Exciting announcement!
Our non-profit, A New Hope Academy, dedicated to supporting mental health professionals,
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Would you like to feel more connected
as a family?
Would you like to have better communication and feel more connected to your family? Maybe your family is dealing with major changes and challenges which are leading to high levels of stress, tension and disconnect. You wish your family life could feel less like a battleground, and you long for a home filled with calm, laughter, and support.
Family therapy brings people together in a safe and supportive atmosphere to facilitate a deeper understanding of each other's needs and improve communication. Our focus is on how to help families move forward, break unhelpful patterns, and discover new ways of being together.
Having this space to share, listen and be heard as a family can have wonderful benefits. Your therapist will guide everyone how to solve conflict together, talk through problems, and increase overall happiness in your family. Families can grow together through major transition points and times of difficulty, heal past hurts and learn to enjoy time spent together.
What can family therapy help with?
Family therapists are able to support families impacted by a range of issues and family stressors, including the below. Our family counselors can help address communication so there is less in-fighting or emotional distance, better listening and understanding within in the family, who are supported in learning to solve problems together.
Blended, step-family and co-parenting issues
Divorce and
Separation
Health & Medical Issues within the Family
Grief and loss
Birth of a baby and expanding family units
Neurodivergence in the family
The impact of discrimination and societal harms
Children leaving or returning home
HARNESSING PLAY AND POPULAR CULTURE IN FAMILY THERAPY
Bringing Families Closer through Playfulness and Cultural Touchstones
When families are under strain, joy and laughter are often the first things to fade—yet they can be the most powerful tools for reconnection.
At New Hope Therapy Center, our family therapists often use games, play techniques, pop culture references, and laughter to help understand your world, heal bonds between family members, improve communication and celebrate family relationships. Our family counselors will help you navigate difficult topics and heal from family pain with care, and in ways that help keep everyone talking and feeling connected.
Whether it's discussing your favourite family movies, sharing stories and music, working in the sand tray, or playing video or role-playing games, our experienced therapists bring creative approaches to engage the whole family and support your family every step of the way on your therapeutic journey.
Holding Space for Families of all Configurations
We define ‘family’ broadly, welcoming any group of people who feel they share a significant relationship with one another, whether or not children are involved. This might include nuclear, extended, blended or step families, sole parents, friendship groups ('chosen family'), and foster and/or adoptive families.
We provide affirmative family therapy for LGBTQI+ families, helping you reach your own unique goals. We are experienced in helping such families navigate points such as raising LGBTQI+ children, coming out, unconscious bias, discrimination, alongside general family dynamics.
We recognize that stress in family life can arise from experiences of marginalization and discrimination based on various aspects of identity, including race, gender, sexuality, migration experiences, and disability. Our goal is to to empower family members in the face of oppression, fostering resilience, togetherness, and healing. We work collaborative to honor coping mechanisms that may have developed over time or passed down generations, and free you up to cultivate new, affirming ways of being as a family to better serve you in the present.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Do all family members have to come to therapy? Family therapy welcomes anyone and everyone who would like to improve the relationships within the family. As your therapist gets to know your family, they will make recommendations to best meet your family’s needs, and at times this might mean meeting with just a few of you at once or individual appointments.
Can family therapy take place online ? Absolutely! We understand that the demands of family life can make it difficult to fit in therapy. We believe therapy should be accessible and convenient, and we are delighted to offer family therapy conveniently from your computer, phone, or tablet. Studies have shown that online therapy is equally effective as face-to-face sessions, and all our therapists are trained in telehealth-specific methods.
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Our Family Therapists
Our team of warm, experienced family therapists is committed to providing personalized, culturally-sensitive counseling. We are proud to include Spanish-English bilingual therapists on our team. We believe therapy should be a space where the languages spoken at home can be used freely and understood so that everyone feels comfortable and included—without anyone having to take on the extra role of translating.
