Couples Therapy on the Upper West Side

If your relationship is on the rocks, there is no one better to call than Robin Bryant, Ph.D..

Just because your partnership is experiencing a rough patch, doesn’t mean that it’ll be this way forever. Fulfilling and genuine love is hard to come by, and if you both feel that there’s still potential, there’s no reason to give up on the relationship.

Robin Bryant, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist on the Upper West Side specialized in couples’ therapy. Fully certified and highly trained, I have the best and most proven couples’ therapy exercises for you and your partner. I provide a warm and safe environment and expert guidance and advice.

Want to start working on your relationship? Get in touch with me now at (917) 751-5109!

Transform Your Relationship Through Expert Marriage Counseling

I specialize in professional marriage counseling, designed to help couples navigate the complexities of their relationship. My approach is rooted in empathy, understanding, and a commitment to facilitating meaningful and lasting change.

Whether you're grappling with communication issues, trust breaches, or simply want to deepen your connection, we're here to guide you. My tailored sessions provide a safe space for honest dialogue, self-discovery, and nurturing the bond you both share.

Individual vs. Couples Therapy: Finding Your Path

While couples therapy focuses on resolving issues within a relationship and enhancing communication, individual therapy tends to concentrate on personal growth and addressing individual issues. That being said, there's no 'one-size-fits-all' approach to therapy. Both individual and couples therapy have their distinct advantages.

Individual Therapy

In individual therapy, you'll have the space to focus solely on your personal struggles and growth outside of the relationship context. This could be particularly beneficial if you're struggling with personal issues that impact your relationship but may not directly involve your partner.

Couples Therapy

On the other hand, in couples therapy, both partners work together with me to navigate their relationship issues. This can help both partners develop better communication skills, resolve conflicts more effectively, and understand each other's perspectives more deeply.

Collaborative counseling can be a necessary step if both partners are committed to improving the relationship together.

Experience the Benefits of Relationship Therapy

Experience the benefits of relationship therapy and rediscover the joy and fulfillment in your partnership.

Engaging in this therapy can:

• Improve communication: I help you develop skills for open and effective dialogue, eliminating misunderstandings that often lead to disputes.
• Rebuild trust: Therapy sessions assist in rebuilding trust that might have been damaged due to past issues, fostering a stronger bond between partners.
• Resolve conflicts: I guide you toward resolution of conflicts, ensuring the preservation and enhancement of your relationship.
• Deepen emotional connection: Collaborating through tailored exercises, we facilitate a deeper emotional bond, rekindling the love and affection that may have faded over time.
• Strengthen your relationship: Together, we work on reinforcing the foundations of your relationship, making it stronger and more resilient to future challenges.

Meet Your Licensed Couples Counselor

As a licensed counselor, I’m experienced in addressing a wide range of issues that couples often face, including communication breakdowns, trust concerns, conflict resolution, and emotional disconnect. I’m trained to guide you with empathy while maintaining an unbiased, non-judgmental approach.

My goal is to create an environment where both partners feel comfortable expressing their feelings and concerns, encouraging open dialogue and mutual understanding. This process helps uncover the root issues in your relationship and develop effective strategies to address them, fostering a healthier and more fulfilling connection.

Reinvigorate Your Love Life With Our Expert Relationship Counseling

Discover the path to a healthier, happier relationship with my comprehensive relationship counseling. I understand that every couple's journey is unique, which is why I offer personalized strategies to address your specific relationship challenges.

As a professional counselor, I provide a safe and unbiased space for you to express your concerns. Together, we’ll work on helping you reconnect with your partner and reignite the spark that brought you together.

Speak With a Professional Couples Therapist

We’ll begin by scheduling an initial consultation where you and your partner will answer a series of questions to assess your current relationship and identify the challenges you're facing. I want to understand the full story so I can determine the best way to approach your sessions.

For maximum efficiency, I encourage you to be fully committed to the process and to make sure your partner is on the same page as you. First and foremost, there must be a willingness to work on the partnership from both parties.

At first, working with me may feel like an adjustment. There are often challenging aspects couples face in therapy, but learning to work through those difficulties is part of the journey. You’ll likely have conversations you’ve never had before and face questions you haven’t considered, but I’ll be here to support you as you navigate new ground in your relationship.

You might hear things from your partner that they’ve never expressed before. This can bring up strong emotions for both of you, but it’s important to remember that you’re in a safe space. When you're here working on your relationship, your success as a couple is my priority. It might feel challenging at first, but you’ll gradually become more comfortable addressing issues this way—and you'll be glad you started. I continue to hear from many former clients, some of whom still send holiday cards every year.

When Should You Seek Couples Therapy?

It’s estimated that the average couple seeking therapy has been in conflict for about six years. That’s a long time. While many people wait until their relationship issues become severe before starting couples therapy, that isn’t the only or even the best option. When issues go unresolved, they can deepen into lasting hurt and resentment, creating distance between you and your partner.

I don’t believe your relationship needs to be on the brink before you consider couples counseling. It’s always better to be proactive and work through challenges before they cause deeper harm. If you're concerned about frequent arguments, communication struggles, emotional distance, or feeling like you've lost the spark, it’s never too soon to begin working on these issues with a licensed therapist.

Please don’t wait until it’s too late when you start couples therapy. With my understanding and proactive couples therapy sessions, you can get ahead of the problem and deal with any communication issues or fights before they fester and become more serious. Contact me to book your first appointment.

What Couples Therapy Is all About:

If you are considering couple’s therapy, already you can be sure that your intentions are in the right place. Wanting and seeking help from a professional therapist is an excellent start because it shows right out of the gate that you care enough to work on your relationship.

When in a marriage or long-term romantic relationship, it is easy for people to get stuck inside communication patterns, especially when discussing difficult topics. When two people spend a lot of time together, communication patterns naturally develop, but some aren’t useful. A result of this can be an overwhelming feeling of having had the conversation a thousand times before. The truth is, you probably have, and not much progress was made on any occasion.

Bringing a therapist like Robin Bryant, Ph.D. into the room with you can help you locate the pitfalls in your communication style and expose yourself to fresh perspectives that can help improve communication moving forward.

What Are Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Sessions for Couples?

Emotionally Focused Therapy is a type of couples therapy that focuses on improving the emotional bond between partners. In EFT sessions, couples work with a therapist like me to identify and address the negative patterns in a relationship that are causing distress and build positive habits of communication and interaction.

Here are some ways EFT sessions can help partners overcome obstacles and strengthen the relationship:

Increased Emotional Awareness

EFT sessions help people in a relationship become more aware of emotions, both their own feelings and those of their partner. This increased emotional awareness can help partners communicate more effectively and with greater empathy and understanding.

Build Trust and Intimacy

Focusing on emotions can help couples build trust and intimacy by creating a safe space where they can share their thoughts, feelings, and needs without fear of judgment or rejection.

Identify Negative Patterns

Identifying negative patterns in a relationship, such as criticism, defensiveness, or avoidance, is possible with the help of an EFT-certified therapist. By recognizing these patterns, couples can learn to interrupt them and develop new, positive patterns of communication and interaction.

Improve Communication

Focusing on emotions during sessions can help couples improve communication by teaching them how to express their feelings and needs in a way that is respectful and effective. This can help couples avoid misunderstandings and conflicts.

Resolve Past Hurts

EFT sessions help couples work through past hurts and unresolved emotional pain that may affect their relationship. By addressing these issues, both parties can work constructively together to move past reoccurring issues and build a stronger, more resilient relationship.

If you’re considering exploring the benefits of our EFT sessions, I encourage you to contact me to schedule an initial consultation.

How Intimacy Counseling Can Help Solidify Relationships

If you or your partner feel that a lack of physical or emotional intimacy is affecting your relationship, intimacy counseling with a trusted therapist can help. In these sessions, I’ll support you in building trust and creating space to express your deepest needs and desires.

These sessions are tailored to the comfort of both partners and may include topics like:

• Expressing desires respectfully
• Exploring different ways to deepen emotional connection
• Discussing sexual concerns
• Exploring differing preferences respectfully
• Discovering new techniques to enhance sexual relations
• Addressing negative beliefs and insecurities

The goal of intimacy-focused sessions is to help couples deepen communication and connection and increase overall satisfaction for both partners. Would you like to learn more about intimacy-focused therapy? Feel free to contact me for more information about my therapy services.

When Infidelity Counseling for Couples Is the Right Choice

Infidelity counseling, or affair recovery therapy, is designed to help couples heal after one partner has been unfaithful.

The following are some situations where infidelity counseling may be the right choice for couples:

• After an affair has been discovered
• When there is a history of infidelity
• When there are communication issues
• When there are intimacy issues
• When both partners are willing to work on the relationship

Infidelity counseling requires the equal participation of both partners and can help couples work through the pain, betrayal, and trust issues that arise from the affair.

If rebuilding trust is something you and your partner would like to try, don’t hesitate to book an appointment with me.

Build a Stronger Relationship With Couples Therapy

My highest priority is to help any couple seeking my services to enter into their relationships with a higher level of security, confidence, and success. It’s essential for me that anyone who wants the transformative help of couples therapy can receive the guidance and support of a professionally trained ear. I'm passionate about helping you be in a more connected and healthy relationship.

To help you achieve your relationship goals, I focus on developing the following strengths:

• Listening to understand
• Effectively communicating perspectives
• Setting healthy boundaries
• Improving trust
• Resolving conflict with win/win resolutions
• Improving quality time together
• Reigniting passion and intimacy
• …and more

Together, we’ll build a strategy that focuses on the specific problems you’re facing to help you become more engaged and communicative in your relationship. Let’s work together to help you and your partner become stronger together.

Foster Trust and Respect With Open and Honest Communication in Couples Counseling

During sessions with me, you’ll be able to communicate openly and honestly in a warm, safe environment, and I’ll help guide the conversation in the right direction. This will enable you and your significant other to have healthy, constructive conversations and halt passive aggressiveness and other negative communication habits in their tracks.

A space where you and your partner can actively listen to each other while properly expressing your feelings and concerns will help you build trust and respect and hence, help mend the relationship. Relationship therapy is a lot of work, but if you value your partnership, the work will be well worth it.

Focusing on Your Emotions Throughout Therapy

One of my main strategies is to provide a space where each partner can openly discuss how they feel. This may not sound extraordinary, but in relationships, we often avoid asking the right questions, and we rarely listen fully, especially when the answers are hard to hear. In our sessions, I’ll ask you direct and thoughtful questions about how you feel and what you want from the relationship. Each of you will have time to speak, and during that process, a lot can be uncovered.

By emphasizing specific communication patterns and the resulting emotions, in many cases, my clients feel they were able to express long-suppressed feelings productively. Think of your therapy session as a platform to air your grievances and do so in a way that aims toward a more fruitful marriage or relationship.

Robin Bryant, Ph.D.: Expert Couples Therapy NYC

Whether an event has caused a breach in trust or your relationship feels like it has lost its spark, Robin Bryant, Ph.D. is here to provide you with the tools and guidance to work through it. I’m confident that I’m one of the most effective couples therapists on the Upper West Side and in the greater New York City area, and I have a track record of success to prove it.

So when your relationship just doesn’t feel the same as it did, but you and your significant other are dedicated to each other and want to make it work, give my couples counseling a try!

There are many factors in a relationship that can start to feel strained. Coming to therapy with Robin Bryant, Ph.D. won’t just help you work through what’s causing that strain, it will also relieve a large part of the stress you’re facing by trying to figure it out alone. I’ve been working with couples for a long time and have seen many different types of relationships. With years of experience and a wide range of strategies to help couples get back on track, you can trust Robin Bryant, Ph.D. to help you repair and strengthen your relationship.

Embarking on couples therapy is a meaningful step. Robin Bryant, Ph.D. will provide strategies you can use between sessions to keep strengthening your relationship. These tools will help you become more compassionate toward your partner’s needs and more attuned to their experience in the relationship.

People are very complex, and even if you have spent years with your partner, you don’t know everything about them. It can be difficult for some people to recognize this fact, but it is positive. It means that there will always be something new to discover and appreciate about your partner.

What Bringing a Therapist In Can Do

You will face questions and conversation topics that you may never have thought about before, and each partner in the relationship will hear things from the other that they may have never heard. Often this is a revealing and enlivening experience that ends up being more motivating in the long term than hard to hear.

Think of Robin Bryant, Ph.D. as a judgment-free soundboard for your relationship concerns. With my experience and guidance, you’ll feel heard, and I’ll help steer conversations in productive directions so both of you leave each session with clear steps to take before the next one.

In the first few sessions, you might be shocked by the process. Things might be divulged that were unexpected, intense, and hard to digest. This is often necessary for the process to be successful, and you will gradually become more able to handle those difficult conversations.

Think of it this way: the fact that you’re seeking out help in the first place is very positive. It means that you want to fix the things straining your love life.

There are no cure-alls in a relationship. Relationships require maintenance and lots of care. Lack of attending to the relationship and the individuals inside of it can lead to problems, and if the issues remain unattended, they can escalate.

Robin Bryant, Ph.D.’s specialized knowledge in relationships can help you build a stronger, more successful partnership. If you're ready to improve your relationship or are feeling worn out from constant conflict, please reach out today. I’ll work with you to find a time that fits your schedule.

Flexible Scheduling With Our Therapist

One of the biggest hurdles to starting couples therapy is often finding a time that fits into a busy schedule. Many of my clients are married with families, and I understand how difficult it can be to carve out time in a full and demanding life. If you’re seeking support, I believe you should be able to access it, no matter how complex your schedule may be. That’s why I offer flexible scheduling options to help you and your partner find a time that works to attend sessions together.

Whether you need to schedule a session around your work hours or prefer virtual appointments, I’m happy to accommodate your needs. I’m also flexible with session frequency, because I understand that weekly visits may not be possible for everyone. Just come as often as you can.

Contact me today to schedule your first appointment with a registered couples therapist.

Cost-Efficient and Reliable Couples Counseling Services

When you want great counseling services that aren’t a financial burden, there’s only one name you need to know: Robin Bryant, Ph.D.. With me, you’ll never have to choose between getting the help your relationship needs and staying within your budget.

Good couples therapy should be affordable for anyone who needs it. That’s why Robin Bryant, Ph.D. is committed to offering effective, accessible care. If the cost feels out of reach, please reach out to me anyway. I’ll work with you to find a payment strategy that fits your situation.

Please don’t let money be the item that gets in the way of your relationship improving. Just get in touch with Robin Bryant, Ph.D. today, and you will be one step closer to the help you need. Call today to get started.

The Best Couples Therapy on the Upper West Side

Call Robin Bryant, Ph.D. today to help you fix your relationship and make it better than ever before!