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Looking for a Relationship Counselor?
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New York City Couples is a psychotherapy practice dedicated to providing couples with state-of-the-art expertise in relationship counseling. We use EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY to help couples get to the bottom of their fighting, understand what is underneath the argument, improve communication, rebuild connection. There is a way.
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Relationship Counseling for the Rest of Us.

New York City Couples offers Emotionally Focused Therapy for a wide range of couples, diverse in age, class, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity. We believe everyone deserves access to expert relationship counseling.
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Couples only ever fight about one thing: "Are you there for me?"

About Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Proven Results
EFT is based on decades of research using videotapes of actual couples and boasts a 70% rate for improvement in reported experience of safety and connection in relationships. Unlike other therapies based on unproven theories, EFT is based on observed interactions of attachment in family systems.
A Map of Connection
Unlike previous forms of therapy, EFT is not an endless exploration but rather a step-by-step approach to identifying the specific negative interactions in your relationship and restructuring the bond between you and your partner in more positive cycles.  
Cross-cultural
EFT is not based on culturally-biased ideas of Mars and Venus gender roles, but rather scientific observations of how human beings react to emotions. Culture, gender, sexual orientation, religious background or age may color emotion but do not change the emotion focused approach of EFT.
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We offer help for:

  • Loss of intimacy / sexual fulfillment
  • Infidelity and Affairs
  • Codependency
  • Addictions in Relationships

  • Surviving an affair
  • Improving communication
  • What to do when he won't answer you
  • Fights that never seem to be resolved
  • Modern Love: Polyamorous and open relationships
  • Gay Affirmative Couples Counseling
  • Diversity Matters: Cultural competence in the treatment room
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New York City Couples Clinicians

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Benjamin Seaman, LCSW is a graduate of Fordham University School of Social Work and is a Certified Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist. He is certified in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and trained in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, as well as Neurolinguistic Programming. Mr. Seaman is a co-founder of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy and started New York City Couples to make available his expertise in working with a diverse range of couples, from young urban professionals, couples in recovery, open relationships, LGBT couples and interracial/ cross-cultural couples. Having lived in Latin America, Mr. Seaman is fluent in Spanish and versed in Hispanic cultures and customs.

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Services

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Marriage Counseling and 
Couple Therapy

There is a way to reconnect! From the very first session with our relationship consultants you will start see the how the EFT model provides a map for reconnecting with your partner and understanding him or her in a new way. Disconnection and misunderstanding are replaced with a new way of seeing your partner. Read more»
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Relationship Counseling 
for Individuals

Worry, panic, depression, and anxiety can all stem from relationship difficulties. Whether you have just been through a breakup, or you just want to talk about your current relationship one-on-one, talking to a professional who understands relationship dynamics can help you restore your sense of wholeness, and help you overcome negative patterns. Read more »
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Workshops and Seminars

Hold Me Tight™ - Restoring the Bonds of Love. Full-Day Workshop for Couples

Sat, April 5, 2014
10am-4pm
CPID
352 7th Ave, Suite 1607
New York NY 10001

Email us if you are interested and we will put you on our waiting list!
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Download our free eBook on Relationships!

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The Hidden Dance - Understanding the Dynamic of Human Relationships
Curious about marriage counseling or couple therapy and wondering what it's all about? Download this free eBook so you can get a sense of how we work and what a first session might be like. This eBook covers the basics of attachment theory, which is the study of how human beings, like all mammals, start to connect from birth and all the way through old age. In this eBook you'll read about the two main defense strategies people use when they experience stress in a relationship, and how partners can reconnect in the face of those defense.

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Additional Reading


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Hold Me Tight, by Dr. Sue Johnson

​Heralded by the New York Times and Time magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become widely popular among therapists around the world. 

In Hold me Tight, Dr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship-from Recognizing the Demon Dialogue to Revisiting a Rocky Moment-and uses them as touchpoints for seven healing conversations. Through case studies from her practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.
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New York City Couples
Office of Benjamin Seaman, LCSW
352 7th Ave, Suite 1005
New York, NY 10001
212-465-3126

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