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.
Do any of these sound familiar?
The arguments are getting louder.
Raised voices in meetings, someone storms out, and the same fight starts again a week later. Everyone can see it is hurting the family.
Nobody is really talking.
You speak in the boardroom because you have to, then go quiet. Family dinners are tense, or they've stopped altogether.
You've tried everything, and it keeps coming back.
The hard conversations, the promises, the family meetings. Nothing has shifted, and the same problems between you keep returning.
This isn't about one or two difficult people. It's a pattern running in the family, and patterns repeat until someone helps the family change them.
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 →
Training: 1 Format
How It Works
Every engagement follows the same five stages, in a deliberate order, so that by the time your whole family meets, everyone has already done their own work.
- 1
Free 30-Minute Consultation
A confidential video or phone conversation. We share our approach, and together we decide whether everpath is the right fit for your family.
- 2
Written Agreement
Every member receives the same agreement. It sets out confidentiality, how sessions run, and what to expect, so everyone starts on equal terms.
- 3
Individual Sessions
Each member first has two or three sessions alone. We help them shift their individual patterns and prepare them for the joint sessions ahead.
- 4
Key Pair Sessions
Each key pair, such as siblings or a parent and successor, works on their relationship, moving from naming the pattern to practising a new one.
- 5
Family-Wide Sessions
With the groundwork done, the whole family meets. Over one or two days, members practise new ways of speaking, repairing, and deciding together.
Why business families choose a family business psychotherapist
Because resolving family business conflict requires more than governance frameworks and shareholder agreements. It requires working with the relational patterns underneath.
Deep Psychotherapy + 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.
Local Presence, APAC Reach
In-person therapy rooms in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, and Hobart. We work throughout Asia Pacific for geographically spread family businesses.
We work alongside your accountant, lawyer, and family business advisor, not instead of them. They build the structures. We work on the relationships those structures depend on.
Tom Skotidas founded everpath after watching promising family businesses stall because of interpersonal conflict.
As a masters-qualified 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.
Master of Counselling, Torrens University- Member of the Australian Counselling Association
- Member of the Family Business Association of Australia
- Founder and director of a family business since 2011
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: Melbourne, Parramatta, Sydney, 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 make sure it holds.
One confidential conversation. No preparation needed and no commitment required. Just a friendly conversation about what's happening and whether everpath is the right fit.