Couples Therapy in NYC
Let’s face it: couples fight.
All couples.
Monogamous, poly, straight or queer — being in an intimate relationship is enough to stir it all up.
You’re human. And humans are messy.
You’ve got needs, fears, triggers, and past wounds that don’t magically line up with your partner’s.
Now pile on career pressure, grad school, demanding kids, aging parents, money stress, and zero time to exhale?
At Sentient Psychotherapy, our couples therapists help all kinds of couples with all kinds of challenges.
Vanesa Treers M.SEd (she/her)
MHC-LP Couples Therapist in NYC
“I specialize in helping clients improve communication, manage interracial and intercultural relationship dynamics, parenting and family challenges, and recovering from infidelity.”
Vanesa Treers is a seasoned Couples Therapist at Sentient who works in-person and virtually. She is especially skilled in helping couples with the following problems:
Communication breakdown that results in exhausting bickering, stonewalling, or full-blown arguments that never actually resolve the underlying needs to be heard and understood.
Racial, cultural, and religious differences that can lead to misunderstandings, feeling isolated within your relationship, and strained family dynamics.
Gender, roles, and power dynamics like figuring out who carries the household load, manages the kids, earns more, initiates sex, or makes the big decisions. Every couple can fall into unspoken roles and expectations that leave one person feeling overburdened, unseen, or taken for granted, fueling resentment, power struggles, and contempt.
Infidelity You can’t believe your partner cheated. How will you ever trust them again with even the smallest things? Or you’re the one who strayed. You’re awash in shame and guilt for having lied and broken your promise of fidelity. Can this be fixed? Will the pain of betrayal or guilt ever go away? Should you stay or should you go?
Bri Vigorito M.SEd (they/them)
MHC-LP LGBTQ+ Couples Therapist in NYC
“I offer personalized, attachment-focused therapy for parents of young children, and LGBTQ+ and non-traditional couples.”
Bri Vigorito specializes in LGBTQ+-affirming relationship counseling at Sentient, with a focus on sex and sexuality. They work with couples navigating intimacy, parenting young children, ADHD, neurodivergence, and all the ways these things can affect connection, communication, and life together.
LGBTQ+ and Queer Relationships Whether you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, nonbinary, queer, polyamorous, non-monogamous, or navigating a relationship with more than two partners, relationships outside traditional norms come with added layers. Identity, sex and sexuality, gender, family expectations, jealousy, boundaries, and navigating different relationship structures can all get complicated. Therapy with a queer-identified and affirming therapist is the way to go.
Sex and sexuality are an important part of many intimate relationships. Mismatched sex drives, infertility, childbirth, opening a relationship, jealousy, sexual trauma, or simply losing touch with each other sexually can create distance, resentment, and hurt. Couples therapy gives you a place to talk openly about sex, understand each other’s needs and boundaries, and build a sexual relationship that feels good and authentic to both of you.
Attachment issues You long for closeness and constantly worry if your partner is “there” for you. Or you find yourself avoiding and resenting your partner’s neediness. When attachment-related patterns also affect parenting and how you relate to your small children, it’s time to seek an attachment-focused therapist.
ADHD and Neurodivergence Whether one or both of you cope with ADHD, and/or live on the spectrum, it can be very challenging not just on your own, but managing the challenges of emotion regulation, executive functioning and mismatched neurology in your intimate relationships.
EFT for Couples Therapy: the Gold Standard
Lola Sadai M.SEd (she/her)
MHC-LP EFT Couples Therapist in NYC
“I’m certified in Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT) couples therapy. I work with with Millennial and Gen-X couples looking to change damaging patterns of relating so they can thrive in their lives and relationships.”
Lola is an EFT-certified Couples therapist at Sentient. EFT is the evidence-based approach of choice for best results in relationship counseling.
Applying EFT, Lola can help you understand what’s underneath the same fight you keep having. The criticism, defensiveness, or shutting down often hide something more vulnerable: hurt, fear, rejection, or loneliness.
Instead of deciding who’s right, EFT helps you slow the cycle down and reach for each other differently. You learn to say what you really need and hear what your partner is actually trying to tell you.
Over time, your relationship starts to feel safer and more connected. You still disagree. You just stop losing each other in the process.
What to expect between sessions
LMHC EFT Couples Counselor in NYC
“I’m a relationship specialist and EFT-certified couples therapist. My clients are professionals dealing with high-conflict, communication and commitment issues, and new parenting.”
Ariana is a senior-level, EFT-certified couples therapist at Sentient who know how hard change is. Working with Ariana, you won’t just hash out arguments and blame. As an accountability partner, Ari takes an active role, assigns readings and other homework between sessions to support you through the process and help you meet your goals.
Couples therapy at Sentient means being willing to look at yourself and what you’re contributing to the problem, not just pointing a finger at your partner. Practicing behavior change between sessions increases the likelihood of successful couples therapy.
No matter how badly you feel in your relationship, there is hope. With EFT and multiculturally-attuned couples therapy, you and your partner(s) can make the changes you seek to heal from the hurt and level up your communication, sex life, work-life balance and fun.
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