Couples Therapy in New York
Couples therapy serves to help people in intimate relationships resolve problems they are having as a couple. Couples enter relationships implicitly and explicitly carrying the positive and negative experiences of their childhoods, their parents' relationships or those of other important adults, and their own past romances and friendships.
Couples often come to therapy when their wishes and needs aren't being met in their relationship. Sometimes people get into relationships not knowing exactly what they want from them and others have trouble saying what they want. At other times, people know what they want, can say it, and the relationship ultimately can't provide it, or at least it seems so. Some relationships start off great and people meet each others' needs, but sometimes those needs change subtly or dramatically and can't be articulated. Relationships change due to careers, children, friendships, psychological problems and so on. Sometimes couples who have a solid foundation, need help getting back on track.
Meet Dr. Gottdiener
- PhD psychologist with 25+ years helping couples through therapy
- Board-certified specialist in psychoanalytic & psychodynamic psychology, psychoanalysis, and addiction psychology
- Professor & former director of doctoral program in clinical psychology at CUNY
- Both in-person (Midtown Manhattan) and telehealth options available
Couples therapy can help you understand what you want from each other; whether you want to and can provide it to each other, and then how to go about doing so. Couples therapy can also help people conclude that their relationship might not be able to give them what they want, which might mean accepting it as it is or ending it. Couples therapy can help two people end their relationship with as little pain as possible, especially when children are involved.
A consultation can help a couple determine if therapy might be useful and if I might be the right therapist for you.