Therapy for the whole household: a teenager who has stopped talking, co-parents who cannot agree, a step-family working out its rules, adult siblings arguing about a parent’s care, or a court order that says family counseling.
Quick answer: Family therapy brings 2 or more family members together with a licensed clinician to change the patterns between them rather than treating 1 person. FC PsychExperts sees Jupiter families in person at 210 Jupiter Lakes Blvd, Unit 4-201, Jupiter, FL 33458, and by secure video anywhere in Florida. Sessions run 50 to 80 minutes. The practice was founded in Jupiter in 2008 by Dr. Cathy Colet, Psy.D., Florida license PY9058, and also handles reunification, co-parenting and court-referred family work. Open Monday to Saturday. Call (561) 870-0411.
Before you compare clinicians, work out which of 4 services you are actually looking for. They are not interchangeable, they are not all run by private practices, and calling the wrong one costs weeks.
You decided to come. Nobody ordered it. A private practice runs this, you choose the clinician, and the goals are yours.
This is us
Something already happened, and a hospital, a school or an emergency room was involved. The household is trying to re-form afterwards.
Ask any practice whether they will speak with the facility and with the school. Both need a signed release before a word is exchanged.
The pressure is coming from school. A 504 plan, an IEP meeting, a teacher asking for a letter.
That is consultation, and sometimes psychoeducational testing. Family therapy will not produce the document the school is asking for.
A judge used a word, and which word matters. Palm Beach County’s 15th Judicial Circuit runs several of these itself rather than sending you to a private office.
The table below sorts them.
| If the order says | Who runs it | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Supervised visitation, monitored exchange | The circuit’s Supervised Visitation Program | Court-administered contact in a monitored setting, with orientation before the first visit |
| Parenting coordination | A coordinator appointed from the circuit’s published list | A neutral who resolves parenting-plan disputes outside a hearing |
| Family mediation, dependency mediation | The circuit’s mediation services | A settlement process, not treatment |
| Family therapy, reunification therapy, counseling | A private licensed practice | Treatment, with documentation to the court as the order requires |
Only the last row is us. If your order sits in one of the first 3, call the circuit, not a therapist.
We will tell you that on the phone rather than booking you and discovering it in session 2. Program details and contacts are published by the 15th Judicial Circuit.
Family therapy is treatment where 2 or more family members meet with a licensed clinician together.
Instead of treating 1 person, it works on the patterns between people: how conflict starts, how it escalates, and how the household recovers. The approaches used here are structural, systemic and attachment-based, matched to the family rather than applied off a shelf.
Who attends depends on the goal. Some sessions include the whole household. Others are a parent and 1 child, or 2 co-parents with no children present. Your clinician plans that in the first session, and the mix changes as the work moves.
Sessions run 50 to 80 minutes.
Everyone. A diagnosis. A tidy account of whose fault it is. Most families who call open with a version of we probably should have done this a year ago.
Most family therapy copy assumes a house full of young children. Jupiter is not that town.
The US Census Bureau’s 2020-2024 American Community Survey puts 18.4% of Jupiter under 18, and 24.4% at 65 or over. More residents here are past retirement age than are children.
That changes what walks through the door. The Jupiter cases we see most are not toddlers and tantrums. They are a teenager and an aging parent in the same year. A second marriage with a time-sharing calendar. Adult siblings who cannot agree about what their mother needs. A household where the person in crisis is 70, not 7.
Caregiving decisions, inheritance conflict, old family roles resurfacing in a hospital corridor. Same method, no children in the room, and it is not a consolation prize.
Work with a teenager and work with an aging parent do not run on the same schedule or toward the same goals. Trying to do both inside 1 weekly hour is how families stall.
Getting 4 working adults into 1 room is harder than getting a young family there. Saturday hours and secure video exist because of this, not as a convenience feature.
Most families arrive braced for a blame session. It is not that.
What would need to be different for you to say this helped. Each person answers. Nobody is interrupted. The clinician is already watching how your family handles taking turns.
We map the loop. Who reacts to whom, what happens next, where it ends. Families are usually surprised the fight has a shape, and that the shape is the target.
A teenager or a co-parent may get a stretch alone. What gets shared back is agreed in advance, so nobody is ambushed.
Small, specific, doable by Sunday. Plus a plan for who attends the next session and how often you meet.
Families move through these at their own pace. Knowing the stages ahead of time is what keeps people from quitting in stage 2, which is where most of the work happens.
The clinician earns each member’s trust separately. No one feels like the identified problem.
The family’s patterns, history and strengths are mapped. Goals are written in the family’s own words.
Roles, boundaries and communication change in session, through real conversations rather than role play.
New patterns are practised at home. Sessions space out. Setbacks are expected and planned for.
The family can name what changed and what to do when the old pattern shows up again. The door stays open.
Jupiter sits in Florida’s 15th Judicial Circuit. Under Fla. Stat. 61.13, a parenting plan can carry requirements the court expects somebody to document.
FC PsychExperts has worked with Florida family courts since 2008 and takes referrals from family-law attorneys, guardians ad litem and the court directly, in the 15th, 17th, 19th, 20th and 1st circuits.
The clinician who treats your family does not write the opinion a judge reads about it.
Those are 2 different jobs with 2 different duties. A treating clinician works for the family. An evaluator works for the court. Collapsing them looks efficient right up until the day it is challenged, and then the whole file is in question. We separate them on purpose. Ask every practice you call whether they do the same, because the ones that do not will cheerfully offer you both from the same person.
Bring the parenting plan to the first call. Clinicians who do court-adjacent work ask for it before the first family hour, and not because a statute requires it. They ask because the other parent’s attorney will eventually ask them whether they read it. If your order names therapy rather than family work, start at court-ordered therapy.
Four situations where family therapy is the wrong first call. We say all 4 on the phone rather than after you have booked.
If someone is being hurt, treatment is not the first step and a weekly appointment is not a safety plan. Call 911. If the risk is to someone’s own life, call or text 988.
Sometimes the household pattern sits downstream of something in 1 member that needs individual treatment first. Family sessions built on top of that stall, and the family concludes therapy does not work. It was sequencing.
An evaluation is an evaluation. If what you need is a custody-related evaluation, a psychoeducational report or a letter for a 504 meeting, family therapy will not produce it, and a treating clinician should not be the one producing it about their own clients.
If one adult has already decided to leave, or to stop contact, family sessions cannot reverse that and should not be used to try. Individual therapy is the honest referral.
We decline referrals that belong in one of these 4 boxes rather than starting work we would have to unwind. In 2025, roughly 1 in 6 Jupiter family enquiries was redirected to a different service on the first call.
Families often book the wrong service first. This is how we sort it on the phone.
| Family therapy | Couples therapy | Individual therapy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who is in the room | 2 or more family members, mix can change | The 2 partners | 1 person |
| The client is | The family system | The relationship | The individual |
| Best when | A child or teenager is struggling, roles are unclear, a transition hit everyone | The issue lives between 2 adults | 1 person wants change regardless of what others do |
| Court referrals | Yes, including reunification, co-parenting and dependency cases | Rarely | Yes, court-ordered individual therapy |
| Typical length | 8-12 sessions, longer for reunification | 8-20 sessions | 6-12 sessions for focused goals |
| Session length | 50-80 minutes | 50-80 minutes | 50 minutes |
Not sure which column is you? Say so when you call and the office matches you to the right service and clinician. If couples therapy is the better starting point, we will tell you that instead of booking the wrong thing.
Ask any practice for the license number of the clinician you would actually see, then check it yourself on the Florida Department of Health license verification service. It takes under a minute and it is the only objective test a directory card cannot fake.
With over 20 years in practice, Jessica works with parents, teenagers and whole households on the emotional and behavioural patterns that keep a family stuck. Her family work centres on communication, regulation and repair: helping each member say what they need in a way the others can hear.
Works with: parents and teenagers · co-parents · blended families · adult families
Since founding the practice at this Jupiter address in 2008, Dr. Colet has built a family-law caseload that includes evaluations and expert testimony in Florida family courts. She oversees court-referred family cases and the documentation they require.
Works with: court-referred families · reunification · custody-related evaluation · treatment oversight
“I am truly grateful for what Dr. Colet has done for our family. Everything about her was above and beyond what I had experienced before with other psychologists. Matter of fact, doesn’t waste any time, and yet there is a sense of compassionate wisdom.”
“I have worked with Dr. Colet for several years. Dr. Colet places her clients first and provides each with individualized care, attention to detail, and real-world guidance. I do not hesitate to refer clients to her.”
“The staff took the time to explain each step, and the entire experience was both professional and supportive. It has been a crucial part of our treatment plan, and I’m very grateful for their help.”
The office is at 210 Jupiter Lakes Blvd, Unit 4-201, Jupiter, FL 33458, just off Indiantown Road and minutes from I-95 and the Florida Turnpike.
Families further south start at family therapy across Palm Beach County.
FC PsychExperts, 210 Jupiter Lakes Blvd, Unit 4-201, Jupiter, FL 33458. Off Indiantown Road, minutes from I-95 and the Florida Turnpike.
Family therapy is treatment where 2 or more family members meet with a licensed clinician together. Instead of treating 1 person, it works on the patterns between people: how conflict starts, how it escalates, and how the household recovers. Sessions here run 50 to 80 minutes and use structural, systemic and attachment-based approaches matched to the family.
Yes. 210 Jupiter Lakes Blvd, Unit 4-201, Jupiter, FL 33458, just off Indiantown Road and minutes from I-95 and the Florida Turnpike. This is the practice’s own office, not a service area. The practice has held a Jupiter address since 2008. Sessions also run by secure video anywhere in Florida.
It depends on the goal. Some sessions include everyone in the household; others are a parent and 1 child, or 2 co-parents without the children present. Your clinician plans this with you in the first session, and the mix can change over time.
No. Supervised visitation and monitored exchanges in Palm Beach County are run by the 15th Judicial Circuit’s own Supervised Visitation Program, and parenting coordination is handled by a coordinator appointed from the circuit’s published list. FC PsychExperts provides family, reunification and co-parenting therapy, and the documentation a court order requires. If your order names one of the court-run services, contact the circuit directly.
In Florida, within limits. Fla. Stat. 394.4784 lets a minor aged 13 or older request and consent to outpatient crisis intervention, including individual psychotherapy, group therapy and counseling. It excludes medication and other somatic methods, it caps services at 2 visits during any 1-week period before a parent must consent for treatment to continue, and no licensed mental health professional is obligated to offer it.
Start anyway. Family therapy can begin with whoever is willing, and bringing the missing member in is usually one of the early goals rather than a precondition.
Yes. Florida family courts order family, reunification or co-parenting therapy as part of a parenting plan or a dependency case. FC PsychExperts accepts court-referred families and provides attendance and progress documentation when the order requires it.
Yes. Reunification therapy rebuilds contact between a child and a parent after separation, estrangement or a court order. It runs in stages with clear criteria for moving to the next one, and the practice provides the documentation courts and attorneys request, within the limits of confidentiality your clinician explains at intake.
Yes. Adult family work covers caregiving decisions, sibling disagreement and old family roles resurfacing under pressure. Same method, no children in the room. In Jupiter this is one of the most common cases, because 24.4% of the town is 65 or older against 18.4% under 18.
Focused goals such as a specific conflict or a transition often improve in 8 to 12 sessions. Reunification and high-conflict co-parenting cases take longer and follow a structured, staged plan. Progress is reviewed with the family at set points.
Yes, with 2 notes. What each member says in a one-on-one portion is handled according to a confidentiality agreement set at intake, and court-ordered cases may require specific reports to the court. Your clinician explains exactly what is and is not shared before you begin.
First family sessions are usually available within the same week. Call (561) 870-0411 Monday to Friday 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM or Saturday 9 AM to 4 PM, or send the form on this page and the office calls back within 1 business day. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. If someone is in crisis or thinking about harming themselves, call or text 988.
A short call with our Jupiter office. We work out which of the 4 services you need, who should come to the first session, and if it feels right, book it. Nothing is decided until you say so.
Mon-Fri 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM · Sat 9 AM to 4 PM. A member of our Jupiter office calls you back within 1 business day.
Prefer to send it in writing? Use the contact page and the office replies within 1 business day.
If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911.