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FAMILY SUPPORT

Family Therapy in Redondo Beach

At Catherine Alvarado, LMFT & Associates, we offer family therapy that supports healthier communication, stronger connections, and greater understanding among family members. Sessions provide a safe space to work through conflict, navigate transitions, and address challenges together. Our practice is based in Redondo Beach and serves families throughout the South Bay.

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BASED IN REDONDO BEACH, CA

Strengthening Communication and Connection

Family therapy provides a space where each member can feel heard, understood, and supported. It helps families navigate communication challenges, unresolved tension, or transitions that may be causing strain at home. Sessions are designed to strengthen understanding and compassion while encouraging more effective ways of relating to one another.

At Catherine Alvarado, LMFT & Associates, our therapists work collaboratively with families to identify patterns that may be contributing to conflict or disconnection. The process is grounded in empathy and curiosity, allowing each person’s voice to matter in building a stronger family dynamic.

Supporting Families Through Change and Growth

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Family therapy can help address communication breakdowns, emotional distance, and recurring conflicts. It’s also a supportive space during major life changes — such as divorce, blending families, loss, or adjusting to a child’s developmental or emotional needs.

By exploring challenges together in a guided and safe environment, families learn to communicate more openly, resolve differences with respect, and foster lasting connection. The goal isn’t perfection — it’s understanding, flexibility, and stronger relationships that support everyone’s growth.

STRONG FAMILIES ARE’T BUILT ON PERFECTION

Rather, they’re built on connection, understanding, and the willingness to grow together.

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How Therapy Can Support Your Family

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  • Improving family communication and reducing conflict

  • Strengthening parent–child relationships

  • Navigating life transitions (divorce, relocation, blended families)

  • Coping with grief, loss, or major changes together

  • Addressing stress, anxiety, or behavioral challenges within the family

  • Supporting families through trauma or past hurts

  • Building healthier boundaries and mutual respect

  • Creating more harmony in blended or multi-generational households

  • Somatic Therapy

    Focuses on how trauma and stress are held in the body, using awareness, movement, and grounding techniques to support nervous system regulation.

  • Attachment-Focused Therapy

    Explores early relationship dynamics and how they influence present-day patterns in trust, connection, and emotional safety.

  • Internal Family Systems & Parts Work

    A gentle method that explores and supports the inner “parts” of a person — including those carrying pain, fear, or protection — to restore balance and healing from within.

  • Standard EMDR Therapy

    Standard EMDR therapy is delivered in 45–50 minute sessions, giving space to process distressing experiences within the traditional therapy hour.

  • Intensive EMDR Therapy

    Two-hour EMDR intensive sessions offer additional space for structured reprocessing beyond the standard 50-minute format.

  • Adjunct EMDR Therapy

    Adjunct EMDR therapy offers the option of standard or intensive EMDR sessions, scheduled as needed alongside ongoing work with a primary therapist.

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

    A skills-based approach that helps build emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and healthier ways of relating to self and others.

  • Narrative Therapy

    A collaborative approach that helps separate people from their problems and rewrite the internal stories that shape identity, behavior, and self-worth.

  • Play & Art Therapy

    Creative, nonverbal approaches that support emotional expression, healing, and self-awareness—especially helpful for children or those who find it hard to put feelings into words.

  • Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)

    An approach that combines mindfulness practices with cognitive strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and increase present-moment awareness.

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Family Therapists in the South Bay Area

At Catherine Alvarado, LMFT & Associates, our therapists provide specialized family therapy designed to strengthen relationships and improve communication at home. We understand the complex challenges families face and offer a supportive, structured environment to explore difficulties, reduce conflict, and build stronger bonds. Our goal is to help each family member feel heard and understood while guiding the family system toward resilience and connection.

We integrate evidence-based approaches such as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), structural family therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness practices. These methods help families break unhelpful cycles, repair trust, and create new patterns that foster greater harmony and healthier dynamics across generations.

Family therapy is available in person at our Redondo Beach office and online throughout California, making support accessible to families across the South Bay—including Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Torrance, Palos Verdes, and El Segundo. Whether addressing long-standing conflict, navigating transitions, or seeking to strengthen family connections, our experienced family therapists provide guidance and tools to help your family move forward together.

  • Catherine Alvarado, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Redondo Beach, providing family therapy and EMDR.

    Catherine Alvarado, LMFT 134744

    OWNER & CLINICAL SUPERVISOR

    Catherine is a Licensed Therapist in Redondo Beach and an EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant in Training who specializes in anxiety, trauma, and EMDR therapy for teens and adults. Learn More

  • Emily Feldt Shabel, Associate Marriage and Family Therapist in Redondo Beach, offering family and couples therapy.

    Emily Feldt Shabel, AMFT 151325

    SUPERVISED BY CATHERINE ALVARADO, LMFT 134744

    Emily is a registered associate therapist in Redondo Beach, specializing in individual, couples, and family therapy for relationships, self-esteem, and creative professionals. Learn More

  • Monika Arana, Associate Marriage and Family Therapist in Redondo Beach, supporting families and individuals in therapy.

    Monika Arana, AMFT 140548

    SUPERVISED BY CATHERINE ALVARADO, LMFT 134744

    Monika is a registered associate therapist in Redondo Beach, specializing in individual, couples, and family therapy for trauma, inner child work, and nervous system regulation. Learn More

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