Family Therapy for Teenagers & Adults | Strengthening Bonds Across Generations
Attachment-based therapy to help families — teens and adults — rebuild trust, deepen connection, and create a safe emotional home for every family member
When home doesn’t feel like home anymore……
You love your family — deeply.
But right now, something’s not working.
Conversations turn into arguments, silence stretches too long, and even the simplest moments feel tense or disconnected.
💬 “I don’t know how to reach my teenager anymore.”
💬 “Every conversation ends in frustration or silence.”
💬 “I feel overwhelmed balancing my role as a parent, partner, and adult child.”
💬 “We want to support each other, but old wounds and misunderstandings keep getting in the way.”
Whether you're navigating tension with a teenager, struggling with your parents as an adult, or feeling the emotional weight of unspoken family patterns — you’re not alone.
So many families, especially in Chinese and Asian American communities, carry pain quietly.
We love deeply, but we don’t always know how to express it. The pain of disconnection is so real. It’s painful to feel distant from the people you care about most.
It’s not that you don’t care.
You just don’t know how to find your way back to each other.
Beneath the conflict and distance, there’s hope — a desire for connection, respect, and belonging that can still grow.
Attachment-Based Family Therapy
— Healing the Heart of Your Relationships
When emotional bonds are strained, families suffer. Attachment-based therapy helps repair those bonds so every person can feel seen, safe, and supported again.
I work with families across generations — from parents and teens to adult children and their elders — using a gentle, emotionally focused, and attachment-rooted approach.
As a Chinese immigrant and licensed therapist, I understand how cultural expectations, intergenerational trauma, and emotional silences can complicate love.
I know the unspoken rules: "Don’t talk back.", “Save family face.”, "Keep the peace.", "Family comes first — even if it hurts."
In our work together, I hold space for both love and pain.
We can honor your culture and find new ways to communicate, set boundaries, and heal.
Family Therapy with Teenagers
Rebuild connection when adolescence pulls you apart
You’re trying so hard to stay connected to your teen — but everything you say seems to backfire.
Simple conversations turn into arguments.
The eye rolls, the silence, the slammed doors — they leave you feeling shut out, confused, or even heartbroken.
You miss the closeness you once had.
You worry: Are they okay? Do they know how much I care?
Of course you are exhausted. Parenting a teenager in today’s world — especially while navigating cultural values, identity, and generational expectations — can feel like walking a tightrope.
At the same time, you still see the child you love — and you want to reach them before the distance grows any wider.
In family therapy, we’ll work together to help you and your teen:
Argue less and understand each other more — so things don’t always turn into a fight
Talk without shutting down or blowing up — even when it’s about hard stuff
Make sense of your different worlds — including your values, cultures, and ways of showing love
Support your teen as they figure out who they are — whether they’re neurodivergent, questioning their identity, or just trying to find their place
Get out of the cycle of yelling, silence, or walking on eggshells
Have more moments of peace and closeness — even if things have felt tense for a long time
Imagine your teen looking at you and saying, “You really get me now.”
Or being able to say, “I love you” — and seeing it land, because they finally believe it.
You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to be willing to show up — and I’ll help guide the way.
Many teens act out not because they don’t care — but because they don’t feel safe enough to be vulnerable. Together, we can bring calm, clarity, and closeness back to your family.
👨👩👧 Adult Family Therapy
Old wounds, shifting roles, and long histories — adult families need healing too
You love your family — but it’s complicated.
Old wounds still ache. Boundaries feel blurred. Conversations turn tense, or avoidant.
You try to move forward, but somehow you keep getting pulled back into the same pain.
Maybe you feel like the emotional parent, always holding everyone else together.
Maybe you dread the next phone call. Or wish your family could finally see who you are now.
Family patterns run deep — especially when layered with caregiving stress, cultural expectations, life transitions, or the pressure to always keep the peace.
In therapy, we’ll create a space where you can:
Have honest conversations without blame or shame
Break long-standing cycles of silence or resentment
Rebuild trust after years of miscommunication or silence
Set boundaries that protect your peace and honor your values
Understand each other’s perspectives — across generations, identities, or cultures
Begin healing, not by erasing the past, but by choosing something different now
Many of the families I work with are carrying unspoken grief, loyalty, or longing. Therapy makes space to finally talk about what hasn’t been said — and to move forward with more compassion and clarity.
It’s not too late. You don’t have to keep pretending everything’s okay.
And you don’t have to cut off family just to feel safe.
There’s a middle path — and I can help you find it.
Services Overview
Therapy Services
Therapy for Chinese and Asian Americans (中文 / English)
Neurodiversity-Affirming Individual and Couple Therapy
EFT Couple Therapy
Family Therapy
