FAMILY BRIDGE – Gentle Coaching for Families, Loved Ones & Individuals Before, During & After Treatment
Helping families, friends, and individuals move through rupture and repair, rebuild trust, and create deeper connection—together or on their own.
Find steadiness when treatment or crisis touches your life
Families are systems—but family can mean partners, relatives, close friends, or a trusted network you choose.
When one person is in pain, everyone feels it.
Maybe you’ve tried to smooth things over or keep the peace—but something deeper keeps repeating.
Tension builds, communication shuts down, and it can feel like you’re walking on eggshells.
Family Bridge is here for those turning-point moments: before a residential stay, after disclosure, or when betrayal, addiction, grief, or mental-health challenges have shaken the foundation.
What is Family Bridge Coaching
Family Bridge offers non-clinical, trauma-informed support for families, loved ones, and individuals navigating emotional rupture, secrecy, betrayal, addiction, mental-health struggles, or grief.
Unlike therapy, we don’t diagnose or treat—we help you work with what’s happening now and with the habits and dynamics you’d like to reshape as you move forward.
This work supports you in:
Supporting a struggling child or teen without losing yourself
Balance care for them with care for your own nervous system and well-being.
Making space for conversations that were never safe before
Learn how to open dialogue about hard topics with empathy and clarity.
Rebuilding trust and connection after a break
Develop rituals and agreements that help relationships mend and thrive.
Shifting patterns you swore you’d never repeat
Rewrite old family scripts with new, conscious choices.
Healing after betrayal, addiction, or emotional shutdown
Bring steadiness and compassionate understanding to painful chapters.
Preparing for, or reintegrating after, treatment or rehabilitation
Create clear plans and receive steady support before admission and during the critical homecoming phase—whether you’re returning to family, friends, or building a new support system of your own.
Parenting through secrecy, rupture, or high-conflict dynamics
Provide children and teens with safety, language, and co-regulation when trust has been shaken.
Family Bridge coaching helps you co-regulate, not control.
It creates space for honest reflection, nervous-system repair, and more conscious communication—meeting each participant or support network at their own pace.
Meet Your Family Bridge Coaches
JENNIFER ACKER · SARA LEBOW · JENNIFER ROSS
We’ve each lived and worked with complex family dynamics and have done the inner work to shift those patterns personally and professionally.
Together, we support families, loved ones, and individuals who are ready to move beyond survival and create steadier ways of relating.
As trauma-informed coaches and Certified RTT® practitioners, with additional depth in APSATS partner-trauma training, ICF-accredited coaching, and (for Jennifer Acker) licensed clinical social work, EMDR, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, we help clients navigate treatment transitions, relational ruptures, and recovery from betrayal or addiction.
Our approach is grounded, practical, and deeply attuned to nervous-system safety, emotional repair, and new family patterns.
Jennifer brings lived experience from both traditional and chosen family structures—including co-parenting in non-linear and LGBTQ+ families—offering insight that makes planning and communication more inclusive and realistic.
Sara draws on decades of family-systems expertise and coaching leadership, supporting parents, partners, and complex relational constellations.
Jennifer Acker integrates 35+ years of clinical and trauma-specialist practice, weaving advanced therapeutic training into coaching that is both precise and compassionate.
Families and support networks don’t need to be perfect.
They need space to feel seen, heard, and supported—and that’s what Family Bridge creates.
How Family Bridge Coaching Works
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Step 1: Discovery Call (20 minutes)
Talk about what you or your support network are navigating and what kind of help feels most useful—whether you’re preparing for treatment, processing a disclosure, or simply seeking steadier ground.
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Step 2: Family Bridge Intake (90 minutes)
A dedicated session to map patterns, communication styles, and relational dynamics—exploring both what’s happening now and what needs care next. Together we create a plan for pre- or post-treatment support, betrayal repair, or ongoing care, whether you’re working with family, close friends, or individually.
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Step 3: Ongoing Coaching (60 minutes)
Meet weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly—sometimes all together, sometimes in smaller configurations or one-to-one—to strengthen boundaries, build emotional safety, and practice new relational tools that help you bridge rupture into connection.