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Many Paths to Healing
Described below are the services that
I offer with an explanation for each service and a link to examples of where I have used that service to assist people like yourself. To protect the privacy of my clients and maintain confidentiality, their names have
been changed.

CouplesTherapy
My approach to couples therapy is to create a safe, intelligent, and nurturing laboratory for learning and practicing how to be relational. Any presenting issue a couple is facing becomes an opportunity to discover how to better express thoughts and feelings and hear those of their partner. With increased communication, that is non-blaming and non-reactive, clarity emerges and conflicts become less scary. Feelings of closeness are restored as a deeper understanding is created.

Here are some examples of using couples therapy:

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topIndividual Therapy for Professionals
Professionals with demanding careers--lawyers, physicians and dentists, psychologists, architects, accountants--depend an enormous amount on their intellect in their usual day: conceptualizing, diagnosing, strategizing, prioritizing, just managing time.  This orientation takes a toll on their emotional life and the energy available to transact with loved ones or find partners.  Respecting your real-world goals, my work allows more of "the inner you" to infuse your work life, so there is more of a natural bridge between your work-life and your whole interpersonal world.  I believe that a sign of wholeness is that your insides and outsides match, and as we work to help you become more true to yourself, you will bring more of your natural self into every arena of your life.

Here are some examples of using Individual Therapy for Professionals:

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topTherapy for Executives
Executives bring to therapy the very human issues that anyone would have. They also have special challenges by virtue of their organizational responsibilities, and the added “stress” calls for finding balance in their life. When you are in a leadership role, talking with someone outside of the hierarchy is essential.

Here are some examples of using Therapy for Executives:

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arrowAlternative Therapy
As a psychotherapist I incorporate Emotionally Focused Bodywork. This calls forth the moment-to-moment awareness in my clients of the on-going interplay of emotion and sensation. This increased kinesthetic awareness is the foundation for real embodiment. With embodiment comes conscious awareness of the relationship between non-verbal experience and its verbal expression. This dynamic approach integrates several psychotherapeutic modalities along with body psychotherapy and Structural Integration. It draws upon the findings of attachment theory, neuroscience, and trauma research in a way that underscores the way our nonverbal experience connects us to the real core of the Self.

Here are some examples of using Alternative Therapy for Professionals: Click to read more about Alternative Therapy

arrowProfessional Collaborations
Since a number of the people I work with have pre-existing therapeutic relationships, and sometimes loyalty to another therapist or modality, the issue of how I function as a healing partner in your personal network, is an important one.  To begin with, I remain aware of this network and maintain respect for all wholesome influences in your life.  As a family therapist, I’m quite aware of how unaddressed loyalties can complicate relationships, so as with anything else that comes up in the treatment situation, we work with your interpersonal world to maximize good boundaries, honoring of Self—and honoring all of your relationships.  Based on what you need, it may make sense for me to be either your primary therapist or an adjunct healer, providing bodywork and subtler forms of energetic and non-verbal awareness work in conjunction with another clinician.

Here are some examples of utilizing Professional Collaborations:

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“Matthew is a gift for those who seek physical and mental health. He is expert at asking the right questions that uncover what needs healing. He provides a roadmap for you to get to that healing place and he creates safety every step of the way. He is wise, empathetic and nurturing. He is honest and kind. There is no one I trust more than Matthew.”

Sam, Marketing Coach



"I am intimately familiar with depression and have seen a number of therapists.
I cannot tell you how much I recommend Matthew Cohen. He is without a doubt the most gifted therapist with whom I have worked, and
I cannot say enough about
his intuitiveness and quality of care."

Sheila, Executive
in Non-Profit Organization



"Freud's sense of having our unconscious material become conscious is the essence of therapy. To have therapeutic material come alive in a holistic and powerful manner, not just as an interesting and intellectual idea, is at the heart of Matthew’s approach."

Family Therapist
and Professor, Ph.D



“After years of very enriching and rewarding traditional "talk therapy,” my primary therapist and I found that I had metaphorically “hit a wall” where I needed something to further stimulate my growth
process. Thus, while recognizing that I had made incredibly significant strides, I noted that I still had lots to learn, but I did not know where to turn to reach that “next level.” That's where
Matthew Cohen entered the picture.



Matthew's bodywork techniques allowed me to augment my primary growth process, to achieve breakthroughs that I don't think I would have
achieved through traditional talk therapy alone (and make no mistake, my primary therapist is brilliant). The bodywork allowed me to both
feel into (vs. intellectualize) new ideas, and to become aware of and change physical holding patterns that paralleled psychological holding patterns. This ultimately led me to "stepping outside the box" of my
previous limitations to try new behaviors. Matthew and my primary therapist kept each other abreast, so everyone was on the same page with respect to my goals and progress. I would recommend this for anyone who is serious about their process.

__George. Lawyer

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