Family Therapy
When one person is struggling, the whole family feels it. Family therapy brings parents, siblings, and caregivers into the work together, so healing happens as a household rather than alone.
Family sessions don’t happen in isolation. They’re coordinated with your individual therapy and the rest of your care, so every part of your treatment works from the same plan.
Sample schedule
*Available as needed
01—05
Sample schedule
*Available as needed
Family therapy is counseling that helps a household support a loved one’s mental health together. Sessions focus on the relationships around the person in treatment — building better ways to talk, listen, and support each other, during treatment and after. At Charlie Health, family therapy is delivered virtually as part of intensive outpatient care (IOP) and led by your Primary Therapist. The goal is to treat the household as a team and build resilience, together.
Family therapy at Charlie Health happens online — which makes it easier for everyone to actually show up. A parent can join from work, a sibling from their dorm, a grandparent from another state, all in the same session.
You meet weekly (or as frequently as your treatment plan calls for) with a licensed family therapist, over secure video.
Family members can join from their own device, wherever they are.
Sessions center on your loved one — focused on the relationships and communication around them.
What comes up connects to the individual and group work happening the rest of the week.
What to expect
In a family session, everyone in the room is working toward the same thing together. Your therapist holds a calm, structured space where the hard conversations feel more possible. Sessions might focus on:
Understanding
Making sense of what your loved one is going through, so support can replace confusion or frustration
Communication
How to talk, and really listen to each other, especially about the hard things
Pattern identification
Noticing the loops a family gets stuck in and finding new ways through
Practical support
What actually helps at home and what to do in the tough moments
Repair connection
Rebuilding trust and closeness where it’s been strained
Treating the household as a team changes what happens between sessions, not just during them. A few of the ways it helps:
Guidance on what actually helps at home, and what to do in the hard moments.
Progress holds better when the people at home are working on it with you.
When the family understands what's going on, tension starts to ease.
Everyone learns how to communicate and cope, not just the person in treatment.
