Terri DiMatteo, MA, LPC

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Licensed Professional Counselor
Chatham Rd, Short Hills, New Jersey, 07078

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See additional office location: Princeton, 08542

  Nassau Street
  Princeton, 08542
  908-403-9300

Phone: 9084039300
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Session Fees: $200
www.opendoortherapy.net
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Online-counseling methods: Phone, Webcam

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Terri DiMatteo, MA, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor | Princeton, New Jersey

For more than a decade, I have had the privilege of counseling individuals and couples throughout New Jersey as they navigate some of the most important and painful experiences of their lives. As the founder of Open Door Therapy, I specialize in relationship care because our closest relationships have an extraordinary influence on our emotional and mental well-being. They are where we experience some of our deepest joys, our greatest vulnerabilities, and, when things go wrong, some of our deepest pain.

My work is focused on helping people understand what is happening beneath the surface of their relationships so they can move beyond confusion, disconnection, resentment, and hurt and find a clearer path forward. I work with individuals as well as couples, and I bring particular experience to marriage and relationship counseling, infidelity and affair recovery, and recovery from narcissistic abuse.

My Approach: The Intimacy Bond™

The Intimacy Bond™ is a clinical framework I developed to understand romantic relationships through the lens of the bond itself. I view a marriage or committed partnership as a protective bond—one that is created and strengthened when two people engage with one another through emotional and sexual intimacy.

From this perspective, relationship distress is not simply a collection of individual problems. Stress, conflict, betrayal, resentment, and emotional or sexual disconnection can interfere with the bond and leave both partners feeling alone, misunderstood, or uncertain about how to reconnect.

My role is to help you understand what is getting in the way of intimacy and address those barriers with compassion and clinical insight. The goal is not simply to stop arguing or get through a difficult period. It is to help you understand one another more deeply, restore emotional and relational connection, and create a relationship in which both people can feel seen, valued, and secure.

What I Help With

Counseling ServicesMarriage and relationship counselingInfidelity and affair recoveryRestoring trust after betrayalRebuilding emotional and sexual connectionAddressing resentment, conflict, and disconnectionNavigating separation and divorce with greater clarity and supportIndividual counseling for relationship concernsNarcissistic abuse recovery for individuals

Whether you are trying to repair a relationship, recover after betrayal, understand a painful relational pattern, or determine what comes next, therapy provides a place to slow things down, make sense of what has happened, and move forward with greater clarity.

Consulting Services

I also provide personal consulting for individuals and professionals seeking relational expertise, including strategic guidance around interpersonal, relational, and professional dilemmas.

A Note on Narcissistic Abuse Recovery

Narcissistic abuse recovery is offered exclusively as individual therapy. I do not provide couples counseling when one partner exhibits narcissistic traits, because couples therapy can be inappropriate and potentially harmful in abusive dynamics.

If you are recovering from a relationship with a narcissistic person, therapy can provide a safe, informed space to understand what happened, make sense of the relationship, regain your sense of self, and begin moving forward with greater clarity and confidence.

My Philosophy

I believe romantic relationships are fundamentally about connection. Emotional and sexual intimacy allow partners to know one another, respond to one another, and experience the relationship as a place of closeness and protection.

Life inevitably brings stress, disappointment, change, and conflict. The problem is not that couples experience these things; it is what happens when those experiences create distance and the distance becomes entrenched.

I help clients look beneath the presenting problem to understand the relational dynamics underneath it. When the barriers to intimacy can be identified and addressed, couples often experience something they have been missing for a long time: greater emotional lightness, peace of mind, understanding, and connection.

Practical Details

I provide secure telehealth counseling throughout New Jersey, allowing you to receive relationship care from wherever you are in the state. I am an out-of-network provider and do not participate with insurance, which allows our work to remain private and outside the constraints of insurance-based treatment.

I offer a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation so we can talk about what brings you to therapy, answer your initial questions, and determine whether I may be the right fit for you.

You do not have to figure this out alone. If your relationship is hurting, confusing, changing, or simply no longer feels the way it once did, we can talk about what is happening and what you would like to be different.
Contact me today to schedule your complimentary consultation.

Terri DiMatteo Reaches

Westfield NJ
Summit NJ

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