Is your family caught in repetitive, unhealthy patterns or feeling more distant than you’d like? Whether you are dealing with a current crisis or a long-standing conflict, you are not alone. Family therapy Pasadena provides a safe place to get unstuck.
Family relationships can be rewarding—but also endlessly complex. When one person is hurting, the entire system feels the impact. Our goal is to move away from blame and toward a shared understanding of the roles and reactions that pull everyone into conflict.
Whether we meet at my office in Pasadena, California, or via secure video platform, I look forward to helping your family reconnect.
Reach out at anytime to set up a free 20-minute consult.
Evidence-Based Family Therapy in Pasadena and Virtually
Common Reasons Families Seek Therapy
When family members have grown apart—after conflict, hurt, or years of silence—it can feel overwhelming to know where to start. Family therapy Pasadena offers a structured, supportive space to slowly rebuild contact, make sense of what happened, and explore what reconnection could look like at a pace that feels safe for everyone involved.
Estrangement
Families are often stretched during periods of change—divorce, blending families, new caregiving roles, adolescence, grief, or major health shifts. Family therapy Pasadena offers a place to process what’s shifting, support each person through the adjustment, and strengthen connection as your family finds its footing again.
Life Transitions
Sometimes families feel stuck in the same painful conversations or avoid talking altogether. In therapy, we slow things down and help each person express what’s underneath the surface, building skills for listening, repair, and more honest connection over time.
Communication Breakdowns
If tensions in your household or at family gatherings feel constant, it can be hard to find a way out of reactive patterns. Family therapy creates space to pause and understand the cycle underneath the conflict, so each person’s experience is heard and new ways of relating can begin to take shape.
High Conflict
Frequently Asked Questions about Family Therapy
What is family therapy like?
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We look at the pattern your family is caught in—the roles, the reactions, the moments where everyone gets pulled in. We slow everything down, explore what each person is feeling and needing, and build new ways of relating that create more safety and connection at home.
What kinds of families come to family therapy with you?
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I work with adult families navigating conflict, distance, estrangement, unresolved hurt, major transitions, or the impact of trauma or loss. This includes siblings, parent–adult child relationships, blended families, and multi-generational dynamics.
Do you work with families in crisis or high conflict?
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Yes. Many families come in during moments of high distress. Together, we create enough stability to understand the cycle you’re in and build new ways of communicating and reconnecting.
How do we know if family therapy with you is right for us?
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If there’s tension that keeps resurfacing, conversations that always go sideways, or emotional distance that feels painful, family therapy can help you understand what’s happening and shift the pattern together.
If you want to get a sense of fit, we can start with a free phone call.
What family therapy approach or modality do you use?
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My work is grounded in attachment-based, trauma-informed care with influences from Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), EFT, and systems thinking. We focus on the emotions and needs driving the pattern—not on blame.