Couples and Marriage Therapy

Strengthen your connection and feel more aligned

Relationship Support That Meets You Where You Are

Couples and marriage therapy offers a space to slow down, better understand your relationship, and work through patterns that may be creating distance, conflict, or confusion over time.

We work with couples across New York through telehealth, with in-person sessions available in Brooklyn through select providers. If you have questions about couples therapy or are unsure whether it’s the right next step, our team is available to help guide you.

What Couples Therapy Can Help With

Couples therapy focuses on how partners relate to one another during stress, change, and moments of disconnection. Rather than assigning blame, therapy helps couples understand patterns and develop new ways of responding to each other.

Couples may seek therapy to work through:

Communication Breakdowns

When conversations turn into arguments, misunderstandings linger, or partners feel unheard despite trying to explain themselves.

Repairing Trust After Betrayal or Rupture

Rebuilding safety and connection after infidelity, secrecy, broken agreements, or emotional breaches that haven’t fully healed.

Navigating Life Transitions Together

Support during new parenthood, fertility challenges, illness, caregiving roles, career changes, relocation, or other major shifts.

Emotional Distance or Loss of Intimacy

When partners feel disconnected, stuck in routine, or more like roommates than a couple.

Recurring Conflict Patterns

Arguments that repeat, escalate quickly, or never feel fully resolved, even with effort.

Anxiety, Depression, or Chronic Stress Within the Relationship

Understanding how individual mental health struggles affect the partnership and learning how to support each other without burnout.

Differences in Needs, Expectations, or Values

Working through mismatches around roles, boundaries, intimacy, or future plans in a collaborative way.

Strengthening the Relationship

Building deeper emotional understanding, healthier communication, and more secure attachment—even when the relationship isn’t in crisis.

We’re Here for Every Season of Your Relationship

We work with couples across a wide range of relationship stages, including:

Dating and Early Relationships

Navigating communication differences, boundaries, and early patterns that feel confusing or hard to name.

Premarital and Commitment Transitions

Exploring expectations, values, and concerns as relationships move toward deeper commitment.

Long-term Partnerships and Marriage

Supporting couples navigating change, stress, or disconnection over time while maintaining closeness.

Relationships in Transition

Adjusting to parenthood, illness, loss, career shifts, or other major life events that impact how partners relate to one another.

What to Expect

Couples therapy provides a shared space where conversations can slow down and feel more intentional.

You’ll have weekly, 45-minute sessions with your therapist. A typical day may include:

Sessions are paced intentionally, creating space for both partners to feel heard, understood, and supported as the work unfolds.

Our Approach to Couples Therapy

Support With a Clear Focus

Couples therapy is shaped around specific goals—whether that’s improving communication, rebuilding trust, navigating change, or something else. Our goal isn’t to keep you in therapy forever, but to give you the tools to move forward with confidence.

Matching Based on Your Needs

Relationships are complex, and no single approach works for every couple. Our team includes therapists with specialized training in different forms of couples work, including emotionally focused, attachment-based, structured, trauma-informed, and skills-based approaches.

Attentive to Identity and Lived Experience

Couples therapy is influenced by more than communication alone. We offer affirming care for LGBTQIA+ couples and approach therapy with cultural awareness and respect for each partner’s lived experience.

Therapeutic Approaches Used

Depending on the therapist and the needs of the couple, therapy may draw from:

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Focuses on understanding emotional reactions and attachment needs that drive conflict and disconnection.

The Gottman Method

A structured, research-based approach that helps couples improve communication and manage conflict more effectively.

Attachment-Based and Relational Approaches

Explores how early relationships and past experiences shape how partners connect, respond to closeness, and navigate conflict in their current relationship.

Trauma-Informed Couples Therapy

Considers how past trauma, stress, or loss may affect emotional reactions, trust, and communication within the relationship.

Skills-Based Tools for Communication and Emotional Regulation

Provides practical strategies to support clearer communication, emotional awareness, and the ability to stay engaged during difficult conversations.

We Accept Most Major Insurance

We are in-network providers with:

Before your first visit, we’ll verify your benefits and explain your expected costs so there are no surprises.

How It Works

Reach Out

You start by submitting a contact form or reaching us at (212) 405-2685. We’ll ask questions to understand your needs, preferences & availability, and we’ll verify your insurance.

Get Thoughtfully Matched

Based on what you share, we’ll match you with a therapist whose training, experience, and style fit your needs.

Free 15-Minute Consultation

You’ll meet with the therapist for a free consultation. If it’s a good fit, you can move forward. If not, we’ll happily adjust the match.

Meet Our Couples Therapists

Staci Grodin, MFT

Licensed Psychotherapist

Jenna Henek, LMSW

Licensed Psychotherapist

Jackquelin Grant, MHC-LP

Licensed Psychotherapist

Genifer Lancaster, LMSW

Licensed Psychotherapist

Mila Curry, MHC-LP

Licensed Psychotherapist

Tia Scott, LMSW

Licensed Psychotherapist

Find Support Through Couples & Marriage Therapy in New York

We provide couples & marriage therapy for adults across New York via telehealth, with limited in-person availability in Brooklyn.

If you’re unsure where to begin or whether couples therapy is right for you, our team is happy to answer questions and talk through what kind of support might be most helpful.

FAQs: Couples and Marriage Therapy

When should couples consider therapy?

Couples may seek therapy for many reasons. Therapy can be helpful when communication feels strained, connection has shifted, trust has been impacted, or during major life transitions like parenthood, illness, or career changes.

Is couples therapy only for relationships in trouble?

No. Many couples come to therapy to strengthen their relationship, improve communication, or be more intentional together—even when things aren’t “bad.”

How often are couples therapy sessions?

Most couples begin with weekly 45-minute sessions, especially early on. Frequency may change as goals are met or as the relationship evolves.

Will the therapist take sides?

No. Couples therapy focuses on understanding patterns between partners rather than assigning blame. The therapist works to support the relationship while ensuring both partners feel heard and respected.

What if one partner is more hesitant about therapy?

That’s common. Therapy provides a structured space where conversations can slow down and feel more productive. Many hesitant partners find the process feels different—and more balanced—than they expected.

How do you match couples with a therapist?

We consider the relationship’s goals, challenges, preferences, and scheduling needs when matching couples with a therapist. Different therapists bring different areas of specialization in couples work.

What if the therapist doesn’t feel like the right fit?

Every couples therapist offers a free 15-minute consultation so both partners can ask questions and assess whether they fit together. If it doesn’t feel right, we can explore other options within the practice.