Frequently Asked Questions about Family Counseling

  • Westlake Family Counseling offers a variety of trauma-informed, relational therapy treatment options, including Internal Family Systems, Emotional Attachment Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and other professionally recognized systems-based approaches, as well as creative therapy options such as sand tray therapy, art therapy, and elements of play therapy.

    Weekly or bi-weekly 90-minute sessions are available to help families navigate their challenges and their desires to reconnect. Sessions can be held virtually, but in-person therapy is recommended for the best chance at achieving meaningful connection.

  • The process begins with scheduling your free 15 minute consultation. During this introductory virtual meeting, you and your therapist will discuss your personal therapy needs, including scheduling and budget considerations. You will be free to take all the time you need to think things over and schedule your first session, should you decide to move forward.

    For more information on scheduling family counseling services, contact us to book a free consultation.

  • The therapy provided at Westlake Family Counseling begins with the compassionate understanding that humans naturally feel a need to attach, bond, love and feel secure in their relationships, but sometimes there can be a struggle for each family member’s needs to be met. Feelings of frustration or even anger can arise through protective attempts to meet or safeguard emotional needs, or there may be instances of trauma, disruption, or disharmony within the family unit.

    Through the process of inward-focused family therapy, Westlake Family Counseling works to help families understand all the parts of their family system, and all the inner parts of each family member, to bring about a deeper understanding of the forces that shape them. This allows families to undertake the necessary and important steps that will lead to a new path of healing and growth.

    Westlake Family Counseling takes great care in ensuring knowledgeable and culturally competent support for special populations, including LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and differently-abled communities, with therapy services available in ASL for those who are Deaf or hard of hearing.

  • Westlake Family Counseling offers a sliding scale in lieu of insurance, with the goal of promoting therapy access for all.