Family conflict therapist, online worldwide
The hardest conflicts aren't with strangers, they're with the people you can't simply walk away from. I'm Shagoon Maurya, a registered counsellor and psychotherapist (ACA Level 2, PACFA), and as a family conflict therapist I help you change your side of patterns that have run for decades.
Family conflict has a special gravity: decades of history, roles assigned in childhood, loyalty and guilt braided together, and stakes that make every argument feel existential. Parents and adult children, in-laws, siblings, blended families, the patterns differ, but the exhaustion is the same.
You usually can't drag the whole family to therapy, and you don't need to. Most of my family conflict work is with one person, or a couple caught between families, because when you stop playing your assigned role in the pattern, the pattern itself has to change.
What we work on
See the system
Map the roles, alliances and triggers, why the same dinner produces the same fight.
Boundaries that hold
Learn to set limits that are firm, respectful and survivable, without the guilt spiral after.
De-escalate on contact
Scripts and skills for the conversations that usually go sideways in minutes.
Closeness or distance, chosen
Decide deliberately what relationship is actually possible with each person, and grieve what isn't.
In-laws, parents and adult children
Marriage-and-in-laws tension, ageing-parent friction, adult children navigating controlling or critical parents, and couples caught between two families' expectations, this is daily territory in my practice, and it often overlaps with family trauma work when the conflict has old roots.
You can't rewrite your family. You can rewrite your part, and that changes more than you'd think.
Sessions are online and confidential, individually or as a couple. Start with a free 15-minute consultation.
Family conflict FAQs
No. Most of this work happens with one person or a couple. Changing your own responses reliably shifts the family pattern, and it's the only part you control anyway.
Yes, it's one of the most common issues I see, especially for couples navigating two families' expectations of marriage, money and children.
That's a serious, sometimes right, decision that deserves careful work first: clarity about what's possible, boundaries as an alternative, and support for whichever path you choose.
Yes, all sessions are over secure video, worldwide, which also makes joint sessions easier when family members live in different places.
Ready to change your part in the pattern?
Book a free, no-obligation 15-minute consultation with Shagoon.
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