Family therapy brings home healing and balance
By helping you optimize interactions and improve relationships, our family therapists can help your family regain balance, flexibility, and harmony. It's valuable for addressing any issues that affect the whole family, such as:
- Parental conflict, separation, or divorce
- Frequent arguments or domestic violence
- Adjusting to a new family member in the home
- Losing a family member
- Major life changes like relocation or natural disasters
- Children or teens suffering from mental health problems
- Severe emotional or behavioral problems
Our experienced therapy team understands the complex patterns that play out within a family system. We offer practical advice on what you can do to help yourselves and your kids succeed and be happy. We help you learn more helpful styles of communication, fostering openness & collaboration. You can also learn to set healthy boundaries, enjoy mutual respect, and overcome family traumas. Online family counseling sessions are also available for busy families or those coping with regular travel.
Start healing now:
- Request a free phone or email consultation (click here)
- Schedule an in-depth therapy evaluation to understand what's needed
- Meet with your therapist weekly to work on skills, growth, & healing
Experienced family therapists who help families heal
Loren McKnight
Associate Marriage &
Family Therapist
Highly experienced with teens, young adults, and family conflict.
Zoë Peterson
Associate Marriage &
Family Therapist
Helps young people find their authentic voice, and heal from discouragement and difficulty.
Harper Tassie
Associate Marriage &
Family Therapist
Specializes in healing from narcissistic abuse and toxic family patterns, and finding your authentic self.
Nick Kosht
Associate Clinical &
Social Worker
Helps people break free from religious trauma, anxiety cycles, and relationship patterns that aren't working.
Stephanie Clark
Associate Professional
Clinical Counselor
Helps young people and couples dig deeper than surface symptoms to create lasting change.
Tanya Montgomery
Licensed Marriage &
Family Therapist
Skilled in working with complex trauma, severe & chronic mental illness, autism, and ADHD.
Rachel Barraza
Licensed Clinical
Social Worker
Experienced with DBT and attachment-based approaches to trauma and addiction.
Oscar Sermeno
Associate Professional
Clinical Counselor
Helps people learn to value themselves & their experiences.
Kira Xiong
Licensed Professional
Clinical Counselor
Experienced with trauma, disabilities, chronic pain, domestic violence, and relationship problems.
Elyssa Krmpotich
Associate Professional
Clinical Counselor
Focuses on psychodynamic approaches for deep healing.
Hailey Hause
Licensed Marriage &
Family Therapist
Focused on healing trauma and social anxiety, and facilitating personal growth.
Dr. Nicolette Zangari
Supervising Psychologist
Expert in military and sexual trauma, psychosis, and supporting folks along the spectrum of gender and sexuality.
Dr. David Godot
Supervising Psychologist
Focuses on helping families manage the effects of trauma and mental illness.
How does family therapy work?
Family therapy is typically structured into weekly 50- or 90-minute sessions.
Your therapist will work to identify the problems affecting the family and any patterns of communication that might be working against you. These could include power struggles, conflicting beliefs, or stress caused by external circumstances.
Next, you'll get to work on developing practical communication skills, resolving conflicts, negotiating better boundaries, and supporting one another more fully.
How long does family therapy usually take?
As with individual therapy, the duration of family therapy can vary significantly based on the nature and severity of the problems being addressed.
Family therapy focused on coping with loss or change may take as few as 6 to 8 sessions. Research has found that family therapy aimed at working with severe emotional or behavioral issues shows its greatest effects after at least 20 sessions.
When to choose family therapy vs. individual therapy?
Family therapy offers a major benefit for serious or complex problems — especially where the disordered individual is not willing or able to fully engage in therapy on their own. Examples include:
- Behavioral problems in children & adolescents
- Eating disorders, especially in children
- Domestic violence
- Addictions
- Psychosomatic disorders
- Narcissistic or antisocial personality
- Problems adapting to developmental disorders (like ADHD or autism spectrum)
- Serious mental illness such as bipolar, schizophrenia, psychosis, severe depression, or agoraphobia
Is family therapy covered by insurance?
Insurance may cover family therapy if it is focused on treating a family member's diagnosed mental health condition.
For example, family therapy can be an important part of the treatment for a teenager's anxiety or oppositional defiance, a mother's postpartum depression, or a father's bipolar disorder. If one or more members of your family are suffering any kind of emotional disturbance, we'll provide the documentation you need to file an insurance claim.
Psych Lab is a private clinic providing out-of-network service. We do not bill insurance directly, and collect payment directly from patients at the time of service.