Family Pain Shouldn’t Be a Life Sentence

You don’t have to carry what your family never healed. We help you break cycles, restore trust, and rewrite the story.

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If you grew up believing that "this is just the way our family is," you're not alone. At the Trauma and Therapy Center of Tennessee, we specialize in working with families who are navigating the deep, often generational wounds that most systems ignore. Whether you're dealing with loss, estrangement, blended dynamics, or long-standing tension that keeps resurfacing, our team offers high-touch, emotionally safe care to help you rebuild relationships that last.

We are not generalists. We are family trauma specialists who work collaboratively to treat the relationship as the client—so you can stop treating the symptoms and start healing the system.

“There is no agony like bearing an untold story.” -Maya Angelou

Every family has pain—but not every family has the tools to work through it. That’s where we come in.

Whether you're facing the aftermath of addiction, grief, betrayal, disconnection, or simply feeling like you don't know how to talk without arguing—family counseling offers a new way forward. Some families come together for joint sessions. Others start with individual work and move into family therapy when trust and readiness build. However your family looks, however broken you may feel—we meet you there.

What Makes TTCTN's Family Counseling Different?

Most therapy focuses on one person. We treat the relationship itself as the client.

Our trauma-informed clinicians use systemic, attachment-based methods to identify what's not working and rewire the way your family relates. We don’t pathologize individuals. Instead, we look at the full picture—the communication patterns, invisible wounds, emotional inheritance, and unmet needs that keep families stuck.

This is not surface-level coaching or conflict resolution. This is deep relational healing with skilled therapists who know how to hold pain without judgment, and help you build new emotional blueprints as a unit.

Meet the Therapists Who Guide Family Healing

  • Azia Jackson- Families with Difficulty Parenting Children, Adolescents, and Teens, Families Navigating Separation and Divorce with Young Children

  • Shawn Hunt- Military Families, Parents Navigating Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Parents Struggling with Parent-Child Connection or other Parenting-Related Adjustments

  • Kate Kastle- Families Navigating Addiction and Reunification

  • Megan Shaefer- Family Systems Therapy, Parent/Child Attachment, and Relational Trauma

  • Makyla Burnam- Family Conflict, Intergenerational Dynamics, & Cycle-Breakers

We Help Families:

  • Rebuild trust after conflict, betrayal, or disconnection

  • Navigate grief, loss, addiction, and major transitions

  • Strengthen emotional attunement and communication

  • Establish healthy boundaries in blended or estranged families

  • Break generational cycles of trauma, criticism, or silence

  • Shift from survival mode to safe connection

  • Explore the patterns that hinder connection, making it confusing instead of compassionate and consistent.

  • Develop the needed skills for communication among all family members.

“What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of his or her irrational parenting.” Virginia Satir

Ready to explore whether family therapy is right for your situation? No pressure. No obligation. Just real help, from people who care.