Offering Telehealth Sessions Only

Finding Your Way Back to Each Other — Compassionate Couples Therapy

Warm, evidence-based support for couples and individuals seeking deeper connection, trust, and healing.

Welcome!

Hello.

Life isn’t always easy. Even the strongest among us sometimes need support to navigate life’s more challenging moments. If you’re here, you likely know how much your relationship matters — and how painful it feels when connection fades, trust is broken, or old wounds keep resurfacing despite your best efforts.

You may be facing the heartbreak of infidelity, the weight of unmet expectations, the lingering effects of emotionally abusive or narcissistic dynamics, or longstanding attachment injuries that began years earlier — sometimes in childhood with parents or caregivers. You might also simply feel the quiet distance and loneliness that can grow between two people who once felt close. Whatever brings you here, you don’t have to face it alone.

I provide warm, research-supported couples therapy using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and the Gottman Method, as well as individual therapy using Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). These approaches help us gently uncover the protective patterns and emotional cycles that keep you stuck, while creating new experiences of safety, trust, and connection — at a pace that respects your nervous system and the realities of your life.

Many of the people I work with are balancing demanding careers, shift work, parenting, or the everyday pressures that make it hard to prioritize emotional well-being. That is why all sessions are offered exclusively through secure telehealth for clients in New Jersey and Illinois. You can receive meaningful, high-quality support without adding another commute to an already full schedule.

How I Can Help

I specialize in helping individuals and couples with a range of relational and emotional concerns, including:

  • Rebuilding trust and healing after infidelity or betrayal
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples who want to break negative cycles and restore closeness
  • Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for personal healing and stronger self-worth
  • Recovering from narcissistic or emotionally abusive relationship patterns
  • Processing attachment injuries, including those rooted in childhood experiences
  • Strengthening emotional and physical intimacy
  • Navigating separation, divorce, or major relationship transitions
  • LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy for individuals and couples

My style is collaborative, non-judgmental, and grounded in the belief that lasting change becomes possible when people feel safe enough to be vulnerable. Whether you are coming to therapy as a couple or on your own, the goal is the same: to help you move from pain and disconnection toward greater clarity, resilience, and connection.

Ready to Take the Next Step?

You don’t have to keep carrying this alone. A complimentary 20-minute consultation is a simple, no-pressure way to begin exploring whether we are a good fit to work together.

About Michelle Szekely

I’m Michelle Szekely, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist offering compassionate couples therapy and individual therapy through secure telehealth for clients in New Jersey and Illinois.

I specialize in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for individuals. These research-supported approaches help people heal attachment injuries, rebuild trust after betrayal, recover from emotionally harmful relationship patterns, and create deeper emotional safety and connection.

Before becoming a therapist, I worked in clinical research development in corporate America. That experience gives me a practical understanding of the pressures many professionals face when trying to balance demanding careers with their most important relationships. At the same time, I hold deep compassion for the realities of shift work, financial stress, and the everyday challenges that can strain even the strongest bonds.

Whether you are seeking support as a couple or on your own, my goal is to offer a safe, non-judgmental space where real change becomes possible.


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