Relationships bring challenges and concerns. Being a partner to someone means sharing life with them, and life isn’t always easy. Relationship counseling is an excellent option for people who want to deepen their relationship, work on problems, or maintain a good balance of emotional intimacy.
Available Treatment Options
Therapist and counselor interventions for relationships include creating a safe space for partners to speak their truths, processing emotions related to the relationship, working on communication skills and boundaries, and encouraging growth.
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Relationship Issues
You wake up each day and it hits you again. You’ve entered a new reality: one you would do anything to escape. You've lost something or someone that made life make sense. Maybe that someone is you: your caregiving role has started to be the only role in your life anymore. Or maybe someone you love has died. Either way, you don't know where to go from here. It doesn't feel like the people in you...
The search for a therapist can be overwhelming. Seeking support takes courage, flexibility, and a willingness to change long standing habits and patterns. Take a moment to be kind to yourself for taking this important step. As a licensed professional counselor I accompany each client on their unique journey toward healing, authenticity, and connection. I believe in maintaining a safe supportive...
As a licensed master social worker, I offer therapy in a non-judgmental, safe and confidential environment. I provide a space where individuals feel comfortable sharing their concerns so that we can work together to gain insight into life's stresses and struggles. I collaborate with clients to develop effective coping mechanisms, process through life experiences, and accomplish personal goals. ...
In my work, I am privileged to help people find themselves and rediscover a full, connected, meaningful life. I get to listen, empathize, challenge, and empower my clients to overcome their difficulties. Most of my clients are adults experiencing some combination of depression, shame, anxiety, panic attacks, addictions, bipolar disorder, and/or trauma. Alongside individual therapy, I enjoy grou...
Your path to recovery, independence, and a higher quality of life may feel distant, but you need not travel alone. As a Master’s level Mental Health Counselor, my passion is empowering people to accomplish their goals in a mindful and compassionate manner. I specialize in counseling adolescents, young adults and executives who experience excessive stress, substance abuse, depression, anxiety or...
Are you struggling to get out of bed in the morning, have racing thoughts throughout the day or at night, isolate yourself from things you once enjoyed, cry for no reason, have angry outbursts at the simplest of things, feel hopeless in life, feel like you are spiraling downhill with no way out, or are you not happy with your relationships in life? There is hope to improve these areas and more...
My passion is facilitating the development of the human spirit. A greater understanding of one’s worth and value promotes happiness and optimism; with these qualities emerges a more loving and engaged human experience. I embrace eclecticism in all aspects of my life and clinical work. As a therapist, I use humor and wit coupled with scientifically-supported treatments (CBT, DBT, mindfulness and...
I am a skilled and compassionate counselor with an individualized approach to helping each client heal, grow, and live their best life. My training in mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy makes me a great fit for men and women who are struggling with anxiety, depression, and challenging life transitions like divorce, job loss, or serious illness. I help clients gain understanding and...
Our lives are filled with relationships- from those with our parents and siblings to those with our partners, children, classmates, co-workers and friends. When one of these relationships hits a roadblock, other areas of our lives can also be impacted. My goal as your therapist is to assist you in making adjustments as you navigate and transition into -and sometimes out of- these relationships ...
Life can be hard. Navigating it alone is even more difficult. As humans we are naturally relational creatures and crave social connection, especially when managing the struggles life brings our way. Counseling offers that social connection in a safe and nonjudgmental environment that is needed to successfully manage those struggles. Primarily using cognitive behavioral therapies, I aim to offer...
“My bond with my clients promotes positive regard, empathy, acceptance, and non-judgmental regard without criticism. My positive approach to therapy helps my clients reach their goals and puts in perspective their task in life that needs to be fulfilled. Putting the importance on my client’s positive behaviors and character gives them the capability to use their personal characteristics in find...
With the unknown and the anxiety of COVID 19 you may be thinking that the last thing that you should concern yourself with is your sex life. Maybe you have been struggling with painful sex, low sex drive, ED or any other sexual issue for a while now but, you are feeling like now is not the appropriate time to focus on this. Maybe you and your partner are together more than usual due to social...
Located in Old Bridge, NJ, Thrive Counseling Center (formerly Old Bridge Marriage & Family) offers a compassionate, comfortable and safe environment to help you and/or your family move through your struggles. Whether you manage chronic depression, anxiety, PTSD, or are currently in the midst of an unexpected crisis, our clinicians are ready and equipped to help you understand how trauma is stor...
Do you find yourself struggling with loss or life changes and find it difficult to cope? Are you having symptoms of anxiety, depression, addictive or unhealthy behaviors? When many think of loss and grief, one may assume they have lost a loved one. At times this is the case, but there are so many kinds of losses we are faced with in our lives; loss of self, loss of roles in life, loss of...
My focus in the counseling process is to meet individuals in their current life stage and work collaboratively to address any issues. As no two people are the same, an aim of treatment is to personalize the process with treatment goals to address unique needs. I am passionate about working with professionals, young adults, and adolescents as they navigate changes in their world and development....
