Marcia Kesner

PhD, LPC, LMHC

Online appointments: ☏ 718-391-4608
Providing therapy for the frum community

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Couples therapy

couples therapy in brooklynCouples therapy can help you recover your relationship. It’s not uncommon for couples to have trouble communicating, feel lonely, or feel disconnected within a marriage or long-term relationship.

Sometimes, as a couple, you can just get stuck. If you are having the same argument over and over, in couples therapy you may be able to break the pattern. Instead of repeating the responses that just make you feel frustrated, you can learn to get along better, to work together more effectively as parents, to trust each other more, and to achieve greater intimacy.

What you can expect in couples therapy

Marcia Kesner uses techniques to help you understand yourself better, and to help you understand yourself. You can each learn to understand your spouse’s vulnerabilities and emotional needs so that you can be more supportive of each other.

  • Create a more fulfilling and nurturing relationship
  • Discover shared goals
  • Break negative patterns by making small but significant changes
  • Increase intimacy and respect
  • Increase satisfaction in and from the relationship
  • Honest and open communication

We can set up a therapy plan that meets your needs. You will learn how to manage challenges and disagreements without Marcia. The listening skills and empathy skills that you learn in therapy will help you navigate the challenges that life and time present.

Learn how to disagree, and how to make your spouse feel loved

You can argue and disagree in a respectful and constructive way. You can learn to make room to hear your spouse’s needs and learn how to express your own needs. You can learn how to state your needs in a way that your spouse can hear.

In therapy, you and your spouse can learn practical ways to give and receive love and appreciation. You and your spouse can move towards feeling loved, appreciated, and feeling taken care of.

You will take away from therapy sessions practical skills that you can apply at home right away to start improving your relationship:

  • Reveal yourselves to each other and increase intimacy
  • Learn to understand each other’s emotional needs
  • Learn positive, healthy ways to deal with conflict

Take the first step towards a better relationship

Marcia Kesner provides couples therapy in Brooklyn and online for the frum community. To learn more or arrange an appointment, call her now or just fill out the contact form and click Send.

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