Family therapy services in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Relationship and couples counseling.

Family counseling in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Honest and effective help for couples, relationships and blended families in and around Brooklyn, New York.


Marc Shulman, Psy.D.
Family Therapist

Marc Shulman, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist

721 Franklin Avenue, Garden City, New York 11530 | (516) 732-0273

When conflict arises within the family system it can create severe distress. My approach to family therapy begins with developing an understanding of the needs of each individual and the family unit as a whole. Based on this formulation a practical treatment plan is developed, which enables the family to create a healthy dynamic where conflicts can be resolved and a mutual understanding of the various perspectives of each family member can be recognized.

Marty Tashman, Ph.D.(psychology), ACSW, M.S.W.
Family Therapist

Marty Tashman, Ph.D.(psychology), ACSW, M.S.W.

Dr. Marty

622 -624 Valley Road, Uppper Montclair, New Jersey 07043 | 1-888-281-5850

During Family Therapy we deal with: patterns of communication (the way people in the family talk to each other); anger (how that sabotages the family); correcting dysfunctional patters, and negotiation (how to work out things so that everybody feels O.K. about the solutions). During family counseling families learn how to deal with crisis as well conflict management techniques. Also included are effective parenting skills for both children as well as teenagers. Therapy needs to have practical strategies and to be as short term as possible.

Michael Barmak, LCSW
Family Therapist

Michael Barmak, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

347 Lincoln Avenue East, Cranford, New Jersey 07016 | 908-276-8191

I teach family members a skill called the Intentional Dialogue to help improve family communication. Often family members don't feel heard, that what they say matters, understood and that others know what they are feeling. The Intentional Dialogue allows each family member to share their 'side of the story' in a safe environment without fearing being judged or criticized. When this happens family members start to work as a team rather than be adversarial.

So.i.Heard Music Therapy, MT-BC
Family Therapist

So.i.Heard Music Therapy, MT-BC

Music Therapist

10A E Willow St, Millburn, New Jersey 07041 | 973-232-5111

Our music therapists specialize in reaching children, teens, and young adults, including those with special needs like autism, ADHD, and Down's syndrome, as well as siblings of children with special needs who are working to identify their role or voice in the family. Individualized music exercises conducted by our highly trained therapists can address coping strategies, social skills, functional speech, and more!

Allia Brickman, LMHC, Cert. Gottman Therapist
Family Therapist

Allia Brickman, LMHC, Cert. Gottman Therapist

Alpha Psychotherapy Center

Virtual therapy, Manhasset, New York 11030 | 516-265-7069

Families can carry either unhealed wounds or trauma and/or may have unhealthy communication patterns. These issues can be significantly improved with family therapy. I create a safe space for all parties to share their feelings in a healthy way, without blame, focusing on their own personal experience. I then provide exercises and tools to help them gain understanding of one another and validate one another. This has often been markedly lacking and can be very healing to receive. We go back in time to understand how the current dynamic in the family developed and with that understanding, how it can be shifted into a healthier dynamic.

Patricia Pitta, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.
Family Therapist

Patricia Pitta, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.

Clinical and Board Certified Family Psychologist

35 Bonnie Heights Road, Manhasset, New York 11030 | 516 627 3056

The journey of life is filled with joy, disappointments, loss and renewal. Integrative Healing Family Therapy@ helps a child, adolescent and adult to find the strength to review life's troubling issues and to form new perceptions and change behaviors. It is essential to view the presented problems and pain as part of a larger system (famly of origin and extended family). The therapist connects with individual issues and personality characteristics to appreciate the individuals as well as the family's contribution to dysfunction. Therapist respects individual and family contexts and works with the family members to resolve issues where new boundaries and healthier interactions are attained.

Elana Chasser, LCSW, CSAT, CMAT
Family Therapist

Elana Chasser, LCSW, CSAT, CMAT

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist

North Village Avenue, Rockville Centre, New York 11570 | 516-489-2652

The parent-child relationship does not end when childhood ends. These are relationships that last for your lifetime, also as a grown adult. Sometimes conflicts with parents or children that originated when you or they were a child(ren) continue on into adulthood with recognizable themes. If you and your family member are wanting to address and work on improving your relationship, please explore therapy together. It is never too late become more peaceful if you both want to have that with each other.

Rich Heller, MSW, CPC, ACC
Family Therapist

Rich Heller, MSW, CPC, ACC

Relationship Coach

4 Benedict Place, Village of Pelham, New York 10803 | 9173099045

What makes working with you as a family different than you as an individual is your family has an identity as well. In fact, the health of your family has a great deal to do with how much you acknowledge the distinction between yourself as an individual and who you are a part of a family. In our work together, you and your partner will begin to differentiate yourselves as individuals from who you are in your family so that you can begin to nurture both.

Steven Sussman, Ph.D
Family Therapist

Steven Sussman, Ph.D

Licensed NJ & NY Psychologist

615 Sherwood Pkwy, Mountainside, NJ, New Jersey 07092 | 908-217-8106

I always include parent(s) in all sessions so they can learn how to bring out the best in their children. I reach, teach, educate and motivate children to value and respect their parents. When children show gratitude not attitude it is much easier for parents to praise and show love rather than yelling, punishing, and restricting their children. The resulting harmonious relations improve the atmosphere of the entire household and the benefits extend to siblings.

Esti Piotrkovski, LPC
Family Therapist

Esti Piotrkovski, LPC

Licensed Mental Health Counselor

331 Newman Springs Road, Red Bank, New Jersey 07701 | 732.795.2420

Family dynamics can be challenging. Working through past family traumas, disagreements and misunderstandings can ease a lot of the pain that drives families apart. Lots of traumas are carried down through the generations and counseling can help relieve some of that heaviness so families can set healthy boundaries, thrive, grow and communicate better.

Cristina Maria Fort Garcés, LCAT, ATR-BC, CPC
Family Therapist

Cristina Maria Fort Garcés, LCAT, ATR-BC, CPC

Licensed Gestalt, Somatic, and Creative Arts Psychotherapists

Online Office, New Rochelle, New York 10538 | 5183315459

We offer therapy to families struggling with communication, boundaries, past trauma, and just feeling completely overwhelmed. We understand, there is no manual, and often we don't have good examples from our own childhood. Do you long to have just one day where home can feel like a sanctuary and not a hellhole? We can help. We're with you and we're here to help your family be able to with each other. Get in touch with us today.

Wendi Dumbroff, MA, LPC
Family Therapist

Wendi Dumbroff, MA, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Kids live in the context of their families, and I believe that when you work with kids, the family should be included because this is the best way to create change. As parents, you are the most important people in your children's lives, and I want to strengthen your connections with them. It is important to look at the cycles that families get into, and also to understand what prevents communication between kids and their parents. The therapy is tailored to the needs of your family, so who is present in each session may vary. I want to support individuals as well as restore and improve the connection between parents and their children. This also applies to adult children and their parents.

Cathy Noblick, LCSW
Family Therapist

Cathy Noblick, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

39 Avenue at the Commons, Suite 106, Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702 | 732-380-0012

We have our closest, longest-lasting, and most complicated relationships with family. When there is divorce, remarriage, addiction, mental illness or other dysfunction it can become even more complicated. With my Family Systems perspective I can help you understand how your family helped to form the person that you are, and help you untangle yourself from the dysfunction and heal the relationships that are important to you.

Tanvi Mathew, MS, LPC
Family Therapist

Tanvi Mathew, MS, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

162 E. Ridgewood Avenue- Ste. 2, Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450 | 551-775-0575

Families who come to Emerge redefine their goals individually and as a family unit. They gain an understanding of where their feelings and behaviors stem from and what they need to change. Within a matter of months families begin to see the growth and change that once was stagnant because they have now learned to communicate with one another through effective listening and reflective responding.

Julia Sgro, MSW, LSW
Family Therapist

Julia Sgro, MSW, LSW

Psychotherapist

34 Sycamore Ave #2e, Little Silver, New Jersey 07739 | 732-947-4858

Depending on what the focus and goals are from the client depends on the approach I would take to facilitate family therapy. Through strategic therapy, families learn to communicate better and create healthier relationships by identifying destructive patterns and replace them with more positive ones. Clients can also benefit from structural family therapy (SFT). I use this approach to focus on how family interactions and dynamics contribute to the problems or issues your family may be facing.

Samantha Ciparis, LSW
Family Therapist

Samantha Ciparis, LSW

Licensed Social Worker

34 Sycamore Ave Suite 2E, Little Silver, New Jersey 07739 | 732-947-4767

Every family has their ups and downs. Having proper communication and trust is key to successful family dynamic. I work with families as a neutral party to improve internal relationships and help build a stronger family system. In each session, every family member will have the chance to speak their mind and express themselves with support and guidance.

Jerri Shankler, LCSW, LCADC
Family Therapist

Jerri Shankler, LCSW, LCADC

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Alcohol & Drug Counselor

339 Changebridge Rd, Ste 1, Pine Brook, New Jersey 07058 | 201-452-1432

When a loved one has an addiction or alcohol problem, the whole family suffers. The impact may not be immediately evident, but it is there, festering and creating anger, resentment, insecurity and other emotional and often financial issues. Families often feel beat up by the addict and then beat up by the treatment centers, who offer addict focused education and minimal family treatment. Who is supporting you, the family, when your family weekend is over? You loved one is released from treatment with an aftercare plan. What is your aftercare plan? Living with a newly recovering person doesn’t have to mean walking on eggshells. Compassionate family focused education, coaching and therapy help families heal and create lives worth living.

The Imago Way, Psy.D. & L.C.S.W.
Family Therapist

The Imago Way, Psy.D. & L.C.S.W.

Licensed Psychologist & Licensed Social Worker

320 Orienta Avenue, Mamaroneck, New York 10543 | 914-282-1698

We come from a systems approach when working with families. We teach family members how to communicate more effectively with one another. There is an emphasis on personal responsibility and each family member looking at how their behavior is contributing to the problems. Building empathy between family members is also a main focus for us when working with families. We strive for families to leave sessions feeling more connected and understood by each other with the tools to be more successful in their communications. We do family therapy both in the office and in homes.

Nicole Hraniotis, M.D.
Family Therapist

Nicole Hraniotis, M.D.

Child, Adolescent, & Adult Psychiatrist

Shrewsbury Executive Offices, 788 Shrewsbury Avenue Suite 2206, Building 2, Door E, Tinton Falls, New Jersey 07724 | 732-383-6255

It is always important to work with families when working with children. Through the use of family therapy, communication between family members is enhanced and conflicts are better resolved. Family therapy can be useful in any family situation that causes stress, grief, anger or conflict. It can help you and your family members understand one another better and bring you closer together.

Terri DiMatteo, MA, LPC
Family Therapist

Terri DiMatteo, MA, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 07417 | 9084039300

In family counseling family members develop healthy ways of communicating and responding to one another to create and establish an atmosphere of trust and emotional safety. Family members learn to identify their own needs, increase sensitivity to the needs of others and interact in ways that build trust. Family counseling is conducted in an atmosphere of respect and dignity for all.

Donna Schinik, L.C.S.W.
Family Therapist

Donna Schinik, L.C.S.W.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

311 North Street - ste. 203, White Plains, New York 10605 | 914-589-7060

Family therapy is often times a necessary extention to individual therapy. Families are supposed to work as a system. Sometimes the system breaks down and one member may be viewed as the broken piece. Until the system comes together to work through what is really happening the problem often persists. In therapy together we can look at your system as a whole. Let's open lines of communication between family members, improve your relationships and begin enjoying your lives together again.

Dana Spada, PhD, LCSW
Family Therapist

Dana Spada, PhD, LCSW

Psychotherapist

73 Mercer Road , Colts Neck , New Jersey 07722 | 516-236-9401

Family therapy is one way to start tp heal families that are struggling with their relationships with each other. Familial relationships can be extremely painful. In fact, they can be the most painful relationships we experience in our lives. This is because they run so deep. Family therapy can help facilitate better communication, understanding and compassion toward each other.

Noel Rapp, MSW,LSW,LCADCI
Family Therapist

Noel Rapp, MSW,LSW,LCADCI

Licensed Therapist

73 Mercer Road, Colts Neck, New Jersey 07722 | 732-947-4447

My approach to engaging in family therapy is working through the lens of structural, strategic, and narrative therapy. This consists of creating a safe and welcoming space for all family members to be able to express their roles, concerns, and current issues within the family system. Each member of the family plays an important role in this type of therapy.

Elissa Grunblatt, LCSW-R
Family Therapist

Elissa Grunblatt, LCSW-R

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

191 Broadway, , Amityville, New York 11701 | 631-264-0058

Families experience developmental stages, just like people do. Families are made up of individuals that require love, respect and must also exhibit a certain amount of cooperation to work together successfully. When families stop growing together and grow apart, there are many reasons why this might occur, and it is time to see a therapist experienced in the challenges of working with families. I will seek to restore the hierarchy - parents in the executive role and children learning and growing using the love and respect they receive from good parenting. I will work with the values and rules you prescribe for your family, and increase communication and cooperation.

Gordon Gooding, LCSW, ACSW
Family Therapist

Gordon Gooding, LCSW, ACSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker / Psychotherapist

181 Main Street, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724 | 631-351-2940

Growing together with our loved ones can be an amazing gift. Somewhere along the line we sometimes struggle with those closest to us. We may bring our old emotional issues into a new relationship or perhaps we find our old ways of communicating with our loved one is no longer working the way it used to. Change is difficult but taking steps to increase communication and sort out our old beliefs that no longer serve us, can bring new light and joy to the relationships we cherish.



11215 is a zip code located in Kings County and part of Brooklyn, New York. It has a land area of 2.177 square miles.  The population of 11215 is 63,488 people.