Family business psychotherapy.
For the conversations the boardroom can't hold.
The conflict isn't about the business. It's a pattern running the family system — we work with the pattern.
Australia's first family business psychotherapy practice.
What We See in Business Families
The arguments are getting louder.
Raised voices. Someone storms out, and a week later it starts again. The staff can hear it, and everyone can see it's hurting the family.
Nobody is really talking.
Family dinners are tense, or they've quietly stopped. The resentment, the grief, and the old wounds go unspoken, yet they decide every vote.
The money is changing the family.
A sale, an inheritance, or a new family office has shifted who holds the power. Now everyone is keeping score, and the old roles no longer fit.
You've tried everything, and it keeps coming back.
Hard conversations, promises, family meetings, even a mediator. Nothing shifts, and each time it comes back, it costs a little more.
This isn't about one or two difficult people. It's a pattern running in the family. And patterns don't change on their own.
Our Services
We offer family business therapy, training, and speaking to help your family change the patterns running underneath the conflict.
Family Business Therapy: 3 Formats
For Business FamiliesFor multi-generational families resolving conflict and rebuilding trust.Explore →
For Co-Owners & Key PairsFor two family members whose relationship is shaping the business.Explore →
For Individual LeadersOne-to-one psychotherapy for founders, successors, and senior family leaders.Explore →
Before your whole family meets, each member does their own work first. See how it works →
Workshops: 1 Format
Your advisors build the structures. We work on the relationships they depend on.
Resolving family business conflict takes more than governance frameworks and shareholder agreements. As a dedicated family business psychotherapy practice, we work alongside your accountant, lawyer, and family business advisor, not instead of them, on the relational patterns underneath.
Clinical Expertise and Business Experience
We combine psychotherapy expertise with lived business experience. We understand both the emotional load and the commercial realities of leading a family enterprise.
Family-System Lens
We don't see "a problem person." We see the whole system: family history, ownership structure, roles, and unspoken rules, and we work at the root of what's driving the conflict.
In Person and Online
We meet families in person in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, and Hobart, and travel to families elsewhere in Australia. Online sessions are available anywhere in Asia Pacific.
Tom Skotidas founded everpath after watching promising family businesses stall because of interpersonal conflict.
As a psychotherapist, Tom works at the intersection of family, emotion, and enterprise performance. He also knows these pressures from the inside, as the founder and director of his own family business since 2011.
Masters-qualified Psychotherapist- Member of the Australian Counselling Association
- Member of the Family Business Association
- Regularly invited to speak at family business conferences and forums across Australia
My Shout podcast
Hear him in conversation
On the My Shout podcast, Tom talks about the clash with his brother that led to weeks of silence, and how the patterns we learn as children replay in the boardroom.
Also interviewed on
Where Tom Has Spoken
Tom is regularly invited to speak at family business forums and conferences.
- Asia Pacific Family Business Symposium, Perth
- Family Business Association, Advisor Connect Forums: Sydney, Parramatta, Melbourne, and Brisbane
- Family Business Association, Sydney Members Forum: Gold Coast
- PWN Family Office Congress XVII, Gold Coast
- The DEA Network
- The Leadership Thinktank, Sydney
Our Latest Insights: Family Business Therapy
Psychotherapy-based strategies to help business families resolve conflict, restore trust, and thrive as a system.
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Your family built something worth protecting.
Let's help it hold.
A private, confidential conversation about what's happening and whether everpath is the right fit. 30 minutes, at no cost. No preparation needed and no commitment required.