Expert Therapy For People Who Expect Results.
Expert counseling and therapists serving Oceanside, Carlsbad, Vista, Leucadia, La Costa, Encinitas, and San Diego County.
What Family Therapy Can Help You With
Family therapy helps you restore connection, improve communication, and navigate difficult transitions with strength and clarity. Whether you’re dealing with childhood anxiety, parenting struggles, or the aftermath of divorce, we create a space for healing and understanding.
Family therapy can help with:
You don’t have to keep struggling. Healing starts when families are supported, not judged.
Take the first step towards a healthier and happier life. Share your concerns with us and let's embark on a journey of growth and healing together. Schedule a free consultation today.
When to Consider Family Therapy
Family therapy supports emotional regulation, resilience, and connection. It’s helpful when children are acting out, withdrawing, or struggling in school—and it’s also for parents who feel overwhelmed, ineffective, or emotionally triggered by their child’s needs.
You may benefit from family therapy if:
Family therapy helps everyone feel heard—and teaches families how to work together, not against each other.
Client Success Stories
How Family Therapy Works at New Growth Counseling
Family therapy doesn’t always mean everyone sits in the same room at the same time. In fact, the most effective healing often happens when we focus on one relationship at a time—whether that’s parent to child, sibling to sibling, or partner to partner. Therapy is customized to your family’s unique situation and evolves as your needs change.
Here are the different ways family therapy may be structured, depending on your concerns:
Whatever the structure, the goal is the same: a stronger, more connected family system where everyone feels supported.
Why Families in Carlsbad Choose New Growth Counseling
We don’t just treat symptoms—we build healthier family systems. At New Growth Counseling, our therapists are trained in trauma-informed care, child and adolescent development, parenting dynamics, and evidence-based therapies that support growth across the entire family.
What makes us different:
Don’t wait any longer—embark on this journey with New Growth Counseling and rediscover the love and connection you both deserve.
What to Expect in Family Therapy at New Growth Counseling
Your therapist will meet your family where you are—sometimes that means starting with the child or teen, other times it begins with parents. We help everyone find their voice while also guiding families back to connection and shared goals.
Here’s what family therapy may include:
We help families work through their stuck points—and grow closer in the process.
Our Team
Our team is dedicated to providing you with the help you need with the results you desire. With a combined many decades of experience in counseling and therapy, our team aims to partner with you towards a better future.
Jussi Light
Licensed MFT
Bryson Greaves
Licensed MFT
Anne James
Associate MFT
Iliana Arick-Harvey
Licensed MFT
We Are Board, Licensed Therapists & Associates
Frequently Asked Questions
You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your mental health care may cost. Since we do not accept insurance, New Growth is required to provide an estimate of the expected charges for medical services, including psychotherapy services. You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency healthcare services, including psychotherapy services. You can ask your New Growth therapist for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule a service.
It is not possible for a psychotherapist to know, in advance, how many psychotherapy sessions may be necessary or appropriate for a given person, relationship issue, or diagnosis. Psychotherapy is talk-therapy and involves an ongoing conversation that involves the participation of one or more people for the sake of achieving a goal or goals. In relationship counseling (couples or parent-child), it is impossible for a therapist to know each person’s motivation to creating change—people in distress often feel uncertain about how they wish to proceed at times and their ambivalence affects the length of therapy. Since the therapist relies on people’s motivation and follow-through as necessary components to achieving treatment goals, the therapist cannot predict how long therapy will take. The same is true for individual counseling which often involves inner conflicts that pull a person in more than one direction at once. The therapist cannot make choices for an individual, and so relies on that individual’s free will to achieve an outcome—the therapist cannot predict how long that will take.
While the “No Surprises Act” requires a good faith estimate, the above discussion illustrates how difficult that is to provide. However, all of our therapists reveal their hourly fee before therapy begins. Your total cost of services will depend upon the number of psychotherapy sessions you attend, your individual circumstances, and the type and amount of services that are provided to you. This estimate is not a contract and does not obligate you to obtain any services from the provider(s), nor does it include any services rendered to you that are not identified here.
Good Faith Estimates are not intended to serve as a recommendation for treatment or a prediction that you may need to attend a specified number of psychotherapy visits. The number of visits that are appropriate in your case, and the estimated cost for those services, depends on your needs and what you agree to in consultation with your therapist. You are entitled to disagree with any recommendations made to you concerning your treatment and you may discontinue treatment at any time.
If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill. Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate. For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, please visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises.
Can I use my insurance?
You pay good money for your insurance, but will it cover counseling? New Growth is considered “out-of-network” by all insurance companies, so a lot will depend on whether your insurance will reimburse you when you go outside of their network of providers.