When one person hurts, the whole family feels it.
Family therapy helps your family communicate better, resolve conflict, and support each other through difficult times. Whether the issue starts with one family member or affects everyone, working together creates change that sticks.
Available for families of all structures. In-person in CA & TX, or via secure telehealth.
Parents & children
The most common format. Addresses communication, discipline approaches, and family dynamics.
Specific subgroups
Sometimes your therapist works with parent-child pairs, siblings, or other dyads within the family.
Extended family
Grandparents, step-parents, or close family friends may join when their involvement supports treatment goals.
Communication breakdown
Family members talk past each other, avoid hard conversations, or argue without resolution
Parent-child conflict
Power struggles, boundary issues, behavioral challenges, or growing disconnection
Blended family adjustment
Step-family dynamics, loyalty conflicts, new sibling relationships, role confusion
A family member's mental health
When depression, anxiety, addiction, or another condition affects the whole household
Divorce and co-parenting
Helping children adjust, creating healthy co-parenting boundaries, reducing conflict
Trauma or grief
Processing a loss, accident, or traumatic event that affects the family collectively
Initial assessment
Your therapist meets with the family and may speak with members individually to understand each perspective.
Identify patterns
Family conflict usually follows a pattern. Your therapist helps the family see the cycle and each person's role in it.
Build new skills
Learn communication techniques, conflict resolution strategies, and ways to support each other constructively.
Strengthen bonds
As patterns shift, family members reconnect. Therapy helps maintain these changes beyond the session room.
Structural Family Therapy
Examines how family hierarchies, boundaries, and roles contribute to dysfunction. Helps reorganize patterns so the family functions more effectively.
Strategic Family Therapy
Focuses on specific problems and uses targeted interventions to change interaction patterns. Often shorter-term and solution-oriented.
Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy
Applies CBT principles to family interactions. Identifies distorted beliefs family members hold about each other and teaches healthier communication and problem-solving.
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Individual family members can attend free Trauma-Informed Yoga sessions to build self-regulation and manage stress, supporting the work done in family therapy.
Does everyone have to be in the room at the same time?
Not always. Your therapist may work with the full family, specific subgroups, or individuals within the family framework. The structure depends on what your family needs at each stage of treatment.
What if one family member refuses to participate?
Therapy can still be effective with willing participants. Changes in how some family members interact often shift the dynamic for everyone, even those not attending sessions.
At what age can children participate?
Children as young as 4-5 can participate with age-appropriate techniques. Your therapist adapts session format based on the ages of family members involved.
How long does family therapy take?
Most families see progress within 12 to 20 sessions. Situations involving trauma or chronic conflict may benefit from longer-term work. Your therapist discusses a realistic timeline early on.
Can family therapy happen via telehealth?
Yes. Our HIPAA-compliant platform supports family sessions. Members can join from the same location or from separate devices when that better serves the therapeutic goals.
Is family therapy covered by insurance?
Coverage varies by plan and diagnosis. We accept 22+ insurance plans. Call (866) 499-2588 to verify your family's benefits before booking.
What is family therapy?
Family therapy is a form of psychotherapy that treats the family as a unit. A licensed therapist works with family members together (and sometimes individually) to identify patterns that create conflict, address communication breakdowns, and strengthen relationships. The approach is based on the understanding that individual problems exist within a family context, and addressing the system produces more lasting change.
Family therapy and individual care at Savant Care
At Savant Care, family therapists coordinate with individual therapists and psychiatric providers on the same team. If one family member needs individual therapy or medication management alongside family sessions, the transition is seamless. Between appointments, our journal feedback system provides continuous support.
Your family can get through this together.
One session to start. We take it from there.