Family Estrangement Therapy
Estrangement is so hard.
It impacts your ability to feel happy, healthy and whole.
This leaves us feeling fractured and incomplete.
No one deserves to live in unresolved estrangement.
Are you estranged from your child(ren)?
Therapy for Estranged Parents
Are you estranged from your parents?
Therapy for Adult Estranged Children
Are you estranged from a family member or friend?
Therapy for Estranged Loved Ones
Taking you from confusion, pain and hurt to understanding, resiliency and acceptance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Becoming Estranged is often a last resort. It is also an important, crucial step that liberates the estranger to say "this relationship cannot continue this way". This takes a tremendous amount of courage but it is not the end of the journey. It is only the first stage and staying stuck in this stage while escaping an unhealthy relationship often leaves both parties feeling angry, lost, hurt and confused.
Estrangement is H.A.R.D, taking you from confusion, pain and hurt to understanding, resiliency and acceptance is possible.
Absolutely Not.
My approach is to help Estranged individuals heal from the traumas of the relationship while also gaining a deeper understanding of the complexities of Estrangement. With less pain and more insight the client is better able to manage life and move forward with or without the relationship.
The old relationship NO. A new relationship...possibly.
The old relationship is dead. The reason your loved one has estranged is because the relationship was not working. No one makes the choice to Estrange lightly, some say it is no choice at all-- rather a last resort.
What I have helped Estranged and Estrangees do is understand one another better. Gain insight into each other's perspective, each other's values, beliefs and imperfections.
At times this creates new understanding and perspective that a NEW relationship may be born from.
ESTRANGEMENT WILL NEVER NOT BE HARD, BUT YOU CAN FIND PEACE
"James helped my wife and myself escape what felt like the never ending purgatory of estrangement. It was the not knowing that was eating us from the inside out more and more with each passing day.
We don't know if we will ever hear from our daughter again, we hope we will. But we have found peace in knowing that it is beyond our control. We have done all that we can to keep a door open for reconciliation in the future.
Without James we were stuck, now we know we have done all we could and it is out of our hands."
peter & mary
"I was viciously angry at my parents for so long.
I knew I had made the right choice to get out of the toxic relationship but the pain, loneliness and anger persisted for years.
James helped me unpack the anger. He never judged me for it and it never felt like he was taking sides.
The new boundaries I have created for myself and my family are working. It is hard work and I am often challenged but for me it is worth it."
jessica
"James helped me so much in a short period of time.
I had so much shame and guilt around my estrangement that I could only share it with my partner. And I did that sparingly because I felt like a burden.
James helped me understand the layers and levels of Estrangement. Being armed with this deeper understanding has removed my shame and guilt. Any decisions I make or do not make in the future will be my own without second guessing.
Thanks James."
Stephanie