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means A licensed mental health professional trained to treat emotional and behavioral problems within the context of relationships, usually working with couples, parents, and children together rather than one patient alone.

from 'Family' traces back to Latin 'familia,' originally meaning a household including servants, not just blood relatives — a reminder that the unit being treated was always more about shared roof than shared genes. 'Therapist' comes from Greek 'therapeutes,' meaning 'one who attends to' or 'one who serves/heals,' from 'therapeuein,' to take care of. The specific field of family therapy is much newer than either word — it took shape in the mid-20th century as clinicians began treating the family as a single emotional system rather than treating an 'identified patient' in isolation.