Sibling Therapy with Erica Billings

Sibling relationships can hold deep sources of connection and equally deep patterns of pain. Therapy offers a way forward.

Sibling work can be helpful if you are navigating sibling-specific problems:

• Patterns of rivalry, comparison, or resentment
• Feelings of betrayal or emotional distance
• Family caregiving or inheritance-related stress
• Shared experiences around grief, loss or trauma
• A desire to reconnect after years of estrangement
• Old wounds from childhood
• Longing for closeness but feeling blocked by history

Or, difficulties in your relationship with yourself and others:

• Major life changes or transitions
• Difficulty in how you express yourself, receive support, and handle conflict
• Challenges forming meaningful connections—feeling isolated, misunderstood, or that closeness is out of reach
• Decision-making, boundaries, self-worth, and personal fulfillment
• Emotional regulation with someone who triggers strong feelings

Even if what you’re going through has little to do with your sibling, doing therapy with your sibling means you are working with the living blueprint of how you relate. Patterns that first showed up in childhood—how you handle competition, care, boundaries, or being seen—often show up everywhere: in friendships, romantic partnerships, work, and parenting.

By exploring these dynamics in real time with your sibling present, therapy offers a powerful opportunity to change how you show up in every relationship that matters to you.

What will a session look like? Therapy that sticks.

We create a space where nothing inside of you is “too much” or “not enough.” My approach is to pay close attention to what unfolds between us—in the here and now. Instead of staying only in the past or discussing problems abstractly, we explore what happens in the room—the words, silences, tensions, and longings that emerge—because that’s where real change can take root.

You’ll have the chance to explore not only your thoughts and feelings, but also how those feelings arise in connection with another person—your sibling or even me. 

Therapy with me is not about quick fixes or surface solutions. It’s about deepening your capacity to feel, to understand, and to relate—so that change comes not only from insight but from lived emotional experience.