True Living Counselling & coaching
Family Therapy and Counselling in Okotoks, AB
Compassionate family therapy helping families reconnect, communicate more effectively, and navigate challenges together. Whether you’re facing conflict, transitions, parenting concerns, or emotional struggles, we provide a safe space to build stronger relationships and create lasting change.
Helping families reconnect, improve communication, and navigate life's challenges together.
Build healthier connections based on trust, understanding, and respect.
Learn practical tools for reducing conflict and expressing thoughts and feelings more effectively.
Develop healthier patterns that help your family work through challenges together.
Family Therapy Support for Today’s Challenges
Modern families face many challenges. Whether you’re experiencing ongoing conflict, parenting struggles, major life transitions, divorce, grief, blended family dynamics, behavioural concerns, or communication breakdowns, it can feel overwhelming trying to navigate everything on your own.
Family therapy provides a safe, supportive environment where every family member has the opportunity to feel heard, understood, and respected.
At True Living Counselling & Coaching, our experienced family therapists work collaboratively with families to strengthen relationships, improve communication, resolve conflict, and create healthier ways of connecting.
Family THERAPY IN OKOTOKS, AB
What Is Family Therapy?
Family therapy is a collaborative and supportive process that helps families improve communication, strengthen relationships, and navigate challenges together. It recognizes that every family has unique dynamics, experiences, and strengths, and provides a safe, non-judgemental space where family members can feel heard and understood.
During family counselling sessions, a therapist works with parents, children, teens, and other family members to explore patterns of communication, emotions, relationships, and experiences that may be impacting the family. Therapy may focus on current challenges, past experiences, major life transitions, or creating healthier ways to connect and support one another.
Family therapy can help families:
- Improve communication and understanding
- Work through conflict and disagreements
- Strengthen relationships between family members
- Develop healthier ways to express emotions and needs
- Better understand each other’s perspectives
- Navigate parenting challenges and family transitions
- Support children and teens through emotional or behavioural struggles
- Build stronger connections and create positive change at home
Your family therapist will help guide conversations, provide tools for healthier interactions, and support each family member in feeling valued and respected. Depending on the family’s needs, sessions may include the whole family, parents or caregivers, children, teens, or a combination of family members.
At the beginning of therapy, your therapist will discuss the goals of counselling, how sessions will work, and what level of involvement is most helpful for your family. The focus is always on creating a supportive environment where families can learn, heal, and grow together.
True Living Counselling offers both short-term, solution-focused family therapy and longer-term counselling support based on your family’s unique needs, goals, and circumstances.
Family Therapy is:
Transformative
An opportunity for families to strengthen relationships, work through challenges, and build the tools needed to grow, heal, and thrive together.
Supportive
A compassionate, non-judgemental space where family members can feel heard, understood, and supported while navigating challenges together.
Empowering
Practical support that helps you and your family build stronger connections, healthier communication, and a deeper understanding of one another.
Signs Your Family May Benefit from Therapy
Common Reasons Families Come to Therapy
There is no single “right” reason for a family to begin therapy. Some families seek support during a specific challenge, while others may simply feel that communication has become more difficult, relationships feel strained, or they want to create a stronger connection with one another.
Family therapy can provide support for families experiencing:
- Parent-child conflict
- Teen-parent communication
- Divorce & separation
- Blended family adjustment
- Sibling conflict
- Communication
- Behavioural concerns
- Anxiety affecting the family
- ADHD challenges
- Emotional regulation
- Family conflict
- Family stress
- Trauma
- Grief and loss
- Major life transitions
- Conflict resolution
- Boundaries
- Parenting differences
- Co-parenting
Family therapy in Okotoks can help families feel understood, improve communication, strengthen relationships, and develop healthier ways to navigate life’s challenges together.
Family Therapy Approaches
Approaches We May Use In Family Therapy
Our therapists draw from a variety of evidence-informed and age-appropriate counselling approaches. The methods used will depend on your family’s needs and therapy goals.
Emotion Focused Family Therapy
Emotion Focused Family Therapy helps family members identify, express, and better understand their emotions while strengthening connection and trust. It supports families in creating more secure, supportive relationships where everyone feels heard and valued.
Family Systems Therapy
Family Systems Therapy looks at the family as a whole and explores how relationships, communication patterns, and family dynamics influence each person. It helps families better understand one another and create healthier ways of connecting and responding to challenges.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on strengthening the emotional bonds between family members. It helps families build trust, improve connection, and create relationships where children and caregivers feel safe, supported, and understood.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT helps families understand the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. It provides practical tools to manage stress, improve communication, and develop healthier responses to difficult situations.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
DBT teaches skills that support emotional regulation, mindfulness, communication, and coping with challenging emotions. Families can learn strategies to better understand emotional experiences and respond to each other with greater compassion.
Solution Focused Therapy
Solution Focused Therapy focuses on identifying strengths, building on what is already working, and creating practical steps toward positive change. Families learn strategies to improve communication, overcome challenges, and move toward their goals.
Trauma Informed Therapy
Trauma-Informed Therapy recognizes how difficult experiences can impact emotions, behaviours, and relationships. This approach helps families create safety, understanding, and healing while developing healthier ways to support one another.
Play-Based Therapy
Play Therapy allows younger children to express their feelings, experiences, and needs through play in a safe and supportive environment. It helps children build emotional skills while helping families better understand and respond to their child’s world.
Parent Coaching
Parent Coaching provides caregivers with practical tools and support to better understand their child’s needs, strengthen connection, and navigate parenting challenges with greater confidence and compassion.
Contact True Living Counselling & Coaching to learn more about family therapy in Okotoks. Our team can help you find a therapist whose experience and approach align with your family’s needs.
What to Expect from family Therapy
How Our Family Therapy Works
Begin the Conversation
Our first priority is to understand you, your family, your concerns, and what your family hopes to gain from counselling. The process will begin by booking an initial family session with your therapist.
Create a Personalized Family Plan
Develop a personalized therapy plan based on your family's unique needs.
Build Skills and Create Change
Through ongoing sessions, practice new communication skills, resolve conflict, and strengthen connections over time.
Your family does not need to have everything figured out before asking for support.
Why Us
True Living
Counselling & Coaching
This is about more than just healing—it’s about helping you live a meaningful, fulfilling life that’s truly yours.
Whether it’s trauma, anxiety, or self-doubt—your challenges don’t have to define you. At True Living Counselling & Coaching, we help you reconnect with your true self, let go of past pain, and build a life that feels right for you.
With years of experience, our caring team offers a safe, non-judgemental space for you to explore your story. We offer personalized therapy and coaching using proven methods like Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to create lasting change.
Our mission is simple: to guide you from hurt to healing and help you live a life that reflects who you really are. Change to: to guide you from hurt to healing and help you live the life you truly want.
Together, we can create the future you deserve.
Our team believes in:
Being Human First
We see you as a person, not a diagnosis, creating a warm, compassionate space for healing.
Acting With Empathy
We listen deeply, making sure you feel heard and supported on your journey to growth.
Authenticity
We believe in showing up as our real, imperfect, and human selves—because true healing happens when we embrace authenticity, both in therapy and in life.
Family THERAPy OKOTOKS
Questions About Teen Therapy in Okotoks
What is family therapy and who can benefit from it?
Family therapy is a form of counselling that helps family members improve communication, strengthen relationships, and navigate challenges together. It can support families experiencing conflict, life transitions, parenting challenges, emotional struggles, communication difficulties, or simply wanting to build a stronger connection with one another. Family therapy may include parents, children, teens, or other family members depending on your family’s unique needs.
Where do you offer in-person family therapy?
We offer in-person family therapy in Okotoks. Virtual counselling is also available across Alberta.
Does my family need to be in crisis to start therapy?
No. Families seek therapy for many different reasons, and support does not have to begin during a crisis. Family therapy can help with improving communication, strengthening relationships, navigating transitions, managing conflict, supporting children and teens, and creating healthier patterns within the family.
Do you offer online family therapy?
Yes. We offer virtual family therapy across Alberta. Some therapists may also be able to provide virtual services in other Canadian provinces, depending on their professional registration.
Please review individual therapist biographies or contact our team to confirm where each therapist can provide services.
Who participates in family therapy sessions?
Family therapy sessions are tailored to each family’s needs. Sessions may include the entire family, parents or caregivers, children, teens, or a combination of family members. Your therapist will work with you to determine who should be involved to best support your family’s goals.
Does insurance cover family counselling?
Many extended health insurance plans cover services provided by registered psychologists, registered provisional psychologists, registered social workers, or other eligible mental health professionals.
Coverage varies between insurance plans. We recommend contacting your insurance provider to confirm which professional designations are covered under your specific plan.
Please take a look at our Direct Billing page for more information.
Do you offer direct billing for family therapy?
Yes, we direct bill to many insurance companies. See our Direct Billing page for more information.
True Living Counselling & Coaching
How To Get Started
587-896-6919
21 Elizabeth St #106, Okotoks, AB T1S 2C1
5min NW of High River, AB.