The meetings bring together family members volunteer once or twice a month for a year on average (or longer if the therapy is based on psychoanalysis), about a therapist. This will then help to identify family patterns while avoiding favoring their reproduction.
Divorced parents are both obviously concerned, the good parent who lives with the child, half-brothers and sisters of a blended family can be invited.
If circumstances warrant, the grandparents may also be concerned.
There are different approaches to family therapy: psychoanalytic (verbalization of affects.) or systemic (work focuses on the system of interaction between family members.).
The sessions are often videotaped, with the consent of participants, which allows the therapist to review the meeting to propose ways forward.