The Launch & Legacy Experience · nine months
Every approach you've tried worked on your child while you waited outside.
A structured, IFS-informed practice that holds the parent and the emerging adult in the same work, at the same time, for nine months. Not therapy. Not another programme they attend alone while you wait for the summary.
For the parent
You’ve done everything right, and it’s still not working.
You love your child without condition. You have tried therapy, conversations that go nowhere, space, structure. None of it has moved anything. You are not failing as a parent. The approach built for most families was simply not designed for a young person like yours.
What changes things is not another intervention. It is a different conversation, one that finally holds both of you at the same time. This is not about fixing your child. It is about understanding something new together.
For the emerging adult
You are not failing. The path just doesn’t fit.
You already know the standard story does not work for you. You feel the pressure to have everything figured out, and you feel the distance between who you are supposed to be and what you actually want. You are not lost because something is wrong with you. You are lost because the map you were handed was drawn for someone else.
This is a different kind of work. It starts with seeing you clearly, not diagnosing you and not pressing you into a shape. You do not have to follow someone else’s map, and Celeste and Raphaela are here to help you draw your own.
What you've been living
Tutors. Tough love. Leniency. Therapy. A gap year.
Some of it helped for a while. None of it held.
Four things show up in almost every family that arrives here. You will recognise at least three.
They step away from the exact opportunities that should light them up. Read as apathy, it earns pressure. Read as protection, it starts to make sense.
When you have always been quick, effort itself becomes evidence. Not trying protects a self-image that has never been tested, and shrinks the life around it.
You ask carefully. They hear an assessment. A protective part answers before they do, and you both leave the room further apart than you came in.
Peers moving on becomes a clock. The clock becomes urgency. Urgency lands on a nervous system already braced, and everything slows down further.
None of this is a disorder to be eliminated.
It is a protective part doing its job, competently, in a system that was designed for a different kind of person. The struggle here is structural, not personal, which is also why working on one person at a time keeps coming apart.
Why this one is different
You cannot move one half of a relationship in a room the other half never enters.
Most approaches work on the emerging adult in isolation, or occasionally on the parent in isolation. That asks one person to change inside a system that hasn't. Here both people do their own inner work, separately, properly, at their own pace, and then bring it back into the same room, which is where the dynamic actually lives.
The program
What nine months actually looks like.
A structured practice, not an open-ended process. Three phases, one framework, parent and emerging adult moving in tandem.
Phase one
Foundation · safe ground & inner clarity
Establish the IFS language. Get clear on a vision that is genuinely yours. Build the safety that makes honest conversations possible, for both of you.
You can't create something real until you feel safe enough to dream it.
Phase two
Build · direction & momentum
Each person does their own inner work, then brings it back into the room, so what's found alone becomes shared ground. Hidden gifts surface, take shape as real direction, and get grounded in a concrete plan.
As the parent settles, the emerging adult feels free to step forward.
Phase three
Launch · out into the world
Clear the inner parts that resist being seen. Find your people. Take real steps with support and accountability still on, before flying solo. The family dynamic shifts from tension to collaboration.
An exit, with next steps, planned on purpose.
The founders
The program exists because it happened here first.
Raphaela had twenty years of clinical training and a daughter she could not reach through any of it. Celeste was capable, articulate, and completely stopped. Neither the therapy nor the good advice touched it, because all of it worked on one of them at a time. What they built to get out of that is the practice on this page, and they are still, visibly, on the other side of it.
Over two decades working with individuals, couples and families navigating complex relational dynamics. She brings the clinical depth that holds a family system safely while it moves, and she is the reason this can go as deep as it does without going anywhere unsafe.
Supports emerging adults to reconnect with their own clarity and direction. She has been the young person in this exact conversation, in this exact family, and she says so out loud, which is often the reason a reluctant twenty-two year old agrees to a second session.
in the practice
I came in able to see exactly what was happening and completely unable to stop it. My daughter was making choices I could see the end of and she couldn’t, and every conversation we had about it turned into the same fight.
What changed was not that she suddenly agreed with me. It was that we got curious about the parts of her that were making those choices, instead of arguing with them. And then, and this is the part I did not expect, I found my own parts. The ones working very hard to control something I could not control. Those got met with curiosity too.
We are still in it. But we are having new conversations now instead of repeating old fights, and I did not think that was available to us.
Dr. Raphaela Carrière imbues her work with vision, sensitivity and care, through a lens of compassion and generosity. Working alongside her has been both wonderful and enlightening, as I have witnessed her perceptive, considerate and engaging approach that consistently focuses on the individual and their experience.
She creates spaces where people feel genuinely seen and understood, and where thoughtful conversations can lead to deeper connection, clarity and new possibilities for the future.
Raphaela offers a warm and accepting relational space. She is thorough and thoughtful in her offerings and I love the depth of her work. I feel supported and have a sense that my uniqueness is welcomed. It is a wonderful feeling.
People frequently describe Celeste as wise beyond her years. Her presence naturally slows conversations down, allowing people to feel heard and reflect more deeply. Both younger and older adults comment on her ability to create a safe space with an open heart.
The parent account above is from a family currently partway through the practice, shared with permission and with names withheld. The remaining endorsements reflect Raphaela’s and Celeste’s wider IFS practice and training. The Launch & Legacy Experience is new. They are not, and we would rather say which is which.
An honest word about fit
This isn't right for everyone.
We would rather tell you now than take you into nine months that were never going to hold. Several families a year are told no, and we would rather say it before you pay than after.
This is for you if
- Your emerging adult is between 17 and 27, clearly capable, and visibly stuck
- You've tried several good approaches and none of them stayed
- You're willing to do your own work alongside theirs, not just arrange theirs
- You want to understand what's happening more than you want it fixed by Friday
- You can commit to a weekly rhythm for nine months
This isn't for you if
- You're looking for tips to motivate a teenager
- You want your emerging adult changed while you stay outside the work
- You need a result inside a few weeks
- There's an acute crisis that needs immediate clinical care. That comes first, and we'll say so
- Questioning conventional advice about launching isn't something you want to do
The investment
What it costs, said plainly.
No countdown. No disappearing bonus. A real number on a public page, and room to decide.
Founders rate · first cohort
paid in full, for the full nine months. One family, parent and emerging adult together
Or 3 payments of CHF 2,500, which is CHF 7,500 in total. Both cover the same practice, in full.
What's included
- 36 weekly guided sessions for parent and emerging adult
- Nine monthly peer groups, held separately for each of you
- The full workbook, phase by phase
- Recordings archive for everything you attend
- Community access alongside the other families in your cohort
- A planned exit with concrete next steps, by design
What it's worth comparing to
Because the honest comparison is not "nothing."
- Nine months of weekly individual therapy, for one of you
- A gap-year programme, for one of you
- A year of tuition for a course they've already told you isn't right
- Another year of the same conversation
Why it says founders rate.
This is the first cohort. Twelve families are going through a practice that has been built and tested privately but not yet run as a group, and their questions will shape how it runs from here. That is worth something, and this is what it is worth. The rate is for this cohort.
Twelve families per cohort. The free training on Friday 18 September is where most families decide, and where we answer questions in the room.
Real questions
The things people actually wonder.
Will my emerging adult actually want to participate?
Often not at first, and that's expected. Reluctance is usually a protective part anticipating another assessment. We don't require enthusiasm to begin. We begin with the parent, and the first weeks are designed to make participation feel like something other than being worked on. It also helps that Celeste was the reluctant one.
How is this different from therapy?
Therapy usually holds one person at a time and looks backward. This holds both, in parallel, inside a structured nine-month container with a defined beginning and end, and the focus is forward movement. It is IFS-informed and clinically led, but it is a practice, not treatment. It sits alongside therapy well and doesn't replace it.
We've already tried everything. What makes this different?
Most approaches work on the emerging adult while the parent waits outside. That asks one person to change inside a system that hasn't. Here both people do their own work and then bring it back into the same room, which is where the dynamic actually lives.
It is also more than a single method: coaching brought together with psychological depth, delivered by a mother and daughter with lived experience of exactly this. It never works with either of you in isolation.
What if my child has anxiety, depression, or a diagnosis?
Very common, and not a barrier. ADHD, autism and other forms of neurodivergence are very much part of who this work is for. IFS doesn't pathologise. It views actions and reactions as protective strategies rather than disorders to be eliminated.
What the work asks for is enough regulation to take part in a group process. If there is acute risk or a need for active clinical care, that comes first, and we'll say so plainly on the discovery call rather than take you in regardless.
How is privacy handled when people share personal stories?
Peer groups are held separately, parents with parents and emerging adults with emerging adults, so neither of you is performing for the other. Group agreements are set in week one. Live sessions are recorded and accessible only to your cohort; peer group recordings are never distributed.
You speak only on your own behalf, never for someone else, so you keep control of your own story. Because parents and emerging adults have intertwined stories, we help you navigate this in real time.
Is this remote or in person?
Remote, live, over secure video, with recordings for anything you miss. Families join from different countries and time zones; the weekly session time is set with the cohort. Occasional in-person intensives may be offered.
What if we start and it isn't right?
Tell us. We'd rather have an honest conversation in month one than carry a family who has quietly checked out. Our full terms are set out at checkout and we'll walk you through them on the call, before you commit to anything.
Begin here
Nine months from now, something could be different.
Not fixed. Not back on track. Understood, and moving at a pace that belongs to your family rather than to somebody else's map.