kDC Family Konnections

Sometimes families love deeply but do not know how to respond. They may feel confused by mood shifts, trauma responses, emotional intensity, shutdown, avoidance, impulsivity, sensory needs, or relationship patterns that feel painful or hard to understand. In that confusion, families may unintentionally say or do things that increase distress, trigger shame, escalate conflict, or create more distance.

KDC Family Konnections was created to help families slow down, learn, reflect, and respond differently. This group offers a supportive space for families to better understand complex mental health and neurodivergent experiences while learning practical tools for communication, de-escalation, boundaries, repair, and relational support.

This is a space for families who want to love with more awareness, support without control, and create healthier connections with the people they care about.

kDC Family Konnections

Sometimes families love deeply but do not know how to respond. They may feel confused by mood shifts, trauma responses, emotional intensity, shutdown, avoidance, impulsivity, sensory needs, or relationship patterns that feel painful or hard to understand. In that confusion, families may unintentionally say or do things that increase distress, trigger shame, escalate conflict, or create more distance.
KDC Family Konnections was created to help families slow down, learn, reflect, and respond differently. This group offers a supportive space for families to better understand complex mental health and neurodivergent experiences while learning practical tools for communication, de-escalation, boundaries, repair, and relational support.
This is a space for families who want to love with more awareness, support without control, and create healthier connections with the people they care about.

What is KDC Family Konnections?

KDC Family Konnections is a psychoeducational support group for families, caregivers, partners, and loved ones supporting individuals with complex mental health, trauma-related, mood-related, personality-related, and neurodivergent experiences. This group is designed for families who want to better understand their loved one, reduce unintentional harm, respond more effectively during emotional distress, and build healthier patterns of communication, boundaries, and connection.
The goal of KDC Family Konnections is not to blame, diagnose, control, or “fix” a loved one. The goal is to help families learn how to respond with more understanding, de-escalate with more confidence, communicate with more care, and support their loved one while also maintaining their own emotional health and boundaries.

What is KDC Family Konnections?

KDC Family Konnections is a psychoeducational support group for families, caregivers, partners, and loved ones supporting individuals with complex mental health, trauma-related, mood-related, personality-related, and neurodivergent experiences. This group is designed for families who want to better understand their loved one, reduce unintentional harm, respond more effectively during emotional distress, and build healthier patterns of communication, boundaries, and connection.

The goal of KDC Family Konnections is not to blame, diagnose, control, or “fix” a loved one. The goal is to help families learn how to respond with more understanding, de-escalate with more confidence, communicate with more care, and support their loved one while also maintaining their own emotional health and boundaries.

The 8-week psychoeducational group curriculum is especially designed for families supporting loved ones with experiences related to:

  1. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, complex trauma, and trauma response

  2. Bipolar Disorder and mood instability

  3. Borderline Personality Disorder and intense relational/emotional distress

  4. ADHD and executive functioning differences

  5. Autism and neurodivergent communication/sensory needs

  6. Anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and stress-related disorders

  7. Personality disorder traits or relational patterns that are difficult to understand

  8. Co-occurring mental health, trauma, and neurodivergent needs


KDC Family Konnections is a psychoeducational and supportive group 8-week curriculum experience designed for family members, partners, caregivers, and loved ones of individuals living with complex mental health, trauma-related, mood-related, personality-related, and neurodivergent experiences.

This group supports families who want to better understand what their loved one may be experiencing, how symptoms can show up in relationships, how family responses can unintentionally escalate distress, and how to build healthier, safer, more supportive communication patterns.

Program Overview

Program Overview

KDC Family Konnections is a psychoeducational and supportive group 8-week curriculum experience designed for family members, partners, caregivers, and loved ones of individuals living with complex mental health, trauma-related, mood-related, personality-related, and neurodivergent experiences.

This group supports families who want to better understand what their loved one may be experiencing, how symptoms can show up in relationships, how family responses can unintentionally escalate distress, and how to build healthier, safer, more supportive communication patterns.


The 8-week psychoeducational group curriculum is especially designed for families supporting loved ones with experiences related to:

  1. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, complex trauma, and trauma response
  2. Bipolar Disorder and mood instability 
  3. Borderline Personality Disorder and intense relational/emotional distress
  4. ADHD and executive functioning differences
  5. Autism and neurodivergent communication/sensory needs
  6. Anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and stress-related disorders
  7. Personality disorder traits or relational patterns that are difficult to understand
  8. Co-occurring mental health, trauma, and neurodivergent needs

The intention is not to label, blame, pathologize, or “fix” loved ones. The purpose is to help families become more informed, regulated, compassionate, boundaried, and skillful in their responses.

The intention is not to label, blame, pathologize, or “fix” loved ones. The purpose is to help families become more informed, regulated, compassionate, boundaried, and skillful in their responses.

  • Winter/Spring Cohort — February–March (Black History Month)

  • Spring/Summer Cohort — May–June (Mental Health Awareness Month)

  • Fall Cohort — September–October (Suicide Prevention & Mental Illness Awareness)

Family Konnections is offered three times a year as an 8-week cohort,

timed around national mental health awareness observances:

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Our Mission

KDC Family Konnections exists to support families, caregivers, partners, and loved ones in better understanding complex mental health, trauma, mood, personality, and neurodivergent experiences. Through psychoeducation, reflection, communication skills, de-escalation tools, and relationship-centered support, this group helps families reduce harm, respond with greater awareness, strengthen relational safety, and build healthier patterns of connection.

Our Mission

Our Vision

KDC Family Konnections exists to support families, caregivers, partners, and loved ones in better understanding complex mental health, trauma, mood, personality, and neurodivergent experiences. Through psychoeducation, reflection, communication skills, de-escalation tools, and relationship-centered support, this group helps families reduce harm, respond with greater awareness, strengthen relational safety, and build healthier patterns of connection.

The purpose of KDC Family Konnections is to provide a supportive learning space for families who want to better understand complex emotional, behavioral, relational, trauma-based, and neurodivergent experiences. This group helps families learn how to respond rather than react, de-escalate rather than intensify, communicate rather than criticize, and support their loved one while also maintaining healthy boundaries and self-care.

KDC Family Konnections envisions families who move from fear, confusion, blame, and reactivity toward understanding, compassion, boundaries, accountability, and healthier relationship functioning. We envision family systems where loved ones are supported without being controlled, protected without being shamed, and understood without being reduced to a diagnosis.

Our Purpose

The purpose of KDC Family Konnections is to provide a supportive learning space for families who want to better understand complex emotional, behavioral, relational, trauma-based, and neurodivergent experiences. This group helps families learn how to respond rather than react, de-escalate rather than intensify, communicate rather than criticize, and support their loved one while also maintaining healthy boundaries and self-care.

KDC Family Konnections envisions families who move from fear, confusion, blame, and reactivity toward understanding, compassion, boundaries, accountability, and healthier relationship functioning. We envision family systems where loved ones are supported without being controlled, protected without being shamed, and understood without being reduced to a diagnosis.

This group is for:

  1. Parents of teens or adult children with complex mental health needs

  2. Adult children supporting parents with mental health challenges

  3. Partners or spouses of individuals with mood, trauma, personality, or neurodivergent experiences

  4. Siblings who want to better understand and support their loved one

  5. Caregivers navigating emotional dysregulation, conflict, shutdown, avoidance, impulsivity, or crisis patterns

  6. Families who feel like they are “walking on eggshells” and want healthier tools

  7. Families who want to reduce unintentional harm, invalidation, escalation, or relational rupture

  8. Families who want to learn how to support without enabling or controlling

  9. Loved ones who want to understand PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, BPD, ADHD, Autism, trauma responses, and emotional dysregulation in a more compassionate and practical way

Who this Group is For

Who this Group is For

This group is for:

  1. Parents of teens or adult children with complex mental health needs

  2. Adult children supporting parents with mental health challenges

  3. Partners or spouses of individuals with mood, trauma, personality, or neurodivergent experiences

  4. Siblings who want to better understand and support their loved one

  5. Caregivers navigating emotional dysregulation, conflict, shutdown, avoidance, impulsivity, or crisis patterns

  6. Families who feel like they are “walking on eggshells” and want healthier tools

  7. Families who want to reduce unintentional harm, invalidation, escalation, or relational rupture

  8. Families who want to learn how to support without enabling or controlling

  9. Loved ones who want to understand PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, BPD, ADHD, Autism, trauma responses, and emotional dysregulation in a more compassionate and practical way

Who This Group Is Not For

Who This Group Is Not For

This group is NOT designed for:

  1. Family members seeking to shame, blame, diagnose, control, or “fix” their loved one

  2. Individuals currently needing emergency crisis intervention

  3. Situations involving active violence, stalking, coercive control, or immediate safety threats

  4. Families needing court-ordered treatment, custody evaluations, forensic services, or legal documentation

  5. Individuals seeking therapy for their loved one without that person’s involvement or consent

  6. Family members who are unwilling to examine their own communication patterns, triggers, boundaries, and responses


This group is NOT designed for:

  1. Family members seeking to shame, blame, diagnose, control, or “fix” their loved one

  2. Individuals currently needing emergency crisis intervention

  3. Situations involving active violence, stalking, coercive control, or immediate safety threats

  4. Families needing court-ordered treatment, custody evaluations, forensic services, or legal documentation

  5. Individuals seeking therapy for their loved one without that person’s involvement or consent

  6. Family members who are unwilling to examine their own communication patterns, triggers, boundaries, and responses

This group is not about learning how to control a loved one. It is about learning how to understand, respond, communicate, set boundaries, reduce harm, and support healthier relationships.

This group is not about learning how to control a loved one. It is about learning how to understand, respond, communicate, set boundaries, reduce harm, and support healthier relationships.

Pricing

KDC Family Konnections is a complete 8-week curriculum. The full curriculum fee applies regardless of the payment schedule you choose. A discount is available for those who pay in full at enrollment.

Shared Household Participation

Paid in full at enrollment only

Up to 3 members from the same household may attend together at a reduced per-person rate.

Two Members $650 $325 per person Save $75 per person

Two Members         $650          $325 per person       Save $75 per person

Three Members $875 $292 per person Save $108 per person

Three Members         $875          $292 per person        Save $108 per person

Individual Enrollment

Pay in Full — $400
Paid at enrollment • Save $50 • Best value

Per Session — $450
$56.25 × 8 sessions • Full curriculum commitment required

A limited number of financial accommodations may be available to each cohort for families experiencing financial hardship. Please contact us directly to inquire about eligibility.

Program Details

  • Duration: 8 weekly sessions, 90 minutes each

  • Group size: Maximum 12 participants per cohort

  • Format: Clinician-led, with an in-session workbook and weekly take-home materials

  • Facilitator: Kaneisha S. Evans, MA, LCMHC, LCASA

  • Enrollment: Brief screening required before your first session


Payment methods: Stripe (accepts Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, Click to Pay, Cash App Pay, ACH Direct Debit, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover)

Program Details

  • Duration: 8 weekly sessions, 90 minutes each

  • Group size: Maximum 12 participants per cohort

  • Format: Clinician-led, with an in-session workbook and weekly take-home materials

  • Facilitator: Kaneisha S. Evans, MA, LCMHC, LCASA

  • Enrollment: Brief screening required before your first session


Payment methods: Stripe (accepts Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, Click to Pay, Cash App Pay, ACH Direct Debit, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover)

© Kaleidoscope Dream Center, PLLC  •  Kaneisha S. Evans, MA, LCMHC, LCASA  •  LCMHC #20209  •  LCASA #30196

© Kaleidoscope Dream Center, PLLC  •  Kaneisha S. Evans, MA, LCMHC, LCASA  •  LCMHC #20209  •  LCASA #30196