In my first family session, I let the most talkative member steer the session for 40 minutes, while the rest of the family observed. Nobody taught me that opening a family session follows a sequence, with specific signs and a clear moment to shift from rapport-building to therapy, so I didn’t giv...

In a first family session, you need to collect a lot of data—and some comes before you ask your first question. TLDR: This week, I'm breaking down the six structural concepts that let you read any family's architecture from the first session — subsystems, boundaries, hierarchy, triangulation, an...