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Family Therapy for Intergenerational Healing

Culturally affirming family therapy to heal generational trauma, improve communication, rebuild trust, and create an intentional foundation for your family's future.

breaking cycles, together.

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Every Generation Has a Story

We consider culture, migration, faith, family roles, and inherited expectations—not only the conflict that brought your family to therapy.

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No One Has to Be the Villain

Family therapy is not about deciding who is right. We help each person feel heard while uncovering the patterns behind arguments, emotional distance, and shutdown.

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Change the Pattern, Not Your Culture

You can honor where your family comes from while changing what causes pain. Together, we build clearer boundaries, stronger communication, and trust that can carry into the next generation.

therapists for families

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Shivani Solanki Patel, M.S., LPC, MT-BC | Clinical Director

Ayesha Youngblood, M.A., LPC | Lead Clinician

Ayesha Kadri, M.A., LPC

Sanjana Iyer, M.A., LPC Associate

Sylvia Kim, M.S., LPC Associate

Teresa Nguyen, M.S., LPC Associate

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Is Your Family Carrying More Than Anyone Knows How to Say?

Maybe the same arguments keep returning because they are connected to something deeper—cultural expectations, generational differences, shifting family roles, or years of needs left unspoken. Everyone may care deeply while still feeling misunderstood, distant, or unsure how to move forward together.

We look beyond blame to understand the full story shaping your family. Family therapy can help you communicate more honestly, create boundaries that respect both connection and individuality, and change painful patterns without asking anyone to abandon their culture or identity.

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How Family Therapy Can Help

  • Understand the patterns beneath repeated arguments, distance, or emotional shutdown

  • Improve communication between parents, teens, adult children, siblings, and extended family

  • Navigate cultural and generational differences without treating one person as the problem

  • Address parentification, caregiving expectations, family roles, and unclear boundaries

  • Adapt to divorce, remarriage, blended families, relocation, illness, grief, or changing responsibilities

  • Repair trust while creating healthier patterns for the generations that follow

Why Choose Intentional Therapy for Family Therapy

Intentional Therapy sees your family in its full context. We understand that conflict may be shaped by culture, immigration experiences, intergenerational trauma, family hierarchy, faith, sacrifice, and different ideas about responsibility or respect.

Family therapy with us is not about choosing sides or assigning blame. Our therapists help each person feel heard while identifying the patterns affecting the entire family. Together, you can preserve the relationships and traditions that matter while changing the dynamics that continue to cause pain.

We offer culturally responsive family therapy in Richardson and virtually based on clinician availability and client location.

THE PROCESS

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free consultation

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goal setting

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Your Family Can Stay Connected Without Staying Stuck.

Honor where your family comes from while creating healthier patterns for the generations still becoming.