Helping families navigate estrangement, conflict, and reconciliation.
Forty-five years helping families move through conflict toward resolution
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My new book is coming
Estrangement Reconciliation Therapy lays out a compassionate, structured approach to family cutoff — practical tools to process grief, move past blame, and open the door to healing.
“A new model for treating family conflict — rigorous, humane, and long overdue.”
When your adult child stops talking to you
Rules of Estrangement uncovers the five primary pathways to estrangement, and shows you exactly when to reach out and when to give space.
“One of the best books on estrangement named by researchers.”
Insight is only the beginning
Breakthrough provides practical exercises, strategies, and tools for healing from estrangement with dignity, strength, and resilience.
What do you need help with right now?
Start with the situation you're actually in. Each path leads to the webinars written for it.
Understanding what happened
Why adult children cut ties, and how to read your own situation clearly.
What should I say?
Amends letters, first contact, and language that doesn't make it worse.
Reconciliation
Rebuilding contact, setting terms, and holding a fragile reconnection.
When nothing is working
Living well amid ongoing estrangement, grief, and long silences.
Bring Dr. Coleman to your audience
Speaking on family estrangement, modern family relationships, reconciliation and the changing bonds between parents and adult children.
For therapists and mental health professionals
Estrangement Reconciliation Therapy — a clinical framework built from 45 years of practice, available as in-depth training with continuing education credit.
Family Troubles with Dr. Joshua Coleman is a free podcast exploring the intricate dynamics of family life — interviews with academics, therapists, and guests navigating their own family stories.
Family relationships are changing. Let’s understand why.
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