Couples
Beyond Understanding: Doing Curious In Therapy
Understanding Isn’t The Only Goal In Therapy. In psychotherapy, there’s an implicit bias toward understanding in a scientific sense. Through therapy, you come to understand some fact or set of facts that is hidden from view. The assumption is often, but not always, that through understanding, you will feel better. Sometimes, in my NYC therapy practice, this is true.However, there are…
Aug 24, 2017
Financial Couples Therapy: 6 Things Money Can Be In Your Relationship
In Financial Couples Therapy, Money Counts. Money matters in your relationship and in financial couples therapy. The assertion that money is frivolous or silly is a fairly privileged assumption. Money gives us access to food and shelter, provides our children with opportunities, can keep us healthy and safe, and can be a critical part of giving us options. Money can also be a location of…
Aug 17, 2017
Culture Matters In Couples Therapy
Culture Matters, Even For Couples Of The “Same Culture”. In my couples therapy practice, I often say to couples that we are all in and of a culture. How you see the world and how decisions are made about issues like monogamy, raising children, sharing a home, etc. are all cultural matters. Which is to say, they are influenced not only by where you come from geographically and ethnically, but also…
Jul 13, 2017
What Can Monogamous Couples Learn From Couples In Open Relationships?
Monogamous Couples Can Learn From Non-Monogamous Couples In Couples Therapy. Can couples in open relationships teach monogamous couples a thing or two about navigating and maintaining a partnership? It might seem like a strange question, but in my NYC couples therapy practice, I see how couples in open relationships, by stepping outside of the accepted norm (i.e. monogamy), put some things on the…
Jun 22, 2017
Intimacy And Sex Aren’t The Same Thing
Conflating Sex And Intimacy Is A Mistake. In my NYC therapy practice, I often see patients–both individuals and couples–who confuse sex and intimacy. But, sex and intimacy aren’t the same thing. There’s intimate sex and un-intimate sex. There’s intimacy without sex and sex without intimacy.For some, especially young people and those less experienced with sex (though not only), sex can come with…
Jun 15, 2017
What Makes A Great Marriage and More Couples Therapy-Related Reading
Couples therapy tackles a whole wide spectrum of topics. Each couple comes in with a distinct relationship, culture and experience that couples therapy can and needs to speak to. Especially when considering if couples therapy is the right fit, couples often want to know if and how a couples counselor approaches these unique issues and relationships.In order to expand on how we do couples therapy…
Jun 01, 2017
Relationship Counseling Isn't Just For (Romantic) Couples
Relationship Counseling Can Help Many Kinds of Relationships. Marriages and romantic couples aren’t the only relationships that benefit from relationship counseling. Ever hear someone say about a business partner or a sibling, “We fight like a married couple”? Relationship counseling is available to help any meaningful relationship that’s in trouble whether siblings, a parent and child, friends,…
May 04, 2017
10 Ways Marriage Counseling Can Be Your Relationship’s Secret Weapon
Marriage Counseling Isn’t Just For Couples In Crisis. Your relationship doesn’t need to be falling apart to seek marriage counseling. You wouldn’t wait for a lung infection to get dire before seeing a doctor, so why would you let your marriage get in trouble before seeing a marriage therapist? In fact, marriage counseling can be your relationship’s secret weapon, giving you tools for a healthy…
Apr 20, 2017
Having Plenty Doesn't Mean Money Issues Go Away: 11 Steps For Couples
Financial Couples Therapy Doesn’t Just Address A Lack Of Money. In my work with financial couples therapy, I’ve learned that everyone feels they don’t have enough money, even couples with plenty. I find it sobering to recognize that even folks with access to money that I could never imagine worry about money. It’s important to me, as well as the couples I work with, to recognize that money is, in…
Mar 09, 2017
Loneliness Doesn't Necessarily Equal Being Alone: New Ways Of Thinking About Loneliness In Relationships
Loneliness And Therapy In NYC. Whether it’s realized before an initial session or not, loneliness is a common experience and a frequent reason why people seek therapy. New Yorkers claim a particular experience with loneliness that I suspect is valid. NYC can be a lonely place, perhaps more so because we always feel surrounded by people. At first glance, it can seem fairly straightforward: I’m…
Feb 16, 2017
Negotiating Gender In Couples Therapy: Men Need More Than A Shrug
In the practice of therapy, particularly couples therapy, I often help patients navigate and negotiate how gender works in their marriage or romantic relationships. Last year, gender roles came up in the public sphere due to the presidential election, particularly in response to Donald Trump’s surreptitiously recorded remarks about women with the television host Billy Bush.In her article “What…
Jan 19, 2017
Considering Infertility Treatment? Don’t Leave Out Therapy
Both in and out of my NYC therapy practice, I have known so many families who have struggled with infertility. Infertility is an umbrella term that spans a wide array of experiences–a family struggling to get pregnant can look many different ways. Yet, one thing that is consistent, in most cases of infertility, is that therapy is almost always left out of the treatment.During the infertility…
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