Family Therapy

Every family has a story. Let's understand yours.

Family therapy starts with a simple premise: the person who's struggling is rarely the only one carrying something. When the whole family comes together, a fuller picture emerges.

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A family, man, woman, son and young daughter

1 in 3

families discover a deeper issue once they're in the room

70%

of individual mental health issues have roots in family dynamics

2x

children are twice as likely to improve when the whole family gets treatment

85%

of families report improved relationships when completing therapy

The whole family. The whole picture.

Every family develops its own hidden blueprint. Unspoken rules shape who speaks and who stays quiet. Roles are often assigned long before anyone agrees to them. One person may carry the weight of the whole household without knowing it. Another might learn early on that the only safe place is the door.

Family therapy works inside this architecture. Rather than asking what's wrong with any one person, it looks at how the family has organized itself around pain, history, and the needs each member brings. When those patterns become visible, something shifts. The family can finally see itself clearly, and see potential for change.

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A child struggling can be a family sign.

Family issues often start with a child. Withdrawn, or explosive, or suddenly struggling at school. A teenager who has stopped talking. A younger sibling whose behavior can't be explained. Parents arrive hoping to understand what's happened to their son or daughter.

But family therapy sees this differently. The child is expressing something the family system can't yet name. The work isn't to fix the child, it's to understand what they're responding to within the family. That's why therapy doesn't pull the child aside, it brings the whole family into the room.

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Families at every stage, in every form.

At Humantold, we work with a wide range of families at many different points in their story. And all are welcome here.

Blended and Expanding Families

New structures, new loyalties, new roles, and the work of building belonging where the blueprint has not been written yet.

Families Navigating Loss or Change

Grief, illness, separation, relocation. The moments that ask a family to reorganize faster than any one person can manage alone.

Immigrant and Multicultural Families

The complexity of straddling two worlds, two languages, two sets of expectations, and the inheritance that travels with families across borders.

Families Simply Ready to Know Themselves Better

Not every family arrives in pain. Some arrive with curiosity. Both are welcome. Both are enough.

Families with Young Children

Behavioral concerns, transitions, and the challenge of parenting in a city that does not slow down for anyone.

Families with Teenagers

Withdrawal, conflict, identity, and the particular loneliness of adolescence inside a family that cares but cannot always reach.

How the work actually unfolds

Working in the Room

Family therapy is live. Seeing the family's interactions in the room, a therapist can respond in real time. A boundary is named, a hierarchy is restored, a child's role is eased back to its proper style. The session itself becomes the work.

Mapping the Family

Tracing the family's emotional landscape, the therapist looks to uncover who holds what role, where the alliances are, where the distance lives, and what patterns have been traveling across generations.

Building New Ways Forward

Families leave with more than insight. They leave with new communication skills, clearer boundaries, and a better sense of who's responsible for what. The goal isn't a different family. It's one that feels more fully itself.

Expanding Care

Family therapy often bridges to other work. A parent does their own therapy, a couple works on their relationship, a teen explores their own space. These aren't separate paths. They're different rooms in the same house.

Find a family therapist to start your journey

Licensed Master Social Worker

Adrienne Gorman

(She/Her)

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Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Alexandra Kadish

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LMHC-D, Clinical Supervisor

Amna Adamjee

(She/Her)

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LMHC-D, Clinical Supervisor, Office Manager-BK

Benjamin Young

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LMHC-D, Clinical Supervisor

Briony Pittaway

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