Compassionate Therapy For Real Change
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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.
Counseling for Seniors
As we age, we encounter change and new challenges—grief after the loss of a loved one, health and mobility issues, loneliness, depression, anxiety, shifting family roles, or finding meaning after retirement. It can be a time of loss and uncertainty, but also one ripe with growth and renewed purpose. In counseling for seniors sessions, we explore what matters to you most now and what you want and need to move through this life chapter feeling more fulfilled, connected and at ease.
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Integrating Western Psychotherapy with Eastern Wisdom
Richard Sussman, MSW is a licensed, experienced, and highly respected psychotherapist known for his compassionate warmth and practical insight. With decades in practice, Rich blends Western psychological frameworks with the contemplative practices of Eastern traditions to help individuals and couples navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity, connection and ease. With a grounded, holistic approach, Rich guides clients on a path of healing and personal growth.
A Compassionate Guide for Individuals and Couples
Rich offers therapy that is both clinically grounded and spiritually attuned. In his work with individuals, he offers a compassionate space to explore life’s challenges, whether you’re seeking help with anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem issues, anger, or spiritual exploration. His integrative approach supports clients in developing greater self-understanding, emotional resilience, and a deeper sense of purpose and ease.
Rich has particular expertise in couples therapy and infidelity counseling. Warm, attuned and deeply respected for his therapeutic expertise, Rich is especially skilled at helping partners engage in conscious communication and work through complex issues, such as infidelity, loss of connection, and rebuilding trust. Whether you’re restoring trust, repairing communication, recovering from betrayal, or seeking deeper connection, Rich brings a steady, nonjudgmental presence that fosters healing and growth.
Expert Support for the Journey of Aging
Rich has a particular gift for working with elders as they face the transitions that come with aging. Whether you’re processing loss, confronting loneliness, questioning your purpose, or exploring your spiritual path and mortality, Rich brings wisdom, presence, and care. He creates space for meaningful dialogue around the emotional and existential issues that naturally arise as we age.
An Esteemed Teacher and Therapist
Rich has served as Co-Director of the New Haven Center for Gestalt Therapy and as core faculty at the Gestalt Therapy Center in New York, where he trained and supervised other therapists. His approach honors traditional Western methodologies while gently guiding clients toward a radical shift in awareness—one that reveals the illusory nature of the separate self and opens the door to greater aliveness, spontaneity and peace.
Online and In-Person Therapy Options
Richard Sussman Therapy offers sessions in person at his offices on the Upper West Side of New York City and in Weston, CT. He also provides online therapy for individuals and couples. All counseling is tailored to your unique needs, offering expert guidance, flexibility, and a safe space to heal and grow—whether in person or online.
Begin Your Journey Toward Healing and Connection
Rich provides a rare blend of clinical expertise, lived wisdom, and spiritual insight. His presence is steady, kind and deeply attuned. Whether you’re struggling in your relationship, seeking to better understand yourself, or facing a major life transition, Rich is here to support your growth. With his warm, integrative approach, you’ll find not only relief from suffering, but a path toward deeper meaning and connection.
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Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you have.
email: richardsussmantherapy@gmail.com
phone: (212) 874-9402
I look forward to hearing from you!