Rowena Murray

Rowena Murray grew up in the greater Los Angeles area, studying and performing piano from the age of six, and began teaching her own students from the age of 13. This formative experience turned out to be the start of a lifelong passion and journey, working with children and families. She received a B.S. in Sociology and a minor in Philosophy from UC Santa Barbara in 2012, and is currently working toward her Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at La Salle University in Philadelphia.

From Your Therapist:

Hi, families! I am honored to bring my extensive background working with children and families to Renewed Hope Family Services. I believe emotions are at the heart of everything humans do; after all, emotion is our first language, one that is innate, and universal. However, we often find ourselves unable to understand or share our feelings with clarity, leaving room for uncertainty, confusion, assumption, and misinterpretation to change the course of our interactions and impact our sense of self. As a musician since childhood, I have spent my life studying the art of emotional expression. My previous role as a music educator offered decades of valuable experience nurturing emotional awareness and personal growth by guiding others to explore their own inner worlds in new and creative ways, and to learn to communicate feelings through the languages of music and movement. I find Family Therapy to be a similar–yet unique–creative and collaborative process, one in which we learn to explore our complex, multifaceted inner- and outer-selves alongside the people most important to us, utilize our innate shared language of emotion to communicate in new ways, and create necessary changes that stick!


My therapeutic goals are to help your family do the following:
-Identify and understand each others’ challenges
-Recognize your individual and shared strengths
-Honor your past experiences and histories
-Shed roles, narratives, and cycles you have outgrown
-Find new ways of relating to one another
-Increase the self-esteem and emotional and psychological wellness of each family member
-Strengthen your family bonds from the inside-out