Adult Families: Less awkward around the Thanksgiving table.

Navigating family life in adulthood can be tricky. Pain from past experiences, disappointments, and misunderstandings can lead to disconnection and conflict.

Often, we think these relationships can’t change—that we’re stuck with them as they are. But if parents and adult children are willing to put in the effort to examine themselves, their relationship, and the barriers to connection, healing is possible.

I work with adult children and their parents, and also adult siblings to help them understand each other’s perspectives and needs. In our work together, family members are given the space to actually hear and listen to each other, often for the first time. They are then able to identify where they have gotten stuck and create new ways of interacting that are more mutually satisfying. It doesn’t have to be the way it’s always been.