Couples Therapy · NYC
Stop arguing about
the argument.
Private couples therapy at 303 Fifth Avenue for partners who keep having the same fight, and want to understand what it is really about.
Select virtual appointments are available where clinically and legally appropriate.
The pattern
It’s rarely about
the dishes.
Most couples don’t come in with a hundred problems. They come in with one pattern that shows up a hundred ways.
One partner pursues, the other withdraws. One raises a concern, the other defends. The topic changes; the system doesn’t.
We help you see the pattern you are both caught in, and what each of you can change within it, rather than deciding who is right.
What we work on
Why couples begin.
Couples come to therapy at every stage: early, married for decades, deciding whether to stay. Some of the most common reasons:
Communication and conflict
The same argument on repeat, or conversations that escalate before anything gets resolved.
Resentment and disconnection
Feeling more like roommates or business partners than a couple.
Infidelity
Understanding what happened, and deciding what comes next, together or apart.
Sex, intimacy and desire discrepancy
When one partner wants more, or different, and both feel stuck.
Parenthood
The strain of becoming parents, raising children and losing track of each other.
Major transitions
Moves, career changes, illness, loss and the pressure they put on a relationship.
For sexual concerns in particular, learn about sex therapy.
The approach
Not a referee.
We don’t take sides, and we don’t keep score.
Couples therapy at Boutique Psychotherapy is grounded in The Blau Method™ and in differentiation: the capacity to stay close to your partner without losing yourself, and to tolerate disagreement without treating it as a threat.
You will each be understood, and you will each be asked to look at your own part. Sessions are direct and goal-oriented, with specific work to practice between them.
303 Fifth Avenue · New York City
In person,
in Manhattan.
Couples sessions take place in our private office at 303 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
Select virtual appointments are available where clinically and legally appropriate.
The clinical team
Carefully selected.
Personally trained.
Boutique Psychotherapy is intentionally small.
Every clinician is selected under the clinical direction of Dr. Carli Blau and trained in the philosophy and clinical framework of The Blau Method™.
You already know
something needs to change.
Let’s determine what.