Family Conflict
addressing the eggshells in the room and creating space for new interactions
You deserve to have
full relationships
full of care
full of conversation
full of connection
Supporting relationships of 2-5 people navigating chronic conflict and distress, grief, and transition.
These relationships matter to you.
Whether chosen, biological, or adoptive family, the reason you’re here is to attempt to repair or resolve what happened.
Families, friendships, polycules, and couples often come to therapy looking for a place to process or additional support.
You may be navigating grief, financial strain, transitions, life events, differences in values, or the impact of past harm.
No matter what you’re here for, I’m glad you are here.
I love working with relational groups while exploring the systems we each live in. By doing family work together, we are allowing space for new interactions, identities, and norms to form. Systemic family therapy can reshape your relationships to yourself and one another.
I’m not afraid of the conflict that comes with relationships. Safe conflict and disagreements are a part of connection and invite change.
We will use Bowen Family Systems theory to provide you with support, data, and skills as you all navigate relational stress. We will navigate your histories together and explore the possibility of a future where this conflict feels different.
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I am careful in documentation & navigation of the current political climate. I do not use AI for any kind of note-taking or clinical work. I do not document information about disabilities, neurodivergence, gender, sexuality, or specific traumas.
I also do not document a diagnosis unless there is an agreement between us that you’d like me to for insurance superbill purposes. We will decide together what diagnosis fits what is happening for you.
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Yes - I love working with care relationships. Whether these roles are named, unnamed, assigned, or unassigned. Caregivers and Care receivers often experience stress related to disability, neurodivergence, shame, guilt, feeling like a burden, and navigating expectations.
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Yes - I love working with chosen families, siblings, relatives, adult children and significant caregivers (parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents). Families often are navigating emotional stress, conflict around grief, processing past trauma, and making room for new identities.
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I work with partners in romantic relationships who want to explore interdependence (compared to codependence) or want to support each other in caregiving and care-receiving.
*If you are looking for a couples / relationship therapist who can work around inter-neurotype or trauma-focused partners work, please reach out - I have a great referral list!
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We’ll work together to understand it - if that’s your goal. If not, know that it’s okay to not know everything. It’s okay to simply sit with the fact that you are feeling pain, and to notice how it might be getting in the way of you living the life you find meaningful.
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Weekly or twice monthly relational therapy can provide a safe space for reconnecting, reworking, and re-imagining your relationships. In sessions, we will draw from each person’s experiences as a way to understand the relationship dynamics. We will move through your emotional experience and welcome sensations, memories, and thoughts as they come.
Relational stress builds up over time. I work with clients who have experienced years of systemic, institutional, relational, and internalized harm that ends up impacting their bodies and minds. We will work collaboratively while implementing real tangible skills to stop conflict loops from escalating and build in tools for repair.
As we get closer to the relationship you desire, we’ll reconnect with the hobbies and passions you once shared, making conversation and connection easier again. If through our work you find that a change in the relationship is needed, we will set goals for how to navigate this together and make space to process the grief that comes with change.