Richard Sussman

Specializing in Marital Issues, Divorce, Separation and Affair Recovery

 

Now Accepting United Healthcare Insurance

Affair Recovery

For four decades I’ve specialized in healing marriages and relationships, with a speciality in infidelity. In therapy, both you and your partner have a safe space and the compassionate guidance needed to understand, navigate and process the hard and heated emotions that arise from affairs. Moving through judgment and blame, I help you express feelings in a genuine way, healing feelings of guilt, heartbreak and betrayal while moving toward forgiveness and relationship repair.

Couples Therapy

Relationships are hard and take work, no couple is immune to challenges, and there are times when working with a highly experienced and effective couples therapist can be helpful and even necessary. Couples counseling helps you and your partner begin communicating productively, with both of you feeling heard and understood. Once you both learn how to share and listen with openness and empathy, you can improve all aspects of your relationship.

Individual Therapy

We all experience difficulties in relationships and life that affect our emotional and mental health. If you’re struggling to access joy, decrease anxiety, or find passion and purpose, counseling with a skilled therapist can help you reframe negative perceptions and suffering into positive fulfillment. As you shift perspective and move in acceptance, pain naturally begins to dissipate, healing accelerates, energy increases and space opens up to create long-lasting positive change.

Anxiety Treatment

Anxiety is one of the most common mental health issues in America. Yet, with a skilled anxiety therapist, it is also managed and even overcome. In anxiety therapy sessions, I help you slow down and gently lean into racing thoughts and uncomfortable emotions and body sensations with mindful awareness, rather than continuing to resist, which only exacerbates anxiety symptoms. With new skills and perspective, you can understand and befriend anxiety, feeling more at ease, happy and productive.

Depression Treatment

Depression is a heavy, lonely and debilitating experience that affects millions of Americans. As a skilled depression therapist, I’m here to help you explore, understand and reframe any negative beliefs, stories and thoughts fueling the depression so you can begin to reconnect with your inherent aliveness. Through depression therapy, a new perspective can emerge, helping you manage challenging thoughts and flow through difficult emotions while learning how to manage depression symptoms in healthy, effective ways.

Anger Therapy

Anger is a natural emotion, however, many have a difficult time expressing it in healthy and productive ways, becoming highly reactive, living with heightened stress and likely experiencing problems in relationships. In anger management therapy, I help you get to the root of anger issues and develop skilled ways to manage, release and express anger and other difficult emotions, which can lead to a more productive and peaceful way of living and improve all aspects of your life.

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Hello! I’m Richard

Licensed Psychotherapist

After being married for almost 40 years and raising two children, Richard knows firsthand the difficulties and struggles that so many of us face. He is highly accepting of people and acts in basic goodness. Perhaps that is why he has gained a well-respected reputation for effective couples counseling in NYC.

You don’t have to continue to navigate this challenging time on your own. Whether you’re struggling in relationships, through an infidelity or with depression, anxiety, anger or self-esteem issues, Richard can help. With the right therapist and approach, a willingness to self-explore and the desire to change thinking patterns, you can let go of blame, shame and guilt and experience joy and satisfaction in all aspects of your life.

Richard Sussman Therapy offers expert guidance and support for couples seeking online counseling in NYC. With decades of experience and a compassionate approach, Richard specializes in online counseling for relationship issues. As a trusted therapist serving the Upper West Side of NYC, Richard provides online couple counseling services tailored to each couple’s unique needs.

Whether you’re facing challenges in your relationship, dealing with infidelity, or struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, or self-esteem issues, Richard can help. Through online couple therapy sessions, Richard empowers couples to explore their emotions, communicate effectively, and cultivate healthier relationship dynamics.

Don’t navigate these difficulties alone. Reach out to Richard Sussman Therapy today for personalized online counseling for couples in NYC.

 

For decades, Richard Sussman has been helping couples with his unique approach to therapy, which integrates Western psychology and Eastern spiritual traditions. Richard treats a wide variety of couples issue with a special emphasis on healing relationship problems and marital infidelity counseling on the Upper West Side of NYC.

Richard has served as the Co-Director of the New Haven Center for Gestalt Therapy and was a core faculty member of the Gestalt Therapy Center in New York, where he trained and supervised professional practitioners. Rich treats a wide variety of issues, including anxiety, depression, guilt, grief, and self-esteem problems, with a special emphasis on healing relationship problems and marital infidelity.

While Rich honors traditional Western therapeutic methodologies, which focus on treating the “symptoms” of the self, his work ultimately exposes the illusory nature of that very self, opening up a radical shift in awareness and identity. This facilitates a deeper sense of freedom, aliveness and spontaneity.

Richard Sussman Therapy offers expert guidance and support for couples seeking online counseling in NYC. With decades of experience and a compassionate approach, Richard specializes in online counseling for relationship issues. As a trusted therapist serving the Upper West Side of NYC, Richard provides online couple counseling services tailored to each couple’s unique needs.

Whether you’re facing challenges in your relationship, dealing with infidelity, or struggling with depression, anxiety, guilt, or self-esteem issues, Richard can help. Through online couple therapy sessions, Richard empowers couples to explore their emotions, communicate effectively, and cultivate healthier relationship dynamics.

Don’t navigate these difficulties alone. Reach out to Richard Sussman Therapy today for personalized online counseling for couples in NYC.

My Expertise and Approach

Richard Sussman, LCSW

I’ve always felt compelled to help people. Even at a young age, I was far more interested in how the mind, emotions, and body work together than I was in business or money. I love helping people cultivate awareness and self-love, live in the present, and turn breakdowns into breakthroughs. We can never be anywhere but in the here and now, although the majority of us dwell in the past or worry about the future. Once we recognize that the present truly is a present, let go of resistance, and understand that each individual is essentially a beautiful expression of being, it becomes possible to live free of blame, shame, and guilt and enjoy a more joyful, productive, and fulfilling life. Helping my clients get to this state of being is a deep pleasure for me.

Richard Sussman therapy emphasizes the importance of effective communication in relationships. As a therapist serving the Upper West Side of NYC, Richard specializes in online counseling for couples in NYC. Through online couple counseling services, Richard helps couples navigate challenges and improve communication skills, fostering stronger and healthier relationships.

In online couple therapy sessions, Richard empowers couples to express their feelings openly and authentically. Whether you’re seeking online counseling for relationship issues or online couple therapy in NYC, Richard provides personalized guidance and support to help couples reconnect and thrive.

Don’t let communication barriers hinder your relationship. Reach out to Richard Sussman Therapy today for expert online couple counseling services in NYC.

Testimonials

“After twenty-five years together, our marriage was nearly over when we decided to seek couples counseling with Richard Sussman. Now it’s been fifteen years since Richard’s help, and our relationship and love have healed and we are happier and more fulfilled than ever before.”

-B.G.
Westport, CT

”We have worked with Richard Sussman and have found him to be extremely empathic and intelligent. He is patient, caring, insightful, creative and knowledgeable, and has decades of expertise in his field. ”

Jessica & Ron – Couple: Age 34 & 38

I have been working with Richard for almost 10 years and it’s hard to find words to articulate just how highly I regard this man. He is an expert at showing sincere compassion while simultaneously holding me accountable for my “stuff”. I’ve worked with him through couples counseling, divorce, recovery from divorce, remarriage, blended family issues, everything else that comes up, and there has never been a time where I haven’t felt that I was in the best possible hands. That “junk in junk out” experience that many people have during therapy doesn’t fly with Richard. He’s as real as they get and pushes you to be too. Quite simply, he’s the BEST! ”

Amy Fein

Contact Me

Take the first step in healing your relationship.  Feel free to reach out to me so I can answer any questions you may have.

email: richardsussmantherapy@gmail.com
phone: (212) 874-9402 

I look forward to hearing from you!

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