How We Serve Family Businesses with Mental Health Problems
For members of a family-owned business, we can provide a neutral, clinically informed environment to navigate the intersection of mental health and business operations.
Here are four specific ways we can help:
1. Triangulating the "Three-Circle" Model
Separating roles: we’ll help you distinguish between family, ownership, and corporate management boundaries.
Neutralizing triggers: We’ll identify how childhood dynamics blend into your business and how the dysfunction in your family relations is likely appearing in your family business.
Objective mediation: We will be a safe third party for highly charged discussions.
2. De-escalating Codependency and Enmeshment
Creating boundaries: We’ll help you establish rules to stop business stress from ruining family dinners.
Building independence: We’ll coach over-involved parents to let adult children manage their own divisions.
Enforcing accountability: We’ll help implement objective performance metrics to replace emotional favoritism.
3. Supporting Clinical Conditions in the Workplace
Mitigating burnout: We’ll help you identify systemic family pressures driving chronic stress and exhaustion.
Crisis planning: If you ask, we’ll help you draft protocols for handling active mental health crises without halting business operations. (This service is considered a coaching service.)
4. Reshaping Communication and Conflict Styles
Replacing passive-aggression: You will learn how to communicate with love and honesty. You’ll also learn how to allow separateness in your relationships.
Translating intent: We’ll reframe emotional outbursts into terms of how to be consistently and lovingly honest.
To learn more, reach out to Bill English at 763-458-3722 or bill@onpathcounseling.com
