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Relationships & Family

Family Therapy

Care for family stress, conflict, and shifting dynamics

Family therapy can help when a household feels strained, disconnected, or stuck in patterns that affect everyone.

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When This Can Help
  • Family conflict keeps repeating without resolution
  • A transition or stressor is affecting the whole household
  • Communication feels tense, guarded, or disconnected
  • You want support building a more stable and connected family system
Support May Include
  • Creating more open, respectful family communication
  • Understanding each person’s experience within the family system
  • Strengthening connection, boundaries, and mutual support
Good Match For

Families

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What This Support Can Address

A clearer look at what people may be carrying when they reach out for this kind of care.

Families carry shared experiences, but each person experiences them differently. Stress, conflict, transitions, parenting concerns, and unresolved hurt can strain the whole system and make daily life feel tense or disconnected.

Our Approach

How we try to make care feel both skillful and genuinely human.

We help families understand how their patterns are working, where communication is breaking down, and how to create more supportive ways of relating. The goal is not perfection, but stronger connection and healthier functioning together.

Therapists Connected to This Work

These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to family therapy.

Photo of Natalie Watson, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Natalie is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Natalie Watson, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Marina Canella, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Marina is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Marina Canella, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Claudia Kraake, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Claudia is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Claudia Kraake, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Paola Gutierrez, Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. Paola is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Paola Gutierrez, AMFT

Associate Therapist