Who family therapy fits
- Families with an LGBTQ+ teen who has come out, is in the middle of coming out, or is working out what comes next
- Families dealing with the aftermath of a coming-out conversation that didn't go well
- Adult children working with parents on long-standing patterns — sometimes around identity, sometimes around everything else
- Parents who have been pulled away from their child and want to find a way back without making it worse
- Blended families navigating new identities and old loyalties
How we work
Sessions are 60–75 minutes, usually with a configurable mix of attendees — sometimes the whole family, sometimes a parent dyad, sometimes parent-and-child. We meet with each subset as the work calls for it. We use family systems approaches, attachment-based work, and the concrete communication structures of methods like Gottman and EFT.
How confidentiality works with teens
Under California Family Code §6924, minors aged 12 and over can consent to outpatient mental health treatment under certain conditions. We hold strong confidentiality with your teen — meaning the content of their individual sessions stays between them and their clinician — while keeping you informed about safety and the things you genuinely need to know to support them. We talk through this framework with you and your teen on the first call. If your teen is also in individual therapy here, the family work and the individual work are kept appropriately separate.
For parents specifically
You are not failing as a parent for needing help with this. The willingness to come in is the parenting. We do parent-only consultation for parents whose teens or young adults aren't ready to be in the room. We don't tell you what to do; we help you figure out what kind of parent you want to be in this moment, which is more useful than a script.
You don't have to figure this out alone
If this sounds like the kind of work you'd want to do, reach out — we'll start with a no-pressure first session.