Online Family Therapy

Yes, every therapist who leads family therapy at Grouport is licensed, giving your family a credentialed family therapist online rather than an unverified counselor.

The family therapy network includes licensed psychologists (PhD, PsyD), licensed clinical social workers (LCSW), licensed mental health counselors (LMHC), and licensed marriage and family therapists (LMFT), each using proven, evidence-based methods with typically over a decade of clinical experience. This standard applies to every family therapist online matched through Grouport, so families searching for a qualified family counselor online get a licensed professional leading every session.

Yes, your family chooses its own family therapist, either right away at signup or with help from a care coordinator.

For bundled or specialized plans, a care coordinator reaches out by email and/or phone after signup to understand your family's specific needs and match you with the right family therapist online. Most families are placed within a few hours, or within 24-72 hours at most, and if the initial match isn't right, switching to a different family counselor is easy to arrange.

Yes, family therapy at Grouport is intended to be a completely private experience for your family alone. It's entirely up to you which family members join, whether that's an immediate household, adult siblings, a multi-generational group, or extended family, no one outside the people you choose to include is ever part of your sessions. Combined with HIPAA-compliant, end-to-end encrypted video technology, this makes online family therapy a private space for your family specifically, not a shared or open group setting.

Grouport is available worldwide for everyone! We serve clients of all ages and backgrounds, with all sessions held virtually over video chat.

✅ Adults (18+) – Access to all general therapy groups.
✅ Teens & Adolescents (Under 18) – Specialized therapy groups designed just for them.

No matter where you are, you can get the support you need from the comfort of home.

Grouport's family therapy includes Attachment-Based Family Therapy, an approach specifically designed to help teens and children build more secure attachments with parents and caregivers, making it a strong fit for families navigating teen behavioral issues.

What this looks like in practice:

1. A licensed family therapist online trained in evidence-based, attachment-focused methods.
2. Sessions that address the family system as a whole, rather than isolating the teen as "the problem".
3. Structural Family Therapy techniques that help reorganize roles and boundaries when a teen's behavior is disrupting family patterns.
4. Flexible scheduling that works around a teen's school and activity schedule alongside the rest of the family.

For families searching for a family therapist for teens or family therapy for adolescents specifically, this combination of attachment-based and structural techniques targets the relationship dynamics behind the behavior, not just the behavior itself. Families can also explore teen therapy directly if more focused, individual support for the teen is also needed alongside family sessions.

Grouport's family therapy is backed by internal studies and research collaborations with researchers from Carnegie Mellon, the University of Essex, and the University of Cologne, not just member testimonials. Among members, 80% start treatment with moderate to severe mental health symptoms, and 70% see a clinically significant reduction in anxiety and depression within 8 weeks. Half of members reach remission-level symptoms in that same window, and 90% say they'd be disappointed to lose access to care through Grouport. These outcomes, combined with real member testimonials, give families concrete evidence that working with a family therapist online through Grouport produces measurable results.

Grouport's family therapists use several evidence-based techniques, each suited to different family dynamics and goals.
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1. Structural Family Therapy: reorganizes roles and boundaries within the family system to improve overall functioning.
2. Brief Strategic Family Therapy: focuses on problem-solving and goal-setting to address specific challenges.
3. Narrative Family Therapy: helps families reframe their shared experiences by exploring and reshaping the stories they tell about themselves.
4. Attachment-Based Family Therapy: strengthens emotional bonds by helping children or teens develop more secure attachments with parents or caregivers.

A licensed family therapist online selects and blends these approaches based on what your specific family is navigating, whether that's communication breakdowns, family therapy for enmeshment, or rebuilding trust after conflict.

Online family therapy is helpful for families of all kinds, including parents and children, adult siblings, multi-generational households, stepfamilies, and families navigating caregiving roles. It's a strong fit if your family is dealing with unresolved conflict or communication breakdowns, navigating major transitions like divorce, loss, relocation, or caregiving challenges, or struggling with mental health, substance use, or chronic illness affecting the family system. It also helps with long-standing tension between parents, adult children, or siblings, issues that individual therapy hasn't fully resolved because they're rooted in family dynamics, or the impact of trauma or generational patterns.. Your family doesn't need to be in crisis to benefit, many families use a family counselor simply to grow, support each other, and improve how they relate, whether living under one roof or apart.

Grouport's family therapy specifically supports families navigating divorce, making it a strong option for anyone searching for a family therapist for divorce or co-parenting support.

Family therapy is well-suited to this transition because it addresses the family system directly, helping parents and children adjust to new roles and routines, process the emotional impact of the change, and rebuild healthy communication patterns during and after a divorce. A licensed family therapist online can work with whichever family members are involved, co-parents, children, or blended step-family units, and structure sessions around what your specific family needs during this transition.

Yes, Grouport's family therapy is designed to support families where substance use is affecting the family system, not just the individual struggling with it.

How this works:

1. Sessions address how substance use impacts family roles, trust, and communication, not just the individual's behavior.
2. A licensed family therapist online helps the whole family process the situation together, rather than leaving one member to navigate it alone.
3. Techniques like Structural Family Therapy can help reorganize unhealthy patterns that have formed around substance use.
4. Families can combine family therapy with individual therapy for the family member struggling with substance use, for more targeted, one-on-one support.

This combined approach makes online family therapy a practical option for families dealing with substance use, alongside more individual-focused care where needed.