Family Therapy Los Angeles Families Turn to for Healing
Family counseling that’s designed to create lasting change and stronger, healthier relationships.
When communication breaks down or challenges feel overwhelming, it can affect the entire family. Through compassionate, personalized family therapy we create a safe, supportive space.
Our approach to family counseling is to ensure each voice is heard and understood. That’s how honest conversation and meaningful progress are made.
Based in Woodland Hills, our team of highly trained therapists serves families across Los Angeles, Encino, Calabasas and beyond with in-person, virtual and phone therapy sessions. We’re here to guide your family toward deeper understanding, stronger relationships and lasting change.
What Exactly is Family Therapy?
Family therapy, or family counseling, treats the entire family unit, not just an individual family member. The reasons for seeking a family therapist are many, including (but not limited to) life transitions, divorce, trauma, behavioral issues and anxiety. Through personalized, evidence-based care, the family can begin to see improved communication, function and stability.
How Family Counseling Creates Real Change at Home
Family counseling isn’t just about solving one problem or focusing on one person. It’s about understanding how each member of the family contributes to the overall dynamic and learning how to work through challenges together.
Our family therapists at Teen Therapy Center don’t “take sides.” Instead, we help translate what’s really going on beneath the surface, so parents and their children can better understand each other’s perspectives and needs.
Structured family therapy involves working through patterns that may be keeping your family stuck, whether that’s repeated conflict, miscommunication or emotional distance. In a supportive setting, we guide families toward more productive conversations and healthier ways of relating to one another.
Families often come to us to:
- Improve communication and understanding
- Rebuild trust
- Set healthy boundaries
- Navigate transitions, including divorce, grief or big changes at home
- Work through trauma
- Create a happier, healthier home life
Our Approach to Family Therapy
Family therapy works best when it’s both supportive and structured. Rather than simply talking through challenges, our therapists actively guide conversations, helping families slow down, communicate more clearly and understand how their interactions shape the overall family dynamic.
Our approach is grounded in evidence-based practices and real-world application. During each session, your therapist works with your family to identify patterns, shift unhelpful dynamics and build more effective ways of relating to and connecting with one another.
Depending on your family’s needs, we may incorporate:
- Structural family therapy to better understand roles, boundaries and interaction patterns
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to address thoughts and behaviors impacting the family system
- Attachment-based approaches to strengthen trust and connection
- Emotional regulation and communication strategies that improve day-to-day interactions
Meet Our Team of Family Therapists
Our team of therapists is here to help. During a free initial phone consultation, we’ll discuss your family’s needs, therapy preferences and scheduling availability. This will allow us to find the Teen Therapy Center therapist who can best support your family dynamic.
Kent Toussaint, LMFT
When you are in therapy with Kent, you can expect to feel safe to honestly acknowledge your feelings and creatively take healthy emotional risks to empower and improve your life more
Hannah Bacos, AMFT
I believe that families are the blueprint for the adults children become, and it is essential for us to work together to support both children and those who care for them more
John Garrison, AMFT
I want to help give kids and teens alike the tools that they can carry with them outside of the therapy office into school, their homes, and the rest of their lives more
Rosie Fiore, AMFT
As a mother of two teen boys, I understand the intense complexities of family life, and I believe in the transformative power of family therapy for us as individuals as well as a family system more
Tiffany Schwanz, AMFT
My path into mental health began after years as a professional ballet. That experience deepened my understanding of emotional expression which shape my systemic, compassionate approach to therapy today more
Helping Teens & Children Be Heard & Understood
“You don’t understand!” “You hate me!” “I hate you!” “Why are you like this?!”
Does that sound familiar? Teens and children have their own – often unproductive – ways of communicating that something bigger is going on.
Other signs can be withdrawal, frustration, rebellion or emotional outbursts.
While all of this can be confusing and overwhelming for parents, Teen Therapy Center can bridge the gap and help translate.
We help uncover what’s underneath those behaviors so parents and their children can understand what’s really going on. At the same time, parents gain invaluable insight into how their child is experiencing the world. This helps create more alignment, less conflict and stronger day-to-day connection across the family.
Through our family therapy practice, teens and children learn hot to better:
- Express thoughts and emotions more clearly
- Feel heard without fear of judgment or punishment
- Improve communication with parents and siblings
- Navigate challenges at school, socially or at home
- Develop healthier ways to cope with stress and big emotions
Support for Parents & Caregivers
Parenting through challenges with a teen or child can feel overwhelming, especially when nothing seems to be working the way it used to. Many parents and caregivers come to us feeling stuck, unsure how to respond or worried they’re making things worse.
Working with a trained therapist gives parents the clarity, tools and support needed to shift the dynamic at home.
Together with our therapists, parents learn how to better:
- Respond to challenges in ways that reduce conflict, not escalate it
- Communicate more effectively with teens and children
- Set clear, consistent expectations and boundaries
- Navigate complex situations like divorce, blended families or trauma
- Support their child’s mental health without feeling overwhelmed
Getting Started With Family Therapy in Los Angeles
When helping families discover family therapy, our goal is to make the process simple, supportive and easy to navigate.
Located in Woodland Hills, Teen Therapy Center works with families across the Los Angeles area, including Encino, Calabasas and Sherman Oaks. We also offer in-person, virtual and phone sessions to accommodate your schedule.
From the first session with your family therapist, we focus on understanding what’s been going on in your family and helping you find a path forward that feels realistic and manageable.
No pressure. Just a conversation to see what’s right for your family.