Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
People enter my practice for one common reason: to enhance the quality of their lives.
Contrary to certain myths, therapy is not for people who are “deranged”, “messed up”, “weird” or are unable to contribute to society. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Therapy serves as a positive medium which allows people to develop a deeper understanding of themselves in our increasingly complex world, so that they may make productive decisions which lead to their own personal happiness.
Through the work we do together, people redesign their lives and emerge with a powerful sense of self, and as a result, the ability to enjoy life in a most rich and meaningful way.
Individual Therapy
I work closely with individuals to explore and understand personal inner dynamics by examining their unique experiences.
Couples Therapy
My specialized skills in Couples Counseling are designed not only to help my patients establish a healthy couple relationship.
Family Therapy
When treating individuals, couples and families in therapy, I use what is known as the “family systems theory”.
Patti Kaleck German, M.Ed., LMFT
Trained at Penn Council for Relationships under the auspices of the Departments of Psychiatry of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Jefferson Medical College.
Finding Answers to Healthier Living
My focus, expertise and specialization is in the dysfunctional interpersonal relationships of individuals, among couples and within families, including parent/child involvement and sibling interaction. My work helps explore the familial patterns, inhibitions and legacies that contribute to impaired functioning, building insights that encourage change. This change will, generally, create adjustments that reverberate within the entire family, work or relationship system. Many who require direction in their lives, or have experienced failed or unfulfilling relationships – yet yearn for a gratifying one – continue to find tremendous success through their work with me. Couples desiring enhanced communication, a deepening of intimacy or, conversely, need help in preparing for separation or adjusting to divorce also learn to recreate a perspective on life based on a deeper understanding of their true motivation.
All tell me they “find my warmth and empathy” a significant contributing force in their healing process.
Relationship Challenges & Life Transitions
Life brings changes, challenges, and transitions that can affect the way we feel about ourselves and our relationships.
You may be struggling with a major life change, feeling disconnected from the people around you, questioning the direction your life is taking, or finding yourself repeating patterns that no longer serve you.
Therapy provides a place to slow down, gain perspective, and better understand yourself, your relationships, and the experiences that have shaped you.
Together, we can explore what is happening, identify what you would like to change, and work toward creating a life that feels more meaningful, connected, and fulfilling.
Patti German Counseling
The San Remo
146 Central Park West 1D
New York, NY 10023
Office: (212) 582-6056
Mobile: (917) 923-1038
Email: mft33@aol.com
When to Seek Individual Therapy
Individual therapy can be helpful when you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about how to move forward. You may be struggling with anxiety, stress, self-doubt, relationship concerns, or difficult life transitions. Therapy provides a supportive space to better understand what you're experiencing, develop new perspectives, and identify patterns that may be keeping you from feeling fulfilled.
You don't need to wait for a crisis to seek individual therapy. Sometimes, reaching out for support is simply a way to gain greater self-awareness, strengthen your relationships, and make meaningful changes in your life.
People seek individual therapy for many different reasons. Sometimes there is a specific problem that feels urgent. At other times, there is simply a growing sense that something in life is not working as well as you would like. You may feel stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward.
Individual therapy can be helpful when you are struggling with depression, sadness, loneliness, anxiety, or feeling overwhelmed. It can also be a place to explore difficulties in relationships, major life transitions, questions about your direction or purpose, or patterns of behavior that you would like to understand and change.
You may also seek individual therapy when you find yourself repeating patterns that leave you feeling stuck or dissatisfied, even though you want something to be different. Therapy can provide an opportunity to slow down, understand these patterns more deeply, and consider new ways of responding.
Individual therapy can also be a place to better understand yourself—your emotions, your needs, your strengths, and the ways you have learned to relate to others. By developing greater awareness and understanding, you can begin to make choices that feel more intentional and aligned with the person you want to be.
Therapy can be especially helpful during times of transition or uncertainty. Changes in work, family, relationships, or other areas of life can bring up questions about who you are, what you want, and how you want to move forward. Therapy offers a space to slow down, reflect, and find greater clarity.
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My specialized skills in Couples Counseling are designed not only to help my patients establish a healthy couple relationship.
• low self-esteem
• parenting
• life transitions
• stress management
• getting along with others
• abuse
• workplace issues
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
--Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
Couples Therapy
When a relationship becomes difficult, it can be hard to know how to move forward.
You may find yourselves having the same arguments over and over, struggling to communicate, feeling emotionally or physically distant, or wondering whether your relationship can become the relationship you once hoped it would be.
Couples therapy provides a place to slow things down, understand what is happening between you, and begin to make meaningful changes in the relationship.
My work with couples focuses on helping partners communicate more openly, listen more deeply, understand each other's experiences, and develop healthier and more functional ways of responding to one another.
We look not only at the immediate conflict, but also at the patterns and experiences that may be contributing to the difficulties in your relationship.
Together, we explore the ways each partner communicates, responds to conflict, seeks closeness, and protects themselves when they feel hurt, threatened, misunderstood, or disconnected.
Sometimes intention does not match impact. You may not intend to hurt, dismiss, control, or distance yourself from your partner, yet your partner may experience your behavior that way. We explore both sides of that experience so that each person can better understand what is happening between you.
What do you do in Couples Therapy?
Through building effective communication, problem solving and conflict resolution skills, my couples learn how to enhance the relationship and add fresh meaning to “being a couple”. Sometimes, the focal point of the therapy is to provide permission to end the relationship. My work focuses on enhancing communication, deepening intimacy, understanding self-esteem, looking at sexual problems, delving into parenting and adoption questions, investigating pre-marital and dating concerns, opening up conflict resolution difficulties, dealing with life cycle issues, and, when appropriate or unavoidable, preparing for separation and adjusting to divorce.
What are the benefits of couples therapy?
Couples therapy focuses on the problems existing in the relationship between two people. It is important to note, however, that these relationship problems always involve “individual” symptoms and troubles, as well as the “relationship” conflicts. Discordant issues are readily identified and together we look at the essential changes that are needed for the relationship to progress. Using the systems approach, we explore together the influence and impact of each family of origin and the individual’s psychodynamics to discover where change can happen. I help couples learn how to communicate more effectively, listen more closely, validate each other, twin together, and be empathically attuned to one another. Couples learn to appreciate the importance of not internally competing, pinpointing common life goals and sharing responsibilities within their relationship.
This process is very similar to individual psychotherapy; often it is more like mediation; sometimes, it is educational. Yet, it is the combination of these three constituents that makes it effective.
In my role as a Marriage and Family Therapist, I work with dating, engaged, living-together, married and divorced traditional, gay and lesbian couples.
When to seek help
- Affair or betrayal
- Lack of mutual sexual interest
- No special "dates" or time together
- Little interest in your partner's life
Individual therapy provides an opportunity to slow down, understand yourself more deeply, and explore the experiences and relationships that have shaped who you are.
- depression, sadness, loneliness
- grief and loss
- anxiety and panic
- low self-esteem and confidence issues
- relationship difficulties
- trauma and abuse
- reproductive issues
- adjustment to motherhood
- parenting
- infidelity, separation or divorce
- sleep disturbances
- substance abuse
- eating disorders and body image
- sexual issues
- life transitions
- personal growth
- stress management
- problems at work or home
--William James
Why is Individual Therapy important?
Individual therapy provides an opportunity to slow down, understand yourself more deeply, and explore the experiences and relationships that have shaped who you are. As an experienced individual therapist, I provide a supportive and thoughtful space for psychotherapy that helps you better understand your emotions, relationships, and patterns of behavior. Individual therapy can help you develop greater self-awareness, strengthen your confidence, and create meaningful changes in your life.
Individual therapy can be helpful when you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about how to move forward. You may be struggling with anxiety, stress, self-doubt, relationship concerns, or difficult life transitions. Therapy provides a supportive space to better understand what you're experiencing, develop new perspectives, and identify patterns that may be keeping you from feeling fulfilled.
You don't need to wait for a crisis to seek individual therapy. Sometimes, reaching out for support is simply a way to gain greater self-awareness, strengthen your relationships, and make meaningful changes in your life.
Individual therapy provides an opportunity to slow down, understand yourself more deeply, and explore the experiences and relationships that have shaped who you are.
- depression, sadness, loneliness
- grief and loss
- anxiety and panic
- low self-esteem and confidence issues
- relationship difficulties
- trauma and abuse
- reproductive issues
- adjustment to motherhood
- parenting
- infidelity, separation or divorce
- sleep disturbances
- substance abuse
- eating disorders and body image
- sexual issues
- life transitions
- personal growth
- stress management
- problems at work or home
--William James
Why is Individual Therapy important?
Individual therapy provides an opportunity to slow down, understand yourself more deeply, and explore the experiences and relationships that have shaped who you are. As an experienced individual therapist, I provide a supportive and thoughtful space for psychotherapy that helps you better understand your emotions, relationships, and patterns of behavior. Individual therapy can help you develop greater self-awareness, strengthen your confidence, and create meaningful changes in your life.
Individual therapy provides an opportunity to slow down, understand yourself more deeply, and explore the experiences and relationships that have shaped who you are.
- depression, sadness, loneliness
- grief and loss
- anxiety and panic
- low self-esteem and confidence issues
- relationship difficulties
- trauma and abuse
- reproductive issues
- adjustment to motherhood
- parenting
- infidelity, separation or divorce
- sleep disturbances
- substance abuse
- eating disorders and body image
- sexual issues
- life transitions
- personal growth
- stress management
- problems at work or home
--William James
Why is Individual Therapy important?
Individual therapy provides an opportunity to slow down, understand yourself more deeply, and explore the experiences and relationships that have shaped who you are. As an experienced individual therapist, I provide a supportive and thoughtful space for psychotherapy that helps you better understand your emotions, relationships, and patterns of behavior. Individual therapy can help you develop greater self-awareness, strengthen your confidence, and create meaningful changes in your life.
When to seek Individual Therapy
- Are you having a difficult time dealing with stress?
- Does your life feel unfulfilled?
- Do you have problems at work?
- Do you doubt yourself when you're challenged?