Family Therapy

Lean in together,
family forward

A cozy living room with patterned and solid-colored armchairs, a mustard-colored sofa, a wooden coffee table, and side tables with plants, a clock, and a tissue box. There are three large windows with bamboo blinds, and a floor lamp next to the sofa. Art paintings hang on the cream-colored walls.

Family grief therapy provides in-person, compassionate, focused time for you and your family to reorient and reconnect after a life-altering loss. At Voyager Counseling, Olga Montgomery, LCSW offers evidenced, expert family therapy which helps families of all sizes navigate the acute stressors of loss, identify and communicate grief pain and relational needs of family members of all ages, and build the whole-home action and communication skills to help your family to grieve well and make courageous, intentional, love-forward choices each day of this mortal, imperfect, human life, together.

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When grief breaks us open, we can get lost as individuals and as a family.

What was expected, the rhythm of the day, feels chaotic and dysregulated. Even when physically together, individuals can feel alone in a grieving family system that needs clarity, stability, and support. Family therapy can support your family to find words for your core values and lean into what’s unbreakable at your core. Each family member, of all age and ability, can contribute to naming what hurts in the broken places, spotting the light glimmering through the cracks, and building something that matters from the pieces, together.

A young woman and an elderly man sit across from each other in a cozy room, engaging in a conversation. The woman is sitting on a brown sofa, wearing a floral robe, and smiling. The man is sitting on a blue patterned armchair, wearing a light-colored top. A side table between them holds a vase filled with colorful flowers, a stack of books, a small clock, and a lamp. The room has a warm, inviting atmosphere.

Through family therapy, which is often intentionally more topic-specific and shorter in duration than individual therapy, you and your family (adults and children) will explore how your shared history and personal experiences are shaping your family’s current struggles while grieving, identify shared family values and cultivating the habits and skills in your home to mutually connect and support in and through grief pain.

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A simple path to compassionate care

How to Access Family Therapy

Step One: Request an Introductory Call

Click here to schedule a free, no-pressure 20-minute introductory call. You will share a little about your loss and what you are looking for in family therapy, ask any questions on your mind, and see if family therapy at Voyager Counseling is the right fit for you.

Step Two: Set Up Your First Session

If family therapy is a good match for your needs, we’ll work with you to schedule your first session at a time that fits your life. Individual therapy for women and couples grief therapy is also available if family therapy is not the right fit.

Step Three: Begin Therapy

In each session, you and your family members join in-person. You’ll have the space and support to explore your grief in a process-based, radically compassionate way that balances heartfelt connection with purposeful, actionable skills building. You will be supported to identify and build the strategies and tools that you need to move towards your shared values as a couple navigating life-altering loss. You will receive information about grief for people of all ages and developmental abilities. You can cultivate understanding and communication as you navigate the complexities and nuances of your grieving as a family.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Family therapy is a dedicated space where you can share how grief is impacting your home, process your emotions while building communication and self-compassion skills, and learn practical tools to navigate life after loss. Every session is tailored to your unique needs and guided by a licensed therapist who specializes in grief and loss.

  • Sessions are typically 85 minutes.

  • Family therapy is provided direct pay only. Family therapy is $240 per session.

    Superbills for Out of Network Reimbursement are not available because it is not my practice to diagnose any individual family member in family therapy.

    Session fees are payable through a secure Electronic Health Record platform via debit, credit, or HSA/FSA.

  • Family therapy is ideal if your home environment has been disrupted or the connection and communication in your home has been disconnected due to a life-altering loss or life-limiting diagnosis of a family member. Family therapy focuses on elucidating family values, establishing habits that support stability and connection, and including all family members in healthy grieving.

    Couples grief therapy is the right fit f your challenges present most in your relationship. Couples grief therapy is for committed couples struggling after life-altering loss or diagnosis of a life-limiting illness. In couples therapy, clients build relational understanding and skills of communication, verbal and nonverbal, to cultivate attuned connection in the presence of human mortality and grief.

    Individual therapy is the right fit for deeper cultivation of resiliency and processing of grief and loss. Individual therapy tends to meet more frequently and for longer duration than couples therapy; individual therapy has a broader focus also starting from a struggle with navigating life-altering loss.

  • The introductory call is a free 20-minute conversation where you can share about the loss which is impacting your family and ask questions about the therapy and the therapist. It’s an opportunity to clarify if family grief therapy is your next right step before scheduling a billable session.

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