If you are part of a faltering marriage, you know just how difficult it can be to maintain hope for your current situation. When neither parties of a marriage are willing to accommodate one another’s needs, this can create a toxic environment that …Read More
The important question: How much do you want to know, and why? If your partner has had an affair—if there’s been infidelity in your relationship—how much do you want to know? Obviously, infidelity violates the bond of trust that healthy relat…Read More
Many of the couples who seek marriage counseling in Long Island cite money as a major concern in their relationship. For some couples, money and finances can become the main point of disagreement in the relationship. Issues surrounding money can bec…Read More
Recognition—in all of its various aspects—is the key to keeping love alive. If you don’t see or understanding something important about yourself or partner, or if your partner doesn’t “get” something important about you or about himse…Read More
My grandmother used to say, “If you cook with love, it tastes better.” Modifying that slightly, I say, “If you speak with love, it sounds better.” What am I getting at? Tone. The way a phrase, comment or question sounds is as important as…Read More
WHAT’S THE EMOTIONAL TONE OF YOUR MARRIAGE OR RELATIONSHIP? There’s a lot of chatter about what behaviors help strengthen a marriage or relationship. Much of that chatter points to the value of spending time together. We see numerous refe…Read More
Taking a Look Behind Closed Doors What is marriage counseling? What should you expect from marriage counseling? How does it help? Can marriage or couples counseling save a failing relationship? It’s mysterious—what goes on behind the closed doors…Read More
EXPLORING MORE OF WHY COUPLES ARGUE Who Do We Marry? And, why? When marriages fall apart, the resentments often sound like this: “ . . . He was as self-involved as my father and they both mostly put their own needs before mine. How was I …Read More
THE DARK TRUTH ABOUT FALLING IN LOVE Couples in conflict: they have the same argument over and over. They trigger the same resentments, provoke the same painful responses from each other and engage in the same awful behaviors as they did in their l…Read More
Professional marriage counseling and couples therapy helps heal after an affair or infidelity, helps build trust and improve communication, helps resolve arguments about money or sex, and teaches you what each needs to promote intimacy and emotional connection. For all couples looking to strengthen their relationship.
Therapy provides support and direction in overcoming addiction and substance abuse, in resolving anxiety, depression and other emotional pain including lack of confidence and low self-esteem. Therapy helps with clarifying sexual orientation, gender-based identity questions, LGBT issues, gay and lesbian questions.
Discernment Counseling has one goal: to help you decide whether to stay in the relationship and try to work it out, or to leave. Discernment Counseling treats both partners even when there’s disagreement about the desired outcome. Discernment Counseling is a brief, highly-focused protocol with just one goal: helping you decide.
