Family Therapy in Dallas, TX & New Mexico
Heal Your Family System. Honor Generational Stories. Build New Connections.
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Who is this service for?
This family therapy service is for families ready to make positive changes in their home. It helps families struggling with communication breakdowns, sibling conflict, or emotional distance. We support family members seeking to heal old patterns and build stronger, more harmonious relationships for current and future generations.
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Welcome to Family Therapy at Kairos Counseling. This service helps your entire family system. We honor your unique generational stories. We guide you toward new, healthier ways of relating. Let's rewrite your family's future together.
About Family Therapy
Family therapy helps you make powerful changes. It impacts your present family system. It also shapes future generations. We explore and heal early attachment relationships within the family. This involves understanding each individual's "parts of self" and enhancing nervous system awareness and regulation. Our effort is to help each individual grow. This brings a more relational way of living within the entire family system.
Many families seek our help due to challenging dynamics. These often show up as:
- Communication Struggles: Such as Withdrawal/Shutdown/Stonewalling.
- Conflict & Blame: Including Pursuit/Attacking or Blaming/Shaming patterns.
- Individual Symptoms Impacting the Family: Acknowledging symptoms like Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Dissociation, Worry, Sleeplessness, Eating Issues, or Addiction affecting family harmony.
Our Approach & Services
Our therapists combine leading therapeutic theories. We understand your family's unique dynamics. We use Attachment Theory. We apply Polyvagal Theory. Parts of Self Work is central. Interpersonal Neurobiology guides us. These help your family understand complex interactions.
We also use active therapy modalities. These methods help your family engage in healing together:
- Mindfulness: Being present and aware as a family.
- Relational Life Therapy: Improving direct and honest communication among family members.
- Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR): Processing individual and shared family traumas.
- Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT): Addressing emotional blockages within family members.
- Sandtray Therapy: Using symbolic play to explore family dynamics and roles.
- Expressive Arts Therapy: Healing through creative expression as a family unit.
- IASIS Micro Current Neurofeedback: Supporting nervous system regulation for individual family members.
- Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP): Improving nervous system regulation to foster co-regulation within the family.
What to Expect in Family Sessions:
We offer a safe, regulated, and deeply relational space. We explore past narratives that shape your family's present. We look at them from each family member's heart, mind, and body perspective. This moves your family toward claiming a new future together. We identify relational patterns your family learned. These are "truths" from your family's origin. We examine wounded and adaptive parts of self that formed from moments of relational misattunement. We embrace relational healing through resourcing and reprocessing. This offers repair to those early parts of self for all family members. It creates new, healthier relationships within the family system and with others.
Benefits of Family Therapy
Family therapy at Kairos Counseling helps your family:
- Understand Yourselves & Loved Ones: Gain greater compassion and clarity for each other.
- Regulate Emotions Collectively: Increase your family's ability for cognitive and emotional co-regulation.
- Increase Relational Strength: Build stronger bonds by honoring self and setting boundaries.
- Heal Generational Patterns: Break cycles of conflict for current and future generations.
- Rewrite Your Family Story: Create a new, positive collective narrative for your family's future.
Getting Started
Ready to begin your journey toward a stronger, healthier family? We offer a Free 15-Minute Consultation. This is available via Telehealth or in-person. It's a great way to see if we are a good fit for your family's needs.
Frequently asked questions
Don't let questions stop you from receiving the care you deserve!
At Kairos Counseling, our Dallas-based family therapists specialize in breaking negative communication cycles using Relational Life Therapy and Polyvagal Theory techniques. We help families replace patterns like stonewalling or blaming with healthier dialogue, while addressing the underlying nervous system responses that fuel conflicts. Most families see noticeable improvements in household communication within 6-8 sessions of our attachment-focused approach.
Our Dallas practice uniquely combines EMDR for family systems with Interpersonal Neurobiology to address inherited trauma patterns. Unlike traditional talk therapy, we use Sandtray Therapy and the Safe & Sound Protocol to help families process generational wounds at both the emotional and physiological levels - crucial for Texas families dealing with historical relational trauma.
Absolutely. At Kairos Counseling, we often begin with willing participants and gradually engage hesitant members as trust builds. Our therapists use gentle, neuroscience-backed methods (like IASIS neurofeedback) to create shifts that naturally draw in reluctant family members. Many Dallas families start with just 2-3 members before the whole system engages.
While every family's pace differs, most notice initial improvements in emotional safety and conflict reduction within 4-6 sessions of our Dallas family therapy program. Using measurable tools like nervous system co-regulation tracking and attachment mapping, we help families gauge progress in breaking old patterns and building new connections.