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COUPLES COUNSELING, COUPLES THERAPY, MARRIAGE COUNSELING, SEX THERAPY, pre-marital counseling, pre-marriage coaching, and solution-focused relationship counseling in New York City and World-Wide

WELCOME !

The various forms of couples counseling, marriage counseling, couples therapy, sex therapy, pre-marriage counseling and couples anger management are especially effective when using the medication-free methods and holistic concepts of natural psychotherapy.

So whether your problems are minor, moderate, or severe, the Couples Counseling Center of Drs. Eric and Miriam Riss, can help you.

Natural and holistic relationship counseling, couples therapy, and marriage counseling will make it possible for you to find the most constructive and realistic solutions. Solutions that work and that are truly in your best interest!

TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT to find such positive solutions please click here, or just phone us: 212-988-4700  or  212-737-7683.

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BUILDING LOVE, TRUST AND JOY

The focus of this holistic treatment and therapy is to seek - honestly and gently - new perspectives and new ways of interaction in order to build (or re-build) love, trust and joy in the couple's ways of relating. 

And the building of love, trust, joy and spiritual closeness is, of course, important and focused on in natural therapy whether the individuals in the relationship are straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.

Whether a couple is living together or separately, unmarried, or married for a short or long time, without children, or with children and family - love, trust, intimacy and joy are what it's all about. 

Differences in life-styles, as well as multi-cultural, multi-national, multi-religious issues often interfere in couple interaction.  They may interfere with mutual respect, and with mutual acceptance of each other's unique ways of thinking and doing things.

Therefore, in natural couples counseling such differences are always treated constructively - as sources of mutual enrichment and mutual inspiration rather than as sources of conflict.

Religious differences, conflicts and problems that couples may have are creatively resolved for all major faiths:  Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Humanist, Atheist, etc. 

At the Marriage Counseling and Couples Therapy Center your issues are dealt with in solution-focused ways: 

The pluses and minuses of traditional marriage, gay marriage, open and polyamorous marriage, as well as issues of family interaction and anger management problems are always gently explored. And, once understood, they are effectively resolved by means of problem-solving, creative and practical approaches.

FOR CONTACT INFORMATION for effective Couples Counseling and Marriage Counseling please click here.

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WHAT IS ALWAYS INCLUDED

In order to develop and maintain LOVE, TRUST, INTIMACY and JOY in the relationship, the following are always included:  

Sex therapy, stress management, anger management, relationship therapy, cognitive therapy, conflict resolution, communication improvement and intimacy enhancement.

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THE  SEXUALLY AND SPIRITUALLY CLOSE JOYFUL LIFE

As couples start achieving true caring for themselves as well as the other, they become able to bring long-term joyful closeness and spiritual communion into their lives.

In-depth and wide-ranging holistic natural sex therapy works in the following ways: 

Sexual passion and erotic excitement which may have died due to inner resentments, anger or guilt, come alive again. 

Sexual conflicts, sexual inhibitions, sexual addictions, compulsions and obsessions are always dealt with in constructive ways. And as they come to be understood, they can become resolved through sex counseling and holistic natural sex therapy.

Sexual attraction and erotic excitement return or get awakened for the first time.

Sex ceases to be a source of tension and conflict and becomes a source of mutual joy!

And, mutual sexual attraction, joyful intimacy, and spiritual closeness not only stay, but grow and become more and more exciting!

Find out how, through natural sex therapy, you can successfully resolve your sexual and relationship issues;  how both of you can actually develop, and learn to maintain, a deeply satisfying life with each other!

TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT, please click here.

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HOW DO NATURAL COUPLES COUNSELING AND COUPLES THERAPY ACTUALLY WORK?

1)  THEY BRING GREATER AWARENESS AND NEW WAYS:

The natural approaches of couples counseling and marital therapy, pre-marital counseling, marriage counseling and family therapy include becoming aware of and then learning how to:

(1) give up old, automatic and destructive false beliefs, habits, and viewpoints

and

(2) substitute creative, realistic and positive ways of thinking,  behaving and communicating.

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The main aims of a natural and holistic psychotherapist, couples counselor, marriage counselor, sex therapist or family therapist are to help each person achieve inner emotional balance and also balance in one's interactions with others.

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NEW WAYS OF RELATING

In natural therapy, most couples and families with relationship problems - even the most severe and distressing - learn how to make actual positive changes in their interactions and how to actually develop new ways of relating to each other: 

In relationship therapy they learn why it is always important to be both honest and kind to each other!

And in order to be able to achieve such interaction, they learn how to consistently:

 Communicate clearly, calmly and honestly

and

Regularly (i.e. 24/7) be very loving, very gentle, and consistently kind to each other!

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2)  NATURAL COUPLES THERAPY and MARRIAGE COUNSELING ALSO INCLUDE EFFECTIVE RESOLUTION OF PERSONAL ISSUES:

Emotionally charged, personal issues and negative habits that may interfere with good interactions can also be explored AND RESOLVED through individual, personal psychotherapy sessions, in addition to the joint couples or family sessions. 

For such individual therapy sessions please click here.

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In natural and holistic couples therapy or pre-marital counseling each person learns how to develop new perspectives and increase constructive styles of living with each other. 

In these very positive and practical treatments of relationship and marital problems each person learns how to maintain her or his individuality while moving from the concept of just "I" to the new concept of "We."

Couples start to give up, often constant, fighting and arguing and learn how to substitute calm communication and productive problem solving.

Each person learns how to take the perspective of the other and enhance the capacity to make joint, practical decisions that consider and respect one's own desires as well as the desires of the other.

And also, on matters that concern both partners, unilateral decisions are abandoned as rational, creative and joint decision-making becomes the regular way.

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3)  The FOCUS in all couples therapy and all marriage counseling at the Center is ON THE PRESENT and ON THE ABSENCE OF BLAME:

In natural holistic therapy couples find out - often, for the first time - how liberating it is to give up regret, blame and emotional outbursts.

They learn how to become truly honest and intimate with each other:  how to relate to each other lovingly and calmly in the here and now: 

Without emotional regrets over a past that cannot be changed, worry about a future that is always unknown, or adherence to an imaginary ideal in the present that is unrealistic.

4) GIVING UP PERFECTIONISM:

In natural couples therapy and marital therapy both learn how to give up perfectionism and actually not to worry at all when they make mistakes!

In fact, in this effective relationship therapy they discover the benefits of learning from mistakes, rather than becoming upset by mistakes.

And most important, they learn to welcome awareness of mistakes and faults in oneself or one's partner, since such awareness is always an opportunity for constructive change and growth.

By engaging in this constructive treatment of their relationship they learn how to focus on and actually practice positive and mutually satisfying actions in the present.

***They practice stopping three habits that have caused them so much suffering and grief: regret, worry, and blame of self or blame of others.***

All couples - whether straight or LGBT - learn and then practice how to resolve their common relationship problems in the most effective and most practical ways.

As a result of natural therapy's emphasis on not expecting perfection in themselves or their partner, as well as on being loving in the present, they discover how they can actually attain and maintain a caring, intimate, and erotically enriching and an exciting long-term relationship with each other!

5)  SCHEDULING an APPOINTMENT for holistic COUPLES THERAPY, COUPLES COUNSELING, SEX THERAPY, MARRIAGE COUNSELING and FAMILY THERAPY:

         To schedule an effective couples counseling and couples therapy session just click here.

(For more general information about natural, holistic psychotherapy, please click here.)

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