At North Star Families, located in the Los Angeles area, we believe families can be resilient, connected, and equipped to handle life’s challenges when they’re supported in the right way. Family therapy is a powerful tool to help you better understand one another, navigate conflict, and create a stronger foundation of trust and collaboration.
Whether you’re parenting a neurodivergent child, facing a major life transition, or simply feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns, our therapists offer compassionate, evidence-based care tailored to your family’s unique needs.
We support families and children with mental health, emotional regulation and communication challenges, during periods of anxiety and depression, during life and identity transitions, through loss and trauma. Through a neuroaffirming, LGBTQ+ affirming and wholistic approach—assessment, recommendations, and targeted interventions—we provide meaningful, short-term or long-term, flexible, support.
Families come to us for support with a range of concerns, including:
We welcome all types of families, including LGBTQ+ families, single-parent households, and blended families.
At North Star Families, we take a collaborative, non-judgmental approach to family therapy. You can expect:
– A safe, supportive space for every member of your family
– Therapists who listen deeply and guide with compassion
– Tools to help reduce conflict, increase empathy, and improve communication
– Tailored strategies that align with your family’s values and goals
– Integration of parenting coaching, child/adolescent therapy, or individual sessions when helpful
– We’ll work together to build clarity and confidence so your family can move forward with more peace and connection.
Our therapists are trained in modalities such as Child-Parent Psychotherapy, EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), SPACE treatment (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), the Reflective Parenting Program, DIR/Floortime and Trauma Informed CBT. We work with children, teens, and adults, meeting your family where you are. We have locations in Beverly Hills, Pasadena, West LA, Silverlake and Studio City for you to visit with our therapists.
Our North Star is the guiding force in every action and decision we make and we articulate these principles in our core values. What sets our group practice apart are our values, along with our expertise.
For us, our relationship with parents is primary. One of the most important pieces of information to come from developmental research over the last forty years is that a major protective factor of childhood mental health, even for those impacted by loss or trauma, is parents willingness to reflect on their own feelings, and their child’s feelings, particularly feelings of distress. This is because feelings of distress – anger, shame, guilt- are more likely to make a child and a parent reactive. If we can slow down our reactions to our child’s distress, it is more likely to create a stronger bond over the life span.
Our goal is to help parents, no matter what age their child is, make sense of their child’s feelings and behavior from a developmentally informed, reflective lens. We know that if children feel like their parents are trying to understand their experience it makes a positive impact on the relationship.
Also, no parent is perfect and no relationship is without misunderstandings and conflict. In fact, repairing ruptures creates incredible connection because true repair involves understanding and reflecting the other person’s experience.
We also believe in the power of parent community, and offer parent groups, seminars on important topics by experts within and outside of our community, and also parent and baby/toddler groups to offer connection to the youngest of our community. Located in the Los Angeles area, we have many locations for you to choose from.
