Joshua Nelson, LCSW, LMFT

About

I am a marriage counselor with over 35 years experience helping couples to communicate better, resolve differences and rekindle the connection you once had.

Story

Fighting endlessly? Getting into major blow ups? Missing the old warmth and affection? Don´t wait until it´s too late. I can help you to get out of the negative patterns you´re stuck in and rediscover the love and passion you once had. I have over 30 years of experience helping couples to communicate better, resolve conflict productively, and renew their love.

As a couples and marriage therapist, I have found that couples get stuck in certain patterns with each other. Your reaction to a certain interaction will provoke a reaction in your partner and their reaction will provoke another reaction in you. This pattern of reaction and counter-reaction often becomes repetitive and plays itself out regardless of what you´re talking about. I can help you to see how you´re reacting back and forth or “dancing” emotionally with each other. Once you see the dance, and what´s being triggered between you, you´ll be better able to handle and eventually change it.

In counseling, I try to help you identify and give you the language to explain your feelings about your partner. Not every feeling that you or your partner has will be legitimate or appropriate.We all overreact at times. But I don´t believe that it´s possible to figure out if you´re overreacting on your own. just by considering it. You have to first feel a feeling, express it, sit with it, marinate in it, go through it in order to figure out if it´s grounded in reality or an overreaction due to your childhood issues (which we also all have to some extent). I try to create safety in my room so that you can become more open, transparent and authentic with each other and see if that leads to better communication and connection.

I offer the following services in Brooklyn, New York City: pre-marital counseling, couples therapy, marriage counseling, family therapy, relationship counseling, and individual therapy. Please feel free to call, email me, or fill out the contact form on my website.