Jonathan Bloch

I specialize in couples, children, and adults. Good long-term relationships encounter increasing difficulties over time. It becomes harder to make progress on even minor problems. Each person believes their partner could make a few relatively easy adjustments – for example, to modify their tone of voice, to spend less time on their phone, to initiate shared activities – and the fact that they don’t seems unfair and even like a deliberate provocation. I help couples understand and begin to untangle the traps in their relationship, using tools that will be useful in the years to come. I have a depth of clinical experience that enables me to adapt to skillfully to the needs of my clients. Important tools are provided by Transactional Analysis, by D.W. Winnicott (“the good enough mother”), and by couples and family systems approaches. I emphasize cognitive and behavioral tools that are pragmatic. Many of these show how social and other relationships function. Others help you better underst