About
Family therapy, as I practice it, is concerned with the unconscious life of the family system: the unspoken agreements, inherited patterns, and relational structures that organize how members know and misrepresent one another. What presents as conflict between a parent and adolescent or adult child is rarely only what it appears to be; it carries the weight of earlier experience, unresolved loss, and the anxieties that attachment stirs in both directions.
Adolescence and early adulthood are periods in which the terms of belonging are renegotiated. The need for autonomy and the need for connection exist in genuine tension, and earlier ruptures in the parent-child relationship tend to surface with new urgency. The work is not arbitration. It is an attempt to make legible what has been felt but not spoken, and to create the conditions under which the relationship can be known differently.