Because family dynamics
shape business destiny
Psychotherapy specifically designed for business families
of 3–7 members who own and/or run a business together.
67% of family businesses never make it to the second generation. High interpersonal conflict significantly increases owners' intention to exit.
Source: Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses (Hoffman et al., 2020)
Targeted therapy for family business owners at each stage of their journey
Family business challenges shift as your company evolves. From founding dynamics to succession planning, each stage brings unique tensions between family relationships and business needs. Our approach addresses the specific challenges of your current stage.
Founding
Building the business while managing family dynamics 24/7. You're choosing co-founder therapy to establish healthy communication habits early and protect relationships before pressure creates lasting resentment.
Expansion
Growing revenue and headcount while unspoken expectations about control surface. You're choosing co-founder therapy to address these expectations now, preventing growth from eroding trust and goodwill.
Enterprise
Bringing in professional management while shifting from operators to executive leaders. You're choosing co-founder therapy to navigate this identity shift together and present a united front to outside leaders.
Succession
Planning ownership and leadership transitions that stir deep family emotions. You're choosing co-founder therapy to handle these emotions constructively and design a transition that feels fair to both parties.
Exit
Preparing for sale or generational handoff where partnership unity protects both wealth and family harmony. You're choosing co-founder therapy to process pride and grief while ensuring you exit with relationships intact.
Common challenges we help business families overcome
Succession Stalemates
You keep delaying hard conversations about who takes over, when, and on what terms. Different branches or siblings have different expectations. Staff, advisors, and lenders sense the uncertainty, and the next generation feels stuck in limbo.
Tradition Vs. Change
Some family members want to preserve the founder’s way of doing things; others push for new markets or new structures. Strategy meetings become tense, and disagreements about “the plan” often mask deeper conflicts.
Family Roles vs. Professional Roles
Sibling rivalries, parent–child dynamics, and birth order quietly shape decisions. Job titles say “CEO,” “Director,” or “Chair,” but old family roles and resentments still drive who gets heard, who gets sidelined, and how conflict plays out.
Money, Equity, and Fairness
Discussions about shareholding, salary, or dividends feel emotionally loaded. Questions about who “deserves” what quickly become personal. Financial conversations become defensive, avoided, or explosive.
Alliances, Splits, and Sides
Over time, sub-groups form—siblings vs siblings, branches vs branches, or “inside” vs “outside” the daily business. Decisions are influenced by unspoken alliances while the business struggles to move forward.
Impact of the Wider Family
Spouses and in-laws, whether in or outside the business, weigh in on key issues. Conflicts at work spill into dinners, holidays, and email threads. It becomes hard to know where “family life” ends and “business life” begins.
Trusted by founders, owners, and
senior leaders
Our approach to family business partnerships
Uncover Emotional Roots of Conflict
We use targeted therapeutic dialogue to safely explore unspoken tensions, long-held resentments, and emotional blocks affecting your relationships.
Repair Relationships and Rebuild Trust
Through clinically proven experiential techniques, we help you heal emotional ruptures, restore empathy, and rebuild family trust.
Embed new behaviours and enhance family collaboration
We guide you to create new communication patterns, emotional boundaries, and collaborative habits—establishing a healthier partnership dynamic for your future.
Results you can expect
Set Healthy Boundaries
Ensure family relationships enhance, not disrupt, your business success.
Make Calmer Decisions
Clearly separate family emotions from sound business decision-making.
Clarify Roles & Succession
Create clear alignment on roles, money, and succession—without family friction.
Our Services
We offer specialist family business therapy, relational workshops, and inspiring talks
designed to repair relationships and grow collaboration for business families.
Specialist Psychotherapy
Therapy for Business
Families
We work with multi-generational business families to address conflict at the root, repair trust, and build healthier ways of communicating and making decisions — both around the table and in the boardroom.
Therapy for Family Business Co-Owners & Key Pairs
Specialist psychotherapy for owner-couples, siblings, and parent–child partnerships that are navigating high-stakes decisions or misalignment that’s impacting both the relationship and the business.
Therapy for Individual Business Leaders
One-to-one psychotherapy for founders, successors, and senior leaders to process pressure, unhelpful patterns, and emotional load — so you can show up with greater clarity, steadiness, and agency.
Training & Speaking
Specialist Training for Business Families
Intensive, practical workshops where families and leadership teams practise new ways of speaking, listening, and working together — leaving with shared language, insights, and behaviours that stick.
Keynote Speaking &
Team Talks
Insightful, grounded talks that help business families and leadership teams understand relational dynamics, disarm conflict, and build high-trust partnerships that support performance over time.
How We Deliver Family Business Therapy
Every engagement with everpath starts with a free, confidential consultation.
This initial conversation helps us understand your situation, urgency, and goals, and allows us to recommend the most appropriate way of working together.
Depending on your needs, we offer three ways to engage with everpath.
Each approach uses the same therapeutic depth and relational framework, the difference is pace, intensity, and time horizon.
Therapy
Regular psychotherapy sessions (typically weekly or fortnightly)
Individual, pair, or family formats
60–90 minute sessions
A shared focus on a specific relational issue, transition, or pattern
The work is deep and evidence-based, but paced to fit alongside ongoing leadership and business responsibilities.
Initial consultation to understand context, relationships, and goals
Agreement on scope and cadence (who’s involved, how often, and why)
Ongoing sessions working with live relational patterns as they show up
Regular check-ins to review progress and adjust as needed
Intensives
One to five full-day sessions (6.5 hours per day)
Individual, pair, or group formats
Structured, facilitated conversations with space to slow things down
Live practice of new ways of speaking, listening, and deciding
This format allows families and partners to go deeper, faster — without the stop-start of weekly sessions.
Pre-work and alignment to clarify history, tensions, and priorities
One or more intensive days focused on the core relational dynamics
Facilitated practice of new conversations and behaviours
Clear agreements and next steps before returning to the business
An agreed monthly or quarterly allocation of therapy sessions
Flexible use across individuals, pairs, or family groups
Priority access when tensions or challenges arise
A mix of reflective, preventative, and responsive work
Initial alignment on values, goals, and scope of partnership
Ongoing access to therapy across the year
Proactive use of sessions, not just reactive problem-solving
Regular reviews to ensure the work remains relevant and valuable
Don’t let relational conflict decide
the future of your family business.
Invite your family members, co-owners, and key leaders
into a structured space where real change can begin.
