Richard Sussman

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.

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.

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 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.