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Family Business Therapy Insights

Videos

Watch us discuss the intersection of family business psychotherapy with family business advisory.

How Business Families Can Overcome the Tyranny of Fame

How to Overcome Multi-Role Conflict in Business Families

Articles

Psychotherapy-based insights on family business conflict, succession, trauma, and relational patterns. Written by Tom Skotidas.

Family Business Conflict: Why It Keeps Coming Back

Family business conflict keeps returning because of these 3 core reasons.

Why Family Business Succession Plans Fail

Family business succession plans fail not because the governance is flawed—but because of the emotional reasons beneath it.

What Family Business Therapy Actually Is—and What It Isn't

What actually happens in a family business psychotherapy session.

Family Business Dynamics: What the Term Actually Means—and What It Misses

"Family business dynamics" is one of the least understood terms in the field. Here's what it actually refers to.

Family Business Therapy: From Founder Pairs to Dynasties

How family business therapy interventions adapt as family size grows, from founder pairs to dynasties.

Mother and Daughter Conflict in Family Business: Why It Runs Deep

Why mother-daughter conflict in family business is clinically distinct from every other pairing.

Father and Son Conflict in Family Business: How to Resolve It

Father and son conflict in a family business is a collision between the loss of one's identity and the other's fight to build theirs.

Sibling Rivalry in Family Business: When Brothers and Sisters Become Rivals

Sibling rivalry in a family business is not a personality clash. It is the result of a childhood system.

Scapegoating in Family Business: When One Person Carries What the Whole Family Won't Face

How scapegoating operates in family business.

How Business Families Know It’s Time for a Family Business Psychotherapist

Four recurring signals that indicate when family business psychotherapy becomes necessary.

Trauma in Family Business: The Emotional Inheritance

Trauma in family business isn't a single event. It's a thousand emotional scratches from childhood, carried into the boardroom.

Relational Patterns in Family Business: Why They Form and How to Change Them

When our behavioural patterns become blindspots, they feel like identity, not behaviour.

Taking Over the Family Business After Loss: When There Was No Handover

When a family business founder dies or is incapacitated, the successor inherits the role overnight—often with little preparation.

Taking Over the Family Business: When the Title Transfers

Taking over the family business means stepping into a role shaped by someone else's identity.

When Your Spouse Is Your Co-Owner: Conflict in the Family Business

When a husband and wife co-own a family business, these three systems collide.

Meaning-Making: The Psychology Behind Family Business Blow-Ups

When family business conversations explode, people are not responding to what was said. They are responding to what it means.

Multi-Role Conflict in Family Business: When Roles Collapse Into Each Other

When your family member is also CEO and majority owner, your nervous system can struggle to separate the roles.

Triangulation in Family Business: When Direct Communication Feels Too Dangerous

Triangulation in family business is a pattern, and it occurs when direct communication feels unsafe.

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