What is family therapy and who is it for?

Family therapy helps improve communication and resolve conflicts among family members, strengthening relationships as a whole.

When should a family consider therapy?

Families may benefit during major life transitions, ongoing conflict, parenting challenges, or emotional stress within the household.

Can family therapy help with parenting challenges?

Yes, it provides strategies to improve communication, set boundaries, and better understand children’s emotional needs.

Can family therapy help with teenage behavior issues?

Therapy can address behavioral concerns by improving communication and strengthening family dynamics.

What happens during a family therapy session?

Sessions involve guided discussions, problem-solving, and tools to help family members understand and support each other.

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Family Therapy Grounded in Dignity, Care, and Moral Purpose

A narrative-based approach that offers families space to slow down, listen with care, and better understand their relationships within the larger family story.

How Family Therapy Supports Healing and Understanding

Family therapy at SoCal Narrative Therapy attends carefully to how children’s problems are often approached in therapy. Approaches that require parents to produce exhaustive accounts of failure can leave both children and parents feeling diminished and less able to meet difficulties in their lives.

With the support of a therapist, families may find space to:

Recognize children’s and parents’ talents, virtues, and intentions
Step out of blame and problem-saturated stories
Act with greater agency in alignment with what matters most

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Family Therapy Practice

Family therapy at SoCal Narrative Therapy attends to children’s and parents’ talents, virtues, and relational capacities. Children are understood to have a rich store of skills and intentions that can be drawn upon in responding to the challenges of living.

Through family therapy and consultation, families are invited to reflect together on their experiences and ways of relating, with the hope that children and parents leave therapy feeling like agents in their own lives, able to intervene on their own behalf and according to their own moral purposes for living.