Online Family Therapy for Adult Families Throughout Texas

If family patterns aren't flexible enough, families struggle to adapt to natural changes in the family life cycle. Reactions to normal life transitions and major life events become troubling and disrupt an otherwise loving family. Common concerns I address in family therapy include:

• Creating an adult relationship with your parents
• Adult children leaving home, returning home, or building independent lives
• The death of a loved one and grieving together, or very differently
• Divorce or marriage, including parents who divorce later in life and remarriage
• Sibling conflict that never quite resolved
• Boundaries around time, money, advice, and grandchildren
• Caring for aging parents and sharing that responsibility fairly
• Joining together to heal wounds from past experiences

Many of these overlap with the broader life transitions adults face. In family therapy, we work on them together instead of each person carrying their own version alone.

• Parents and adult children who want a relationship built on mutual respect rather than old hierarchies. I spoke about this with Authority Magazine in 2025, and you can find that conversation in my post Five Tips for a Great Relationship With Your Adult Child.
• Adult siblings working through old rivalries, inheritance questions, or decisions about a parent's care.
• Blended families where stepparents, stepchildren, and new partners are still figuring out how they fit.
• Families with in-law conflict, where a new marriage has shifted loyalties and everyone feels a little left out.
• Families after a loss or divorce, where grief or a split has rearranged everyone's roles and the holidays no longer feel familiar.
• Families facing estrangement who want to explore whether reconnection is possible. I won't force reconciliation. Sometimes the work is repair, and sometimes it's finding a healthier distance.

Some of the hardest family conflicts aren't about who's right. They're about two generations raised in different worlds trying to love each other across the gap.

I understand South Asian family and community dynamics, and I work with many South Asian and Muslim families (Ismaili, Sunni, and Shia). Parents who sacrificed everything to build a life here may expect closeness, involvement, and deference. Their adult children may want those things too, alongside more independence in decisions about careers, partners, and how to practice their faith. Both sides often feel unseen.

Common flashpoints include marriage choices, career paths, where adult children live, how grandchildren are raised, and who takes in an aging parent. These questions carry generations of meaning, and they rarely resolve in a single conversation.

In therapy, we slow down long enough for each person to explain what something means to them, not just what they want. That's often where empathy starts. Sessions are in English, which is worth knowing if a family member is more comfortable in another language. You can read more on my multicultural issues page.

In family therapy, I become an advocate for your entire family by promoting reconnection and facilitating communication. I can't guarantee that sessions will always be comfortable, but I will do everything I can to help each of you listen and be heard in a new way.

We'll work to find common ground on a variety of issues, including boundaries, expectations, and appropriate ways to disagree. I believe each family member shares responsibility for improvement. So I will challenge and support each of you to develop new perspectives and find empathy for one another. Each of you has strengths, and together you have more to work with than it may feel like right now.

A typical session might start with each person sharing what's been on their mind since we last met. Then we'll slow down a specific moment, like a holiday that went sideways or a text that landed badly, and look at what each person was feeling and needing. Often the same event has three or four completely different stories attached to it. I'm not there to decide which story is true. I'm there to help each of you understand the others.

Sessions are online, so family members can join from different homes or cities, each on their own device. Everyone needs to be physically located in Texas during the session, since I'm licensed in Texas. Sometimes I'll meet with smaller groups or individuals within the family if it helps the overall work. If one person would benefit from their own support alongside family sessions, individual therapy can be a good complement.

Family sessions for three or more people are $245 for 45 to 55 minutes. If your family configuration is different, please ask me and we'll figure out what makes sense. Family work benefits from consistency, so I recommend weekly sessions at first when schedules allow. I'm out of network for all insurance and can provide receipts for out-of-network reimbursement.

Start with a free phone consultation. We'll talk about who's involved, what's been happening, and what you're hoping for. It's okay if not everyone is on board yet. Often one person reaches out first, and we can think together about how to invite the others. If the main relationship you want to work on is with a partner, take a look at couples and marriage therapy.