Whole family
Everyone in the room together. Useful for naming the system and surfacing the patterns each member contributes to. Usually 75 to 90 minutes.
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When the anger lives in the household, the household is part of the work. Family sessions for adult families — parents and adult children, sibling systems, blended families — that are caught in patterns nobody chose but everyone keeps reinforcing.
Adult families, 21+
75–90 min sessions
Whole household or sub-group
Anger in a family
Rarely lives in just one person.
By the time someone reaches out, there’s usually a system of triggers and reactions everyone has learned and nobody is happy with.
Adult-family work
Is what we do here.
Adult children with aging parents. Siblings re-finding each other. Blended families navigating shared history.
Not always the whole family
Sometimes a sub-group.
Sometimes one or two members at a time. The shape of the work depends on the shape of the family.
We don’t take sides
We change the system.
The work is to make the system itself capable of holding more difficulty without breaking.
Anger in a family rarely lives in just one person. By the time someone reaches out, there's usually a system of triggers and reactions — who escalates, who placates, who leaves the room, who picks up the pieces — that everyone has learned, and that nobody is happy with.
Family therapy at PCG is for adult-family work. Adult children and aging parents working out long-running patterns. Siblings trying to figure out how to be in the same room again. Blended families navigating a shared history that wasn't shared the same way.
Anger in a family rarely lives in just one person. On family work
Common reasons families come in
The patterns we see most often.
Anger in a family rarely lives in one person. By the time someone reaches out, there’s usually a system everyone has learned and nobody is happy with.
One family member is doing anger management individually and the family wants to be part of the change.
Generational patterns — the way anger was handled in the previous generation is still echoing in this one.
Adult children dealing with an aging parent whose patience has gotten shorter and tolerance has gotten thinner.
Parents and adult children whose relationship has gotten frosty, and neither party knows how to thaw it without losing face.
Sibling conflict that’s gotten in the way of caregiving, inheritance, or being able to share a holiday.
Blended families where the unspoken alliances and resentments have become loud.
How sessions actually work
Three shapes the work takes.
Not everyone has to attend every session. The shape depends on the shape of the family.
Sub-group
Two or three members at a time — siblings, a parent and an adult child, two halves of a blended family. Often where the most direct work happens.
Individual within the system
One family member doing private work in parallel with the family sessions, when the work needs that kind of room.
The framework
Family systems + IFS.
We draw on family systems therapy (looking at the relational system rather than blaming individuals) and where appropriate, internal family systems (looking at the parts of each person that get activated within family dynamics).
What we don’t do
We don’t take sides.
We don’t issue verdicts about who’s right. The work is to make the system itself capable of holding more difficulty without breaking — and that requires every family member to contribute differently.
We also don’t do parent-young-child therapy here. PCG is adult-focused. For minor children, we refer to specialized child practices.
75–90 minPer session
Adult-focusedAges 21+
SystemicWhole-family lens
Most insuranceAccepted
One person can start the call.
You don’t need everyone on board to schedule a first session. Often the work begins with one family member taking a chance.
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