The family shapes the business.
We work with both.
Family business therapy for multi-generational families. We resolve the patterns beneath the conflict—so relationships repair, succession moves forward, and the enterprise endures.
67% of family businesses never make it to the second generation. Unresolved conflict significantly increases owners' intention to exit.
Source: Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses (Hoffman et al., 2020)
Common challenges we help business families and family offices 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.
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 psychotherapy, training workshops, and speaking engagements
to help business families resolve conflict, restore trust, and thrive as a system.
Specialist Psychotherapy
Therapy for Business
Families
We work with multi-generational business families to resolve conflict at the root, restore trust, and build better ways of communicating and making decisions—around the table and in the boardroom.
Therapy for Family Business Co-Owners & Key Pairs
Specialist psychotherapy for owner-couples, siblings, parent–adult child pairs, and other family co-owners navigating conflict or misalignment that is impacting both the relationship and the business.
Therapy for Individual Family Business Leaders
One-to-one psychotherapy for founders, successors, and senior family business leaders to process pressure, entrenched 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 business families and key leaders 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, reduce conflict, and build the trust needed for better decisions 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
Your family built something worth protecting.
Let's make sure it holds.
One confidential conversation. No preparation needed—no commitment required.
Just a friendly conversation about what's happening and whether everpath is the right fit.
