Couples Therapy Services

Long Island, NY | In-Person and Virtual Therapy

When your relationship feels like it’s slipping through your fingers, we help you hold on

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You’ve been trying, talking, arguing, and avoiding, but nothing seems to break the cycle. The same disconnect. The same distance. The same silence. And now, you’re tired. Hurt. Wondering if you’ve lost each other for good.

If you feel unheard, emotionally distant, or overwhelmed by unresolved conflict, you're not alone. Most couples don’t come to therapy because they’ve failed. They come because they’re ready for something to change.

At Heart in Mind Psychotherapy, we help couples on Long Island, NY, reconnect. Our approach combines compassion, clarity, and practical tools that last, guiding partners back to one another with understanding and support.

Benefits of Couples Therapy

When you begin Couples Therapy on Long Island, you’re not just talking about problems, you’re actively creating space for something better to emerge.

Our work together can help you:

  • Communicate with more honesty and less blame

  • Understand each other’s needs without getting stuck in defense or retreat

  • Rebuild emotional and physical intimacy that may have felt lost

  • Navigate disagreements with more ease through healthy conflict resolution

  • Experience more clarity, relief, and confidence about your future together

  • Restore a sense of joy, lightness, and connection

Whether you’re recovering from betrayal or just feeling the weight of growing apart, therapy creates a path back to a renewed relationship—grounded in truth, vulnerability, and mutual care.

Why relationship support matters

Even the strongest relationships can be impacted by the invisible weight of stress, transitions, and emotional wounds. When those pressures go unspoken or unresolved, they often show up as emotional disconnection, quiet resentment, or tension that’s hard to name.

Through relationship counseling, we help couples recognize that what they’re experiencing isn’t a personal failure, it’s a natural response to disconnection, fear, or unmet needs.

This support is especially valuable when you’re navigating:

  • Major life changes (parenting, career shifts, caregiving)

  • Lingering hurt from past arguments or betrayals

  • Unspoken doubts, comparisons, or unmet expectations

  • Persistent tension or relationship anxiety about the future

You don’t need to wait until things fall apart to seek support. Often, the earlier you reach out, the more there is to build on.

Common relationship challenges we help with

Every couple struggles—what matters is how you work through it together. In our couples therapy, we help couples identify and shift the patterns that keep them stuck in pain, silence, or distance.

Here are some of the most common issues we help couples navigate:

  • Recurring fights that never truly resolve

  • Avoiding difficult conversations out of fear or fatigue

  • Feeling emotionally neglected, dismissed, or unheard

  • Growing apart, losing that sense of closeness or fun

  • Lack of affection or intimacy that once felt natural

  • Unresolved conflict around parenting, priorities, or past hurt

  • Breaches of trust, whether from dishonesty, secrecy, or infidelity

  • Power struggles and the exhaustion of never being on the same page

  • Disconnection related to ineffective conflict resolution

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How we can help couples

At Heart in Mind, we don’t just guide you through talking, we help you truly understand one another again. Our approach to Couples Therapy blends insight with action, emotion with strategy, and warmth with clear boundaries.

In our work together, you can expect:

  • A safe space where both partners are heard, respected, and engaged

  • Direct but compassionate feedback to help shift destructive patterns

  • Support in re-establishing emotional closeness through intimacy counseling

  • Tools to rebuild your relationship with more honesty, collaboration, and calm

  • Room for laughter, grief, growth, and real repair—not just surface fixes

Whether your relationship is in crisis or simply off course, we’re here to help you find a new way forward, together.

Our approach to Couples Therapy

At Heart in Mind Psychotherapy, we specialize in helping partners navigate the complex terrain of relationships with warmth, skill, and compassion on Long Island, New York.

We use proven modalities like the Gottman Method, Relational Life Therapy, and attachment-based therapy, offering a balanced and emotionally grounded approach to therapy for you and your partner.

Both of you are supported in showing up fully. You’ll experience a collaborative process that invites honesty, healing, and movement at a pace that feels right for you.

Whether you're feeling stuck, unsure, or simply ready to grow together, therapy for couples at Heart in Mind is designed to support your relationship from the inside out. We offer in-person counselling on Long Island or virtual couples therapy in New York for your convenience.

Begin Couples Therapy on Long Island today

If you're tired of the tension, the distance, or just feeling stuck, it's time for something different.

Through Couples Therapy on Long Island, we help you move beyond surface fixes to create lasting, meaningful change. Whether you're navigating trust wounds, communication issues, or simply wanting a renewed relationship, you don’t have to do it alone.

Schedule your first session of therapy for couples at Heart in Mind Psychotherapy.

FAQs about Couples Therapy

  • You’ll both have space to share what brought you in. It’s a relaxed, no-pressure conversation designed to help you feel supported and seen. We’ll clarify your goals and begin shaping the path forward through Couples Therapy in Long Island.

  • Yes. Whether you’re dealing with communication breakdowns, infidelity, or just feeling disconnected, we’ve worked with couples facing similar struggles, and helped them reconnect, repair, and move forward.

  •  Most couples begin with weekly sessions. The timeline varies depending on your goals and needs. We’ll check in regularly and adjust based on your progress.

  • Unfortunately, couples therapy is not covered by insurance. We operate on a private-pay basis. This gives us more freedom to offer therapy that’s truly tailored to your relationship, not limited by insurance constraints, which often don’t cover couples-specific therapy.

  • That’s okay. You can start alone, and we’ll support you in navigating that dynamic. Often, just one partner stepping in can begin to shift things. We also address therapy for relationship anxiety and ambivalence within the process itself.

Let us meet you where you are

No pressure. No commitment. We are here to meet you exactly where you are, whether you’re ready to start therapy or have questions. We offer in-person and virtual therapy on Long Island and in the state of New York.