For over 25 years, I have practiced couples and family therapy, discernment counseling, and collaborative divorce in New York City. Providing a safe environment to communicate and express emotions, as well as the tools for building healthy, meaningful interactions, I’m here to help all involved get on a path to happier and more fulfilling relationships.
For over 25 years, I have practiced couples and family therapy, discernment counseling, and collaborative divorce in New York City. Providing a safe environment to communicate and express emotions, as well as the tools for building healthy, meaningful interactions, I’m here to help all involved get on a path to happier and more fulfilling relationships.
For most people, a loving and supportive primary romantic relationship is one of the biggest factors contributing to personal fulfillment. Yet many married or long-term partners struggle to attain relationship nirvana. Instead, they find themselves languishing in lonely or disconnected relationships.
Fighting that can’t be resolved, growing apart, distance, and strained intimacy; these are the issues that most often bring couples into therapy. Without blaming or finger pointing we explore how you got here, what’s keeping you stuck, and how to move through the stages of a relationship redesign from Volatility to Versatility, Distance to Connection, and Avoidance to Intimacy.
Family therapy is a powerful process that doesn’t single one person out. Instead, it examines the family as an ecosystem where one person’s actions can create a new dynamic for the whole. During family therapy, members learn how to redesign their relationships to foster stronger connections, build better communication skills, navigate crises, and create more harmony in the home.
Family therapy can be helpful at any stage in the life cycle.
Discernment Counseling is a process that helps clarify a direction for your relationship. When one person is leaning out, thinking the marriage is over and heading for divorce, and the other person is leaning in, still invested and trying to save the marriage, it’s likely that as a couple you’re experiencing a standstill and feeling stuck. Discernment Counseling is a short-term process that helps couples decide on a path for moving forward, be it together or apart.
When you’ve finally decided to call it quits, you need support to transition your union from that of a romantic couple to “business partners” and co-parents. And when divorcing couples have children together, many critical decisions will need to be made in order to spare the children unnecessary emotional trauma. Collaborative divorce aims to see you through the emotional turmoil of divorce and make uncoupling as civil and amicable as possible.
It’s a classic — the flurry of calls to my office in January from couples who feel their relationship is really strained – or even
I often hear from couples that they are reluctant to begin couples therapy because really, their relationship is good or even great 90% of the
They enter my office, nervous and uncertain as many couples do during a first visit—he is trying to smile and break the ice; she is
As Seen In
Tracy Ross, LCSW is an NYC-based counselor with a nationwide practice, who has helped couples and families for over 20 years to redesign their relationships and move them from volatility to versatility: from a state of breakdown to a new relationship in which all can thrive.
© Tracy Ross, LCSW.