A space to explore connection, communication, and family relationships
Families experience change, stress, loss, and difficult seasons together, and sometimes the relationships within a family need support too.
Family counselling offers a space to explore communication, conflict, changing roles, relationship strain, and the ways that significant life or health experiences can affect the family as a whole.
Support for the relationships that shape family life.
Family therapy provides a collaborative space to better understand the patterns, experiences, and relationships shaping life within your family.
Together, we may explore communication difficulties, recurring conflict, changing roles, difficult transitions, grief and loss, parent-child relationships, blended-family dynamics, or the impact of illness and other significant life experiences.
Why work with Erica?
Erica brings warmth, curiosity, and a whole-person perspective to family therapy, with an understanding that every person in the room may experience the same family differently.
As a mom to two teenage boys, Erica brings a personal appreciation for the joys, complexities, and ever-changing nature of family life.
Her approach is collaborative, attachment-informed, and trauma-aware, with attention to the patterns, relationships, life experiences, and emotions that can shape how families communicate and respond to one another.
With a background spanning counselling psychology, healthcare, and mind-body approaches, Erica works to create space for different perspectives without reducing the family story to who is right or wrong.
The goal isn’t to choose sides. It’s to better understand what’s happening between you.
Care shaped around your family's needs
Space for different perspectives
Collaborative, non-judgmental approach
Secure virtual sessions
Attention to family patterns and relationships
Clear therapeutic boundaries
Respectful, thoughtfully paced conversations
A space for family members to listen, connect, feel heard, and be supported.
Family therapy is collaborative and shaped around the relationships, concerns, and goals bringing your family to counselling.
Sessions can create space to slow down familiar patterns, hear different perspectives, explore what may be happening beneath conflict or disconnection, and better understand how each person’s experiences may be affecting the family as a whole.
The people participating in sessions may vary depending on the nature of the therapeutic work and what has been agreed upon at the outset.
Simple, transparent pricing
Family Therapy
50 min · 80 min
$230 · $305
- Sliding-fee scale and low-cost counselling options available.
How It Works
A brief conversation to ask questions, share a little about what is bringing your family to counselling, and explore whether working together may be an appropriate fit.
2. Begin by understanding your family
Early sessions focus on understanding the relationships, experiences, concerns, and perspectives bringing your family to therapy and what you hope to explore together.
3. Continue collaboratively
Sessions evolve around your family’s needs and therapeutic goals, with room to explore patterns, communication, relationships, and the experiences affecting your family.
Family Therapy FAQs
Does everyone in the family need to attend every session?
Not necessarily. Who participates may vary depending on the nature and goals of the family therapy and what has been agreed upon as part of the therapeutic process.
Erica will discuss the structure of sessions with your family at the outset so that everyone understands who is participating, why, and how confidentiality will be approached.
How much does family therapy cost?
Is this confidential?
Can Erica provide individual therapy to someone in our family as well?
The type of therapeutic relationship is established at the outset. When Erica is working with a family, she maintains her role as the family therapist rather than also becoming the individual therapist for one family member.
Similarly, when Erica has an established individual therapeutic relationship with someone, she does not also become the therapist for that client’s family.
When separate individual support would be helpful, Erica can provide resources or referrals to help family members connect with another therapist so that therapeutic roles and confidentiality remain clear.
How does confidentiality work in family therapy?
Confidentiality is an important part of family therapy. Because more than one person may be participating in the therapeutic relationship, privacy and confidentiality can work differently than they do in individual counselling.
Before therapy begins, Erica will explain how confidentiality will be approached, its legal and ethical limits, and expectations around information shared within and outside of sessions so that everyone understands the process before participating.
What if one family member doesn't want to participate?
It isn’t unusual for family members to have different feelings about counselling. Rather than forcing participation, the first step may be to explore who is willing to take part, what the family hopes to address, and whether family therapy is an appropriate option for the circumstances.
A complimentary consultation can be a good place to discuss your situation and consider what type of support may make the most sense.
Trauma-Informed and Culturally Responsive Care
Our approach is grounded in trauma-informed, culturally responsive care, offering a welcoming space where you can feel respected, supported, and valued for who you are.
Families don't have to have everything figured out before coming to therapy.
Have questions about whether family counselling may be appropriate for your situation?