Why Co-Founder Therapy?
Because when you transform the partnership, you transform the organisation.
Because 65% of startups fail due to co-founder conflict.
Unresolved conflict is the #1 threat to critical partnerships
Research consistently shows that unresolved conflict between partners is the leading cause of business breakdown—not just for startups, but for family-owned businesses, mission-critical duos, and critical partnership teams alike.
We can't afford to lose the next industry disruptor
Imagine a world where Airbnb never revolutionised travel, or where Uber never transformed urban mobility. How much innovation, convenience, and prosperity would we have missed if co-founder conflict had destroyed these partnerships early? Co-Founder Therapy protects critical partnerships and ensures your company can achieve its fullest potential.
Because great partnerships need more than coaching or mediation.
Typical solutions don't reach the root issues
Executive coaching, mediation, and team training manage surface-level challenges, but rarely resolve deeper emotional and relational dynamics. True transformation requires addressing trust, emotional alignment, and communication at their roots.
Lasting change demands deeper intervention
Co-Founder Therapy, developed by everpath, uses proven couples therapy and group therapy models tailored specifically for critical duos and teams. Research demonstrates that these therapy approaches create improvements in conflict resolution, trust, and collaboration —both immediately and over the long term.
Trusted by co-founders, C-suite duos, and senior leadership teams
Because your partnership sets the cultural tone for your entire company.
Your team follows your example
Employees constantly watch and emulate their leaders. When co-founders communicate openly, demonstrate emotional resilience, and model deep trust, it sets a powerful standard. Your behaviours ripple outward, shaping your entire organisational culture.
Partnership health drives organisational performance
As your partnership transforms, expect tangible shifts across your teams. Healthier interactions become the norm, as trust and clarity take hold. Empowered by your example, employees gain the confidence and emotional safety they need to perform at their absolute best.
Because when you heal one partnership, you heal countless relationships.
The personal impact of co-founder conflict
Co-founders live intense, high-stakes lives, often quietly carrying unresolved emotional wounds and hidden stress. When partnership tensions escalate, the strain doesn’t stay in the office—it ripples outward, affecting relationships with family, friends, and loved ones.
Transform one relationship, transform them all
Co-Founder Therapy goes beyond typical business interventions, healing emotional and relational wounds at their deepest levels. As co-founders experience relational healing and build genuine emotional resilience, the positive impact extends far beyond the workplace—creating healthier, more meaningful connections at home, with friends, and throughout their communities.
Because critical partnerships deserve evidence-based solutions.
Gestalt Therapy
Research shows
Couples often shift from distressed into the healthy range
Business application
Rebuilds trust, surfaces key emotions, and restores emotional engagement
Schema Therapy
Research shows
Couples often shift from distressed into the healthy range
Business application
Rebuilds trust, surfaces key emotions, and restores emotional engagement
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Research shows
Couples often shift from distressed into the healthy range
Business application
Rebuilds trust, surfaces key emotions, and restores emotional engagement
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)
Research shows
Couples often shift from distressed into the healthy range
Business application
Rebuilds trust, surfaces key emotions, and restores emotional engagement
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Research shows
Couples often shift from distressed into the healthy range
Business application
Rebuilds trust, surfaces key emotions, and restores emotional engagement
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Research shows
High success in goal completion, often in fewer sessions
Business application
Focuses each meeting on achievable shifts—what's working and what will happen next
Chairwork Therapy
Research shows
Strong reductions in self-criticism and interpersonal conflict
Business application
Helps partners voice unspoken frustrations, clarify boundaries, and feel understood
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Research shows
As effective as CBT in improving mood and relational function
Business application
Provides a framework for navigating changes in roles, expectations, and emotional expression
Because co-founder therapy is rapidly gaining recognition worldwide.
Co-founder ‘couples therapy’ helps avoid company-killing pitfalls
Nov 2019
Co-founder therapy teaches tech bros how to be in their feelings
Mar 2020
CLEARSTEM’s Founders Use Co-Founder Therapy. Here’s What You Can Learn From Their Experience
Oct 2023
The Pandemic Drives Cofounders to Couples Therapy
Aug 2021
Young, successful tech cofounders have a secret weapon: couples therapy
Apr 2024
Couples Therapy for Co-founders
Feb 2025
Because critical partnerships deserve specialist expertise.
As a Master's-qualified psychotherapist and founder of four companies, Tom uniquely combines clinical expertise with real-world business experience. He founded everpath after witnessing how co-founder conflict can fracture relationships and stall companies.
Master of Counselling, Level 2 ACA member
Advanced certifications in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), and Schema Therapy
Founded four companies since 2011
Targeted therapy for co-founders at every stage of their journey.
Co-founder challenges evolve as your business grows. Our approach adapts to your stage.
Pre-formation
Testing chemistry, shaping your concept, locking in the equity split before incorporation. Therapy now sets healthy communication norms and keeps equity talks from sowing future resentment.
Early-stage
Racing to prove product-market fit while every decision matters. You're choosing co-founder therapy to resolve tensions quickly before stress derails your speed, trust, and focus.
Scale-up
Managing rapid growth with expanding teams and investor pressure. You're choosing co-founder therapy to realign your vision, clarify evolving roles, and prevent growth from fracturing your partnership.
Established
Preparing for exits, IPOs, or major transitions where partnership health directly impacts valuation. You're choosing co-founder therapy to safeguard trust when high-stakes scrutiny can magnify small rifts.
Don’t let conflict derail your partnership.
Join the co-founders, C-suite duos, and leadership teams resolving conflict
and transforming performance with High-Stakes Partnership Therapy.
