Marriage Counseling and Therapy for Couples

Do you recognize any of these common relationship problems? The qualities that once drew you to your partner now seem to drive you crazy. What once felt like passion now feels like a power struggle. One of you is asking for more intimacy and one of you is saying “back off!” You’re both so tired of not "getting" each other, you’ve withdrawn into separate corners   Your relationship can feel better. Call 212.465-3126 to schedule an appointment or email me.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Can Help You Restore the Bonds of Love

Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) is a research-validated method of working with couples that has a success rate of over 70%. EFT is effective in all types of couples regardless of their background because it focuses on universal needs of human love and connection. EFT helps with nearly all types of relationship difficulties because it goes beyond skills and techniques to focus on the underlying resourcefulness that all people possess when they feel secure and connected.

Understanding the Negative Cycle

Couples therapy helps each partner in a relationship identify their role in the negative cycle without blaming or judgment. Despair and frustration soften into hope and re-engagement. Feelings of safety, connection and passion can re-emerge.

Couples therapy begins by assessing the strengths that originally brought you both together, and then outlining negative cycles that get reinforced over time. While individually, each person in a relationship may feel mistreated or abandoned by their partner, what is hard to see is how each persons behavior, often well-intentioned, actually reinforces negative behavior. Couples Therapy helps both parties re-unite against the negative cycle and begin the process of healing from past injuries, and developing a plan for the relationship that increases connection, enhances passion, and achieves sustainability.

Couples therapy help with the following issues and more:

• Lack of Sex/Intimacy
• Recovering from an Affair
• Negative, blaming or criticizing behaviors
• Emotional shut down, withdrawal, distance
• Deciding whether to get married
• Navigating a Trial Separation
• LGBT Issues
• Marriage Counseling Survivors

Couples who complete the therapy process can expect:

• Increased passion and intimacy
• Enhanced sense of safety and security
• Resolving conflicts more quickly and with more sense of collaboration
• Fully understand and support each others' hopes, dreams and aspirations
  

What's the next step?

To schedule a free phone consultation, please call 212-465-3126, or visit my Contact page to send me an email.