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TWICE MONTHLY GROUP - meets Wednesdays 10.30am -12.00pm

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Working with Sexuality in Couples and Individuals

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In my work with couples my goal is to normalize endless conflict cycles, and point couples to a more generative and connected life together.  

In this group we will focus on

•    Many different approaches to helping couples work towards bringing out the best in each other, and surviving the worst in their partner and in their own self.

•    Helping couples develop empathy for their own defensive practices and for the defensive strategies used by the partner.

•    Learn to focus in on vitality, playfulness, complexity and acceptance.

•    Learn to base interventions on enhancing eroticism, creativity, humor and joy in couples.

•    Develop a comfort to speak directly about sexuality.

 

We will learn to integrate 

•    A psychoanalytic understanding of unconscious process.

•    The use of IFS as a tool for insight, healing, witnessing and reconnecting to a calmer, centered self.

•    A perspective that contextualizes relational patterns in the socio –political, cultural, economic and racial realities in which couples live.

•    An in-depth understanding of sexuality, and the central role of sexuality in the life of a couple and the self.

•    The use of narrative techniques to facilitate lasting change

 

If you are interested, please respond to me: avivagitlin@gmail.com

I am happy to answer questions about the group.

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 “As a supervisor, Dr. Gitlin permanently shaped the way I see and work with my clients. Her guidance was always warm, personal and deeply knowledgeable. She has a magical way of providing structure to keep you grounded and safe, as well as space for you to explore and develop your own style.”

Lina Q. Perl, PsyD

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Aviva Gitlin Psy.D is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice for 20 years. She teaches and supervises at WCSPP -Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy- where she also serves, as is the chair of the curriculum committee for the psychoanalytic programs.  Dr. Gitlin has trained as a couples therapist and sexuality therapist, with Esther Perel.