Family Therapy in Santa Clara,CA
I work with families navigating conflict, communication breakdowns, and major transitions. Whether it's tension between parents and teens, sibling conflict, blended family challenges, or multigenerational patterns that keep showing up, family therapy helps everyone understand their role in the system and find new ways to relate.
How We Work Together
In our first few sessions, we'll identify the patterns causing friction. Who shuts down, who escalates, where the alliances form, and what each person actually needs. We'll build a plan that addresses the family system, not just individual behavior.
Throughout our work, I help families communicate more effectively, set boundaries that work, and repair relationships that feel strained or broken. If something isn't working in therapy, we adjust. The goal is a family dynamic where everyone feels heard and the home feels less like a battleground.
What I Help Families With
Parent-teen conflict and communication breakdowns
Sibling rivalry and conflict
Blended family adjustment and step-parenting challenges
Divorce and co-parenting
Behavioral issues and acting out
Mental health challenges affecting the family (anxiety, depression, ADHD)
Cultural and generational differences
Major life transitions (relocation, job loss, illness)
Grief and loss
Parenting stress and family roles
Rebuilding trust after conflict or betrayal
Treatment Approach
I use Family Systems Therapy, Structural Family Therapy, and attachment-based approaches to help families break out of stuck patterns and build healthier ways of connecting. Treatment is tailored to your family's structure, culture, and what's actually happening at home.
You'll learn to recognize the cycles that escalate conflict, communicate without blame, and create a family environment where difficult conversations can happen without everyone shutting down or exploding. This isn't about family meetings or behavior charts. It's about changing the underlying dynamics so your family functions better as a whole.