Jamey Baumbusch, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

I am excited to start each session with my clients, picking up from our conversation last week, or exploring something new. Therapy is easier, and frankly more fun, when therapeutic work doesn't feel like a chore. I work with individuals, couples, and families to explore new perspectives and practice new solutions. I primarily use systemic therapies, which help us understand issues within different contexts, like family, work, or culture. By understanding your daily life, and your systems, we can explore how to evolve smaller solutions so they feel achievable. Each time we talk, we build upon our therapy goals, moving with life. Communication is everything in couples therapy. Combining our goals, or empathizing with past injuries, requires finding new ways to talk, and listen. Often the beginning of couples work requires building trust to believe and understand one another. I utilize Gottman Method and emotion-focused work to help couples to connect to shared goals and to each other. For individuals, I commonly work with mood conditions (anxiety, depression, etc.), as well as exploring familial or social relationships. Solution-focused work helps with managing symptoms and finding smaller achievements that build into bigger change over time. It's then important to evolve those solutions in natural systems, like family or work contexts.

I hold sessions Monday-Thursday, beginning in the afternoon and ending in the late evening. I offer sessions online via video, and I keep flexible hours, in order to accommodate fitting into work, family, or other life schedules. Clients must be in the state of New York during the session. Couples are able to log in from separate places, though this may be adjusted depending on the content of a session.

I want to especially address this for couples therapy. Some couples come to therapy with goals for investing in romantic connection, or exploring new ways of working together. Many couples come to therapy at a time of crisis, when the goals or needs of each partner do not feel aligned. Couples therapy is a great place to recognize the individual needs of each partner, and blend how to support one another to honor those goals.