![Diane Davis, L.C.S.W.](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/diane-davis.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Diane Davis, L.C.S.W.
Licensed Psychotherapist
In 10010 - Nearby to Union City.
Relationship can bring great joy as well and great challenges. Many problems stem from difficulty communicating with your partner. I can assist you in finding the way to express yourself, as well as the capacity to listen; to find the appropriate boundaries that enable you to feel free while staying connected. Working through conflicts in relationships often not only preserves the relationship, but also empowers each individual to be more confident and open in their own life.
![Patricia Pitta, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/patricia-pitta.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Patricia Pitta, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.
Clinical and Board Certified Family Psychologist
In 11030 - Nearby to Union City.
Marriage or couple relationships are a tug of war for power and control. When the leverage of the couple becomes one sided: disappointment, fears, worries and anger become predominant emotions. At this point, you may think about leaving because you can't understand your conflicted feelings. Remember, " You can't run away from yourself". It is essential to know your contribution to the dysfunction in the relationship. When you can face your feelings and behaviors patterns and take responsibility for your actions leaving the "blame" behind, the couple begins the repair process enabling respectful listening and communicating leading to healing feelings and setting the stage for intimacy.
![Francesca Wehr, LCSW](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/francesca-wehr.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Francesca Wehr, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
In 07086 - Nearby to Union City.
In my approach to couples counseling, I integrate the Gottman Method, a research-based approach designed to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and deepen emotional connection. Using this method, I help couples identify destructive patterns and replace them with healthy, constructive interactions. By focusing on building trust, fostering intimacy, and enhancing problem-solving skills, I guide couples toward a stronger, more resilient partnership. Couples benefit from a deeper understanding of each other, improved conflict resolution, and a renewed sense of connection and commitment.
![Kevin Fleming, Ph.D.](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/kevin-fleming,-ph.d..jpg)
Couples Counselor
Kevin Fleming, Ph.D.
Coach/Change Agent/Consultant
In 10001 - Nearby to Union City.
What are the most common couples' issues? If you are thinking "communication, conflict, sex, money, child rearing" you are correct. However, most therapists will go after the symptom on each side of the couple fence thinking that the way to effective change is by getting each party to "work" on their respective "issue". Many times the parties don’t agree but comply. Imagine if you could align the unconscious brains of a couple and stop the "working on your issues" part that has become so popular in therapy settings? Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com to learn how! Or call 877-606-6161. DR. FLEMING'S NEW RELATIONSHIP/COUPLES INTENSIVES. www.kevinflemingphd.com/marriage-couples-retreats.php
![Lance Stern, LCSW, BCD](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/lance-stern.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Lance Stern, LCSW, BCD
Psychotherapist
In 07481 - Nearby to Union City.
People can grow apart for many reasons. Sometimes life has become complicated, and you’ve lost sight of each other’s needs. Sometimes there is a breach and a loss of trust and you are not sure how to repair it, or if you even want to. One thing is certain: if two people are willing to work on repairing a marriage that has lost its way, for whatever reason, their relationship already has a foundation to build on. With time and proper counseling, the marriage can often be repaired. I work with committed couples, whether married or not, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, to help both parties clarify what attracted them in the first place, what is not working anymore, and why. Then we work on active listening and clear, simple communication....(view profile to read more)
![Walter Matweychuk, Ph.D.](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/walter-matweychuk.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Walter Matweychuk, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist
In 10016 - Nearby to Union City.
Anger is not an aphrodisiac nor is it helpful in getting more of what you want. Couples in conflict often focus too much energy on changing their partner. The problem is that each partner does not have direct control over the other. The way out is of this dilemma is to learn how to not get so upset over what you dislike in your partner. I teach each partner how to improve their relationship by first modifying their own behavior. By having better control over your emotional and behavioral reactions you can more constructively communicate, negotiate and influence your partner. I teach you how to get your message across and positively influence your partner so that you can enjoy the results!
![Akeisha Rivera, Psy.D.](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/akeisha-rivera.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Akeisha Rivera, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
In 10017 - Nearby to Union City.
It can be so easy to fall into patterns and, over time, find that you keep having the same issues or arguments within your relationship or marriage. That's where couples counseling can help. Talking out issues and problems in a judgement-free space with a neutral third party invested in your progress and growth can help you and your relationship move forward. My goal as couples therapist is to listen to you and give you the tools and techniques to help get your relationship back on track. When you're ready to stop having the same conversations and to move forward in your relationship or marriage, let's talk.
![Samira Hafiz, MSN, PMHNP-BC](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/samira-hafiz.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Samira Hafiz, MSN, PMHNP-BC
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
In 10007 - Nearby to Union City.
Relationships require effort, and I help couples navigate challenges with clarity and mutual understanding. Whether addressing communication breakdowns, trust issues, or emotional disconnect, I provide tools to strengthen your bond and resolve conflicts effectively. My approach encourages open dialogue, helping partners reconnect, set healthy boundaries, and build emotional intimacy. Couples therapy offers a path toward greater relationship satisfaction by fostering deeper connection, respect, and collaboration in problem-solving.
![Jenna Purcell, MSc, CCC](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/jenna-purcell.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Jenna Purcell, MSc, CCC
Social Confidence Life Coach
In 10012 - Nearby to Union City.
Do you or your partner suffer from social anxiety and it's affecting your relationship? Social anxiety is a fear of negative judgment from others and it can lead to reduced levels of intimacy, suppressed emotions, feelings of isolation and loneliness and lack of communication. If one or both of you feels anxious socially, your relationship may be suffering too. Contact me for ways in which you can move past social anxiety to a fuller, intimate, richer, relaxed more authentic relationship.
![Wendi Dumbroff, MA, LPC](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/wendi-dumbroff.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Wendi Dumbroff, MA, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
In 07936 - Nearby to Union City.
I work with many couples in my practice. I illustrate the negative cycles they get into, which is very important in calming volatile interactions, and understanding how each person triggers the other, which keeps their negative cycles in motion. We explore family histories and the messages, and coping skills they learned. I help couples to understand the emotions under their anger and frustration, and to begin to speak to their partner from this softer place. It is a process which can shift negative patterns, and create closeness. Whether there has been an affair, communication issues, a breach of trust, sexual intimacy issues, or something else, there can be a path back to each other.
![Michael Mruz, LCSW, ACSW, MSW](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/michael-mruz.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Michael Mruz, LCSW, ACSW, MSW
Michael G Mruz, Psychotherapist
In 10583 - Nearby to Union City.
Couples sometimes find that their relationships – once the source of so much intimacy and joy – have become disappointing, even destructive. We all reach impasses in our relationships, and these can be opportunities to overcome obstacles and grow together or to recognize irreconcilable differences and end the relationship in a healthy way. Together in therapy we can work to help you shift from criticizing and blaming to discovering individual feelings that underlie the surface conflicts. It can have a liberating and transformative effect on both you relationship and yourselves.
![Kevin Fleming, Ph.D.](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/kevin-fleming.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Kevin Fleming, Ph.D.
Coach/Change Agent/Consultant
In 10012 - Nearby to Union City.
What are the most common couples' issues? If you are thinking "communication, conflict, sex, money, child rearing" you are correct. However, most therapists will go after the symptom on each side of the couple fence thinking that the way to effective change is by getting each party to "work" on their respective "issue". Many times the parties dont agree but comply. Imagine if you could align the unconscious brains of a couple and stop the "working on your issues" part that has become so popular in therapy settings? Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com to learn how! Or call 877-606-6161 DR. FLEMING'S NEW RELATIONSHIP/COUPLES INTENSIVES www.kevinflemingphd.com/marriage-couples-retreats.php
![Audrey Augustave, LMHC, LPC, LCADC](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/audrey-augustave.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Audrey Augustave, LMHC, LPC, LCADC
Licensed Professional Counselor/ Licensed Clinical Alcohol & Drug Counselor
In 07306 - Nearby to Union City.
Audrey believes strongly that good couple's therapy does not aim to fix the relationship, but rather uses the relationship as a opportunity to develop individual insight and personal growth for both members of the relationship. Through this insight, you will develop behavioral changes that help to optimize your joint relationship experience. I use communication exercises, insight through inherited family wounds, and light challenging techniques to help couples work better together.
![David Mark, MS, LCSW](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/david-mark.jpg)
Couples Counselor
David Mark, MS, LCSW
School Psychologist, Licensed Social Worker, Certified Gottman Therapist
In 11434 - Nearby to Union City.
Combining the knowledge and wisdom of forty years of studies and clinical practice, Gottman Method Couples Therapy helps couples break through barriers to achieve greater understanding, connection and intimacy in their relationships. Through research-based interventions and exercises, it is a structured, goal-oriented, scientifically-based therapy. Intervention strategies are based upon empirical data from Dr. Gottman’s study of more than 4,000 couples. This research shows what actually works to help couples achieve a long-term healthy relationship. Gottman Method Couples Therapy was developed out of this research to help partners: Increase: respect, affection, closeness, & break through.
![Jessica Parlor, PhD](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/jessica-parlor.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Jessica Parlor, PhD
Licensed Psychologist
In 10016 - Nearby to Union City.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples focuses on strengthening the emotional bond between partners. Through structured sessions, we explore underlying patterns and attachment needs driving relationship dynamics. Using interventions aimed at fostering empathy and understanding, we facilitate open communication and emotional expression. Couples learn to recognize and address negative interaction cycles, replacing them with healthier patterns of connection and responsiveness. EFT emphasizes creating a secure attachment bond, fostering feelings of safety and trust within the relationship. By deepening emotional intimacy and building a stronger connection, couples experience wellness.
![Edgard Danielsen, PhD, LP](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/edgard-danielsen.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Edgard Danielsen, PhD, LP
Licensed Psychoanalyst
In 10001 - Nearby to Union City.
Sometimes members of a couple get stuck in their old relational patterns, the ways they have always related to others. As years pass by, and romance or sexual experiences diminish or other life events happen, the old patterns become more evident leading to gaps in communication, dissatisfaction, and lack of excitement. As a therapist, I will help you to communicate more effectively with your partner, in ways that acknowledge your personal needs and the needs of the other. I will help you find balance between conflicting needs: the needs of the individual and the needs of a couple. I work with straight couples and GLBT couples.
![Minimah Rush, LSW](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/minimah-rush.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Minimah Rush, LSW
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LSW
In 07003 - Nearby to Union City.
I love working with couples and especially high conflict couples. I draw on the Gottman Method, an evidence-based couples therapy that starts with a detailed relationship checkup and great communication tools that will transform how you talk and listen to each other. Couples come to me for everything from dating challenges, premarital counseling, and marital check-ups to serious conflict, infidelity, ambivalence about staying together, and even recovering from emotional or physical abuse. I am trained to help you strengthen your relationship.
![Joel Stukalin, PHD, ABPP, FAACP, MS](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/joel-stukalin.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Joel Stukalin, PHD, ABPP, FAACP, MS
QUEENS COUPLES COUNSELING CENTER
In 11375 - Nearby to Union City.
Dr. Joel Stukalin and Dr. Sara Mandelbaum are particularly sensitive to the needs of unmarried couples, such as conflicts regarding trust, fidelity, emotional-bonding, finances, future-planning, resistance to committment. We have specialized in couples work for 40 years and have been highly praised by clients as attuned psychologists who truly understand the problems and frustrations of couples living together. As child psychologists, we additionally help couples negotiate important issues with child-care concerns. Dr. Joel and Dr. Sara offer realistic models to improve empathic-communication and problem-resolution with minimum disruption. Meaningful change can start within 4 sessions.
![Philip Kolba, MA LCPC NCC](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/philip-kolba.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Philip Kolba, MA LCPC NCC
Psychotherapist
In 10013 - Nearby to Union City.
There are countless models of healthy romantic relationships, from monogamous to polyamorous, and unique variations between partners. The scripts for dating and longterm relationships of our parents’ generations may not be applicable to your relationship, and there is no formal education in how to be a good partner or how to identify unhealthy relationships. But there is psychological research that shows that effective communication, emotional openness, intimacy, and other factors contribute to healthy relationships. Creating these conditions are skills that can be learned. I practice brief humanistic and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) to help my LGBTQ and hetero clients learn these skills.
![Joanne Gerr, LCSW](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/joanne-gerr.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Joanne Gerr, LCSW
Licensed Psychotherapist and Adult Educator
In 10017 - Nearby to Union City.
I use my vast experience to help couples in their early 20s to late 70s, of all genders and sexual orientations to understand each other and communicate effectively. Whether the conflicts are emotional, sexual, or financial, I am there for you to help you navigate the waters, leading to a satisfying relationship. Couples counseling and premarital counseling can empower you to bring more joy into your life and can help prevent the heartache and the tremendous cost of divorce.
![Marty Tashman, Ph.D.(psychology), ACSW, M.S.W.](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/marty-tashman.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Marty Tashman, Ph.D.(psychology), ACSW, M.S.W.
Dr. Marty
In 07043 - Nearby to Union City.
www,YourMarriageCounselor.com Saving Your Relationship and Making It Work. Imagine how your relationship was in the beginning. I will help you build on those feelings, so that you can find the love that you have lost. I work with traditional and non traditional couples who are: dating, in long term relationships, living together, engaged, newly weds or couples who have been married for years. Some people say to me "Are you in favor of saving relationships?" My answer to them is: “Yes, as long as it is not physically and emotionally destructive to either of you.” Relationships are one of the most important things in our lives and it's not always easy go to: YourMarriageCounselor.com.
![Joseph Tropper, PsyD, MS, LCPC](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/joseph-tropper.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Joseph Tropper, PsyD, MS, LCPC
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
In 11201 - Nearby to Union City.
Are you struggling to get along with someone whom you thought you loved? Are you seeking to fortify your relationship and cut get rid of all those doubts and mistrust issues which are permeating your relationship. Couples counseling can help you and your significant other learn ways to openly talk about the areas of strength and weakness in your relationship. You owe it to yourself to explore.
![Hal Brickman, LCSW, RCSW, CSW, MSW, CHT](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/hal-brickman.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Hal Brickman, LCSW, RCSW, CSW, MSW, CHT
New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker
In 11375 - Nearby to Union City.
It wasn't always this way. There was a time you looked forward to being with each other. You both trusted and enjoyed each other's company. You felt understood and accepted for being yourself. In couple's counseling, Hal offers you the opportunity to find the hidden strengths in the heart and soul of your relationship. Hal has helped hundreds of couples to improve communication and increase trust. Hal is very well respected and experienced in couple's counseling. In addition, he is a published author and was invited to appear on David Letterman's Late Night television program. Hal's schedule is flexible and appointments are available on evenings and weekends. Call Hal at (516) 439-4282
![Heidi Seifert, LCSW-R, MA](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/heidi-seifert.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Heidi Seifert, LCSW-R, MA
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
In 10003 - Nearby to Union City.
The first step is to do a free couple’s assessment. In this session we’ll get clear on what has been difficult for both of you and how have you have been feeling. We will look at what the most important things that you have not been getting from your relationship. Then we will determine what makes a relationship for you and what would potentially break up a relationship. In closing we will go over what does work about the relationship and I will teach you a method that will help a woman learn to speak to men and for men to know how to speak to a woman.
![Priska Imberti, LCSW](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/priska-imberti.jpg)
Couples Counselor
Priska Imberti, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
In 11377 - Nearby to Union City.
It can take us a lifetime to learn to accept the person we have chosen to live with, but it could also take us the same time to try to change that person and not be successful. Couples Therapy can help us understand that even though we all have the potential to change, we cannot change the other. We can learn how to accept the other person, live together or decide not to, and explore what are our own contributions to the dilemmas that we present.