What is family therapy?
Family therapy works on the relationships between people rather than treating one person as the problem. When a family is struggling, the cause is rarely a single member — it is usually a pattern everyone is caught inside: who speaks and who goes quiet, which subjects are avoidable, how conflict escalates and who ends up carrying it.
A family therapist helps you see that pattern from the outside, then change it together. Sessions may include the whole family, part of it, or individual members, depending on what is most likely to help.
When families come to us
Often it is a specific rupture: a teenager who has stopped talking, a divorce the children are absorbing, a new stepfamily that has not settled, a child whose anxiety or behavior is reorganizing the whole household. Sometimes it is quieter — a family that functions but no longer enjoys each other.
You do not need a crisis to justify coming in, and you do not need everyone on board before you start.
Our approach
Our Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists are trained specifically in family systems: their graduate work centers on how families organize themselves and how those patterns shift. Depending on your family, that may draw on Bowen Family Systems, structural and experiential family work, attachment-based approaches, or play therapy with younger children.
We work with what is actually in the room. Parents are partners in the work rather than an audience for it, and children are never positioned as the patient the rest of the family is bringing in to be fixed.
What to expect
Start with a free 30-minute consultation. Your therapist will ask who is involved, what has changed, and what you want to be different — then suggest who should attend the first sessions. Early appointments map the family's patterns; later ones practice new ways of handling the moments that usually go wrong. Sessions are 53 minutes.
Insurance & access
We accept Select Health, BCBS, DMBA, and EMI Health, and we will help verify your benefits. Available in Orem, Murray, and online across Utah.
Who this helps
- Parents and teens who have stopped being able to talk to each other
- Blended and stepfamilies finding their footing
- Co-parents working together after a separation or divorce
- Families supporting a child through anxiety or low mood
- Families absorbing a loss or a major life change
- Households affected by one member's addiction or betrayal
