online couples Therapy in California & NEW YORK

Convenient and Flexible Online Couples Therapy

Couples therapy offers a transformative approach for partners seeking to improve their relationship.

Couples often seek therapy when they experience recurring conflicts, emotional disconnection, and communication breakdowns that lead to feelings of loneliness and frustration.

Struggles such as infidelity, loss of trust, intimacy issues, and unresolved past traumas can create significant distress in a relationship.

Couples therapy aims to help partners understand and break negative interaction patterns, fostering a safe space for expressing vulnerabilities and rebuilding emotional bonds. By addressing these core issues, couples therapy guides partners towards a more secure, loving, and resilient connection.

Couples therapy can help you and your partner foster deep emotional connections and express your needs and vulnerabilities safely.

By addressing issues together, you and your partner can:

develop healthier communication patterns
resolve conflicts more effectively
rebuild trust and intimacy
strengthen your relationship
feel heard, valued, and supported
transform a struggling relationship into a secure, loving partnership, better equipped to navigate future challenges together

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Our Approach

When working with couples, we utilize the approach of Dr. Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to promote emotional safety in every interaction. Combined with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Discernment Therapy, this approach helps us explore trauma while enhancing safety within the relationship.

Couples Therapy

We are dedicated to helping couples in understanding and resolving conflicts to enhance their relationships through Couples Therapy.

This impactful and dynamic approach helps both partners identify and manage recurring behavioral patterns, improving their communication, problem-solving capabilities, and ability to negotiate differences effectively.

Couples Therapy can enhance your communication, deepen understanding of each other’s perspectives, and foster greater empathy. It also improves problem-solving skills and helps identify the underlying causes of conflicts, enabling you to handle disagreements constructively.

For new relationships, couples therapy provides an opportunity to set healthy patterns and establish open communication from the start. For romantic couples considering marriage, it serves as a valuable platform for premarital counseling, where partners can discuss their values and shared goals. For those in long-term committed relationships or marriages, couples therapy offers strategies and insights that foster healthier, more fulfilling partnerships.

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EMDR for Couples

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EMDR for couples provides a unique approach to resolving interpersonal conflicts and deep-seated issues within relationships.

In couples therapy, EMDR enhances emotional intimacy, reduces reactivity to triggers, and improves communication. It allows partners to process unresolved emotions that obstruct intimacy and tackle specific relationship challenges such as jealousy or grief. This therapy also facilitates a better understanding of each other's perspectives, helps build a unified narrative, and promotes forgiveness for past hurts.

By addressing both individual and shared psychological issues through bilateral stimulation, EMDR serves as a comprehensive tool for couples striving to strengthen their relationships and effectively resolve conflicts. Couples can break free from old patterns and emotional blocks, fostering a deeper connection and healthier, more resilient partnerships.

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Discernment Therapy

Discernment therapy is a specialized form of therapy designed for couples who are uncertain about the future of their relationship and are considering options such as staying together, separating, or pursuing a divorce.

Unlike traditional couples therapy that aims to resolve relationship issues and improve communication to keep couples together, discernment therapy focuses on helping partners gain clarity and confidence about the direction of their relationship based on a deeper understanding of their relationship dynamics, individual needs, and potential paths forward.

This type of therapy is particularly helpful for couples where one partner is leaning towards ending the relationship while the other hopes to preserve it. The process involves a short-term commitment where the therapist helps each partner consider their options and decide whether they want to commit to resolving their relationship issues through therapy, move towards separation, or take a time-out to decide on the next steps. The goal is to help couples make a decision that feels right for both partners, based on a thorough understanding of their relationship and each other’s needs.

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