset of the family system.
• What if one partner or family member is reluctant?

  An initial conversation can clarify what the reluctant person hopes to be different and what would make therapy feel useful. Engagement is built over time rather than required up front.