Couples Therapy
We help couples understand the patterns underneath their conflict, communicate differently, and feel close again.
- Difficulty expressing emotions or vulnerability with your partner
- Fearing abandonment or rejection, leading to heightened anxiety
- Patterns of conflict that seem to go unresolved
- Avoidance of intimacy or a tendency to push your partner away
- A sense of feeling overly dependent or losing your individuality in the relationship
- Choosing partners who feel emotionally unavailable
- Feeling disconnected, even in a committed relationship
- Struggling to navigate past betrayals or misunderstandings
At The Manhattan Psychotherapy Co., we specialize in helping couples navigate the challenges of relationships -- particularly those rooted in attachment styles and anxiety stemming from early-life experiences.
Our goal is to help you and your partner build a healthier, more fulfilling connection by addressing the patterns and pain points that may be holding you back.
When attachment wounds or anxiety influence your relationship, it can feel like the same issues keep resurfacing. You may notice:
Are you and your partner struggling to communicate, trust, or feel truly secure in your relationship? Do unresolved wounds or anxious patterns from past experiences make it hard to feel safe and connected?
Attachment styles often stem from early relationships with caregivers, shaping how we connect with others as adults. While these patterns aren’t chosen, they can influence how we give and receive love, trust, and emotional safety. Couples therapy provides evidence-based tools to help partners shift these patterns and move toward healthier dynamics.
While the contributing factors vary per person, here are some common causes:
Understanding attachment and its impact
Early experiences of loss or separation
Stressful or chaotic home environments
Childhood trauma, including abuse
biological factors such as temperament
traumatic or toxic past relationships
While you can’t change the past, you can address the patterns that no longer serve you and create new ways of connecting with one another. Couples counseling provides a space to identify and understand the deeper dynamics in your relationship, allowing you to improve partnership satisfaction and move forward with greater trust and security.
You and your partner are not defined by the challenges you’re facing. Building a stronger, more connected relationship is possible.
- Relationship Counseling helps you uncover the roots of attachment wounds and understand how they influence your communication, trust, and emotional connection.
- It equips you with tools to regulate your emotions, navigate relationship triggers, strengthen relationship health, and respond to your partner with greater clarity and compassion.
- Therapy also offers an opportunity to heal old wounds, improve communication, establish new patterns of secure connection, and strengthen your ability to show up authentically in your relationship.
How couples counseling helps
start your therapy journey
PREMARITAL COUNSELING
The Manhattan Psychotherapy
Collective provides evidence-based
relationship counseling for a range of relationship issues.
relationships we support
Our therapists work with couples across different stages and circumstances, from navigating the early stages of commitment to working through longstanding patterns in a marriage. Whether you're trying to strengthen your relationship, repair after a difficult period, or determine what you want moving forward, therapy can provide a space to better understand your relationship and one another.
Our therapists work with couples across different stages and circumstances, from navigating the early stages of commitment to working through longstanding patterns in a marriage. Whether you're trying to strengthen your relationship, repair after a difficult period, or determine what you want moving forward, therapy can provide a space to better understand your relationship and one another.
nonmonogamous
traumatic relationships
LIFE TRANSITIONS
LGBTQ+ COUPLES
committed relationships
new parents
marriage counseling
Whether you’re navigating challenges like frequent arguments, emotional distance, or difficulty trusting, couples therapy can offer the tools and support you need to create lasting change.
We address attachment challenges with a whole-body approach, helping you feel safer and more grounded. Your relationship counselor will use personalized techniques, including evidence-based modalities like Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Gottman Couples Method, tailored to your goals and needs.
Our mind-body approach to couples therapy
how we approach relationship issues
Therapy Frameworks
Attachment-focused
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Gottman Couples method
Trauma-focused
Somatic
Psychodynamic
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
More About Katie
Areas of Focus: Anxiety, trauma, premarital and marital concerns, couples therapy, relationship counseling, IPV, family conflict including “adult children of emotionally immature parents”, narcissistic abuse, communication, and boundaries.
Katie Marino, LMHC (she/her)
Our Couples Therapist & Clinical Supervisor
You don’t have to face these struggles alone. Schedule a complimentary consultation with The Manhattan Psychotherapy Co. today to see how we can help you and your partner build a more secure, loving, and resilient relationship.
Is it time to consider working with a couples therapist?
start your therapy journey
