Couples Counseling Ridgewood NJ. Couples Counseling Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Welcome to our network of couples counseling and realtionship therapists in Ridgewood NJ. Couples therapy and couples counseling Ridgewood, NJ with a licensed and experienced therapist will strenghten your relationship and help resolve the issues that are causing you to struggle. Our New Jersey psychotherapists are trained in understanding the complex dynamics of relationships that couples face- how they fail, and how they thrive. Choose a Ridgewood NJ couples counselor below and start your new journey towards a healthier relationship.
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Jean Fitzpatrick, L.P.
Relationship problems? Learn how to turn conflicts into lasting love. Experienced, caring counseling for couples. I work actively in the session to listen to each partner and to teach more effective communication, based on the most authoritative research. Recovering from an infidelity? New parents wanting to find each other again? Tired of bickering? Marital, premarital, straight, gay. To ask questions about couples counseling or to make an appointment, email or call me and I will respond within 24 hours.
Nikki DiFranks, PhD, MA, MS, LCSW-R
Although some clinicians may treat unmarried/married couples differently, I do not. This is because I do not take a position, often assumed with pastoral counseling, that a couple ought stay together. My aim is to assess what the couple and family system desires, and where there is disparity, to facilitate a solution that is viable for all. Often, I work to help a confused couple decide whether they wish to stay together, and if they do not, I can help them decide how to separate, as well as help other family members make this transition. Many times, couples/family therapy is about improving the relationships without intentions separation. Assessment of needs is critical to my approach.
Lee Crespi, LCSW
Licensed Psychotherapist and Couples Counselor
Email: Contact Lee
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Email: Contact Lee
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
I work with straight, gay, married and unmarried couples in therapy. My approach to couples therapy encompasses a number of things:
Providing a safe space in which to explore and share difficult feelings with each other
Facilitating better communication by enhancing listening and expressive skills
Exploring individual and family histories to better understand the nature of the couple's dynamics
Identifying current stressors and triggers and working to resolve impasses.
In my work with couples I integrate a psychodynamic understanding with elements of Imago Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Collaborative Couples Therapy.
Colette Dowling, LCSW
Having different attach styles is a major contributor to strife in a couple's relationship. Someone with an "anxious" style of attachment will pester constantly for reassurance. Someone with an "avoidant" style of attachment will pull back further and further, the more the anxious one pesters. This drives the anxious one crazy, and on and on the destructive cycle goes. The sad paradox is that both individuals want to feel secure in an intimate relationship, but both fear intimacy. Each simply has a different style of defense against getting too close. An attachment therapist can assess the couples' attachment styles and help them see what they're doing to push the other away.
Priska Imberti, LCSW
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.
Walter Simmons, LCSW, M.S. Ed.
Licensed clinical social worker, marriage/family counselor
Email: Contact Walter
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Email: Contact Walter
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Many of the challenges faced by couples--married or not--involve an attempt to balance the desire for personal intimacy with the need for a sense of personal autonomy, although this is not necessarily obvious initially. I work with couples to help them achieve such a balance, while helping them develop a sensitivity to each other's needs. I also attempt to generate solutions that are experienced as fair and just by both parties, while maintaining my own impartiality. An especially valuable aspect of couples counseling for some involves evaluating whether the couple is a likely prospect for a marital relationship.
Marge Blaine, Ph.D., LP
Relationship counseling helps couples resolve differences, improve communication and increase intimacy to maximize their relationship and overall happiness. This includes marital and premarital counseling, maintaining long-distance relationships, LGB issues, and co-dependency. Through counseling, couples can be supported in exploring emotions and overcoming barriers to communication. This can result both in self knowledge and more positive relationships .
Michael Bednarski, PhD
Every couple is different and each member of every couple has unique qualities that they bring to their relationship. Many differences are natural and based upon each individual's preferred way of seeing things, making decisions, etc. Oftentimes these differences lead to conflict. When addressed in treatment, couples learn to use such differences to their benefit. For more serious problems i work with couples to get back to the loving basis of the relationship with understanding and proven strategies for navigating difficult circumstances or abruptions in their relationship.
Jim Covington, M.Div., M.A., L.M.F.T
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, psychotherapist
Email: Contact Jim
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Email: Contact Jim
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
I work with all couples--married, engaged, co-habitating, heterosexual and same-sex--who need guidance on how to resolve conflicts, understand and accept their differences, communicate better, determine their common goals and how to become more emotionally connected. I teach couples how to have a successful, intimate relationship. I help couples understand the emotional underpinnings of their relationship, how to be more responsive to each other, and if interested, what may be holding them back from a more committed relationship.
Beverly Amsel, Ph.D.
Psychotherapist/Counselor/Psychoanalyst
Email: Contact Beverly
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Email: Contact Beverly
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Couples come to therapy for many different reasons. Some couples begin therapy when they are having difficulties in their relationship. This may be prior to commitment, marriage, or at any time in the life of the couple. I work with gay and straight couples. Frequently, problems related to raising or having children, money and/or sex cause couples to seek treatment. For many couples, one or both partners may be unhappy with the relationship. He/she may feel unheard or often misunderstood. The couple’s relationship begins to deteriorate and communication suffers. A major part of my job as a couples therapist is to help each member of the couple learn how to stand in the othe....
Deborah Silver, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Email: Contact Deborah Silver
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Email: Contact Deborah Silver
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
I work with couples of all kinds - gay, straight, married, pre-married, living together, family dyads and groups and business partners. Couples counseling can help you and your partner listen to and ''"hear" each other in a new way, gain greater mutual understanding, become aware of the postive and negative effects you have on each other, help you break the cycle of re;etitive, destructive conversations and behaviors. ultimately you can learn to speak to each other in a constructive way leading to a more satisfying relationship.
Paul Josephson, LCSW
I have worked with couples for over 15 years; boyfriends, girlfriends, fiances, husbands, wives and partners. I utilize a highly dynamic and interactive approach with couples to help them communicate more effectively, understand each other more fully and allowing each person to advocate for themselves more completely. Being in a good relationship supports a healthy and fulfilled life.
Susie Greenebaum, MS ED, LCSW
The purpose of couples counseling is to stimulate self-reflection and to facilitate healthy, honest communication between individuals. Couples counseling can be a place where you and your partner come together to examine patterns of thinking and behaving which lead to unhealthy merging, distance and conflict. Couples counseling can also be a place to disclose new information, reassess old agreements, and change the direction of a relationship.
Mark Sichel, BCD, ACSW
I work with many couples in my practice, both married and unmarried, and work on teaching behaviors that lead to swifter conflict resolution and more satisfying interaction with each other. I help couples communicate but also focus on positive actions that can rebuild the foundation of a relationship: shared activities, date nights, traveling, and doing whatever is necessary to improve a couples sex life, both qualitatively and quantitatively. I've got a great deal of professional training but also have been married for 26 years and have learned from personal experience what it takes to have a great relationship.
Rev. Christopher Smith, LCAC, LMFT, LMHC
Helping you find wholeness...
Email: Contact Rev. Christopher Smith
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Email: Contact Rev. Christopher Smith
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Christopher sees couples (married, re-marriage or otherwise) understanding that close relationships are important in our lives. We are also all human, and at times these relationships do not live up to what we had hoped for. Together, with different techniques and appropriate help, issues can be addressed and the relationship can be continued (or, if desired, terminated) so that everyone has a sense of wholeness and peace within this important dimension of their lives. Christopher will guide your as you explore what is going on and though the journey to wholeness.
Daniel Minuchin, MA, LMFT
Some couples enter counseling looking for better communication, others are deciding whether to stay together or not. I try to help people see how their own background colors what they see and can create misunderstandings, help them change dysfunctional ways of relating, and try and make sure that they focus as much energy on increasing positives as they do on diminishing negative interactions.
James Brace, LCSW-R, CEET, EMT
Couples therapy is a very dynamic mode of treatment. We will look at communication styles, adult and young needs and current hurdles to a healthy relationship. Sometimes the relationship moves toward reconciliation, better understanding and closer feelings, and sometimes the best outcome is finding a way to end with love and respect. I will work with you each to support you in expressing your needs to experience all of what your relationship has to offer.
Howard Rossen, LCSW
Maintaining and nourishing a meaningful relationship is far harder than anyone can reasonably predict. You and your partner are both independently formed individuals that "come together to form a more perfect union." But if we don't learn to adapt and respect the needs of our partner how can we grow as a couple? And if we don't honor our individual needs and desires how can we breathe within ourselves? It is this battle of mutual respect for our relationship while honoring the self-respect of our individuality that creates the chasm of a couple's conflict. A healthy and supportive counseling environment can begin the process of regaining the spark that was ignited the first time you met.
Sandra Lugo, LCSW-R,MS,DCSW
Couples therapy and /or Marriage therapy allows for new and more intimate ways of communicating. Emotions and attachments are explored, while learning tools to improve communication.
Many couples become stuck in negative ways of relating to each other, and they find it difficult to navigate certain topics such as issues relating to sex, family, children, step-children, finances, friends, individual goals, personal space and other subjects.
People often avoid conflict and instead build resentment over time. Couples Counseling/ Marriage Counseling is a way to restore trust in a safe environment while learning to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts.
The therapist provides a supportive, ....
Joseph Cilona, Psy.D.
In working with couples, I begin with meeting one to two meetings with each person individually to get a clear sense of their experience of the problems and issues in the relationship, as well as goals and hopes for treatment. I then begin meetings with both partners and outline my thoughts and impressions as to the path I think therapy should take. I often recommend reading material and assign couples specific assignments to complete between sessions.
Jacqueline Swensen, PhD, LCSW
Licensed Psychoanalyst, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Email: Contact Dr. Swensen
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Email: Contact Dr. Swensen
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Has your relationship become something that isn't what you planned? Were you so happy as a couple in the beginning but now, years later, you find yourself asking questions like, "Who is this person?" Has the joy vanished? Do you wonder if you have a partner or a roommate? Has the passion disappeared? Relationships take work and can be difficult, and psychotherapy with Dr. Swensen might be just what you need. I can help you learn to talk in different ways to each other and express things that have eluded you in the past.
Elizabeth MacGregor, Ed.D, LPC
Psychoanalyst, Licensed Professional Counselor
Email: Contact Dr. MacGregor
10 Stoneybrook Rd., Montville 07045
Email: Contact Dr. MacGregor
10 Stoneybrook Rd., Montville 07045
Do you experience despair, dissatisfaction or distress in your relationship? Are there intimacy, sexual or communication difficulties? Does bitter fighting and name calling fill your home. We will identify and develop objectives designed to improve or alleviate your current symptoms and restore your relationship, where compromise and patience will bring you to a healthier and happier level of functioning.
Loren Gelberg-Goff, LCSW, CHt
Trust and communication are the cornerstones of every relationship. You can regain and reclaim trust that has been compromised, and communication that has been undermined. Learning to break patterns that harm your relationship, and incorporate new and healthier ways of relating is a process that can bring more respect, compassion and joy into your relationship. I will support you in the process of changing communication styles, and focus on behaviors and attitudes that promote trust and understanding between partners so that changes can be made in the short-term that will last for a life-time. Marriage/couples counseling involves 'labor', but it is a labor of love.
Gracie Landes, LMFT, CST
Licens. Marriage & Family Therapist, Certified Sex Therapist
Email: Contact Gracie
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
Email: Contact Gracie
Location Near Therapist: Ridgewood, NJ
When I work with a couple of any orientation or lifestyle, I help the people involved to improve the overall health of their relationship, using a variety of active techniques designed to give you a different experience of relating to each other. Once you begin to relate more successfully, you can choose how you want to act, and step out of old patterns of behavior you felt stuck in. Two of the most important elements of a couple are communication and sexuality. Because I am a Certified Sex Therapist as well as a Marriage and Family Therapist, I have a wide range of resources and skills to help you solve your particular problem.
Nancy Gubman, LCSW
I work with couples of all sexual orientations. My focus is the use of attachment theory - the ways in which people attach to other people. These patters are learned very early and continue throughout life. It's like a template is formed, based on learned experience, and people often react according to the template. If one person needs significant time alone and the partner needs significant amounts of interaction, there will usually be conflict around that - either, "You never talk to me" or "You never give me any space." When the needs are understood for what they are, rather than meant as rejection, the reactions often calm down.
Staci Rosenberg, LMSW, CEC
I have worked with couples for over 12 years in a multitude of areas; cohabitating, committed relationships, marriage, LGBT, having affairs....My mission is for everyone to have an outlet to be heard, learn to communicate effectively and create happiness through introspection and communication and find the best outcome for stress reduction and overall long term happiness.
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