Trained therapists in NJ for couples & individual therapy

Meet Our Team | Therapists in NJ 

Individual & Couples Therapy | Family & Marriage Counseling

Who We Work With

We work with couples, families, and individuals. Some people attend counseling alone to get help with personal and relationship struggles. Do people come in and work on relationship issues alone? Yes because some men and women have to make some difficult decisions about the marriage or relationship. Besides, their partner or spouse may not be willing to attend.

Sometimes, young couples or older couples in a new relationship may call looking for help if they are struggling with various issues. Engaged couples often call if they need to discuss some issues in premarital counseling before getting married. Other couples call looking for help with parenting, blended and stepfamily issues – or dealing with difficult in-laws.

Most importantly, our therapists are licensed, experienced, warm, and compassionate. We provide couples therapy, marriage counseling to help with all types of relationship problems.  In addition, we also work with individuals who need help with relationship and personal issues. All of our therapists are open and accepting of people with different cultures, lifestyles, beliefs, and backgrounds.

We provide professional therapy services in a safe and compassionate space for people who to get the help they need.

Meet Our Compassionate Team

Dana Carbone LMFT

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Dana is an experienced licensed marriage and family therapist who provides therapy for couples and Individuals. She helps couples with marital and relationship issues including premarital counseling, parenting, and family therapy. She helps individuals with anxiety and depression and other concerns which include relationships, parenting, work, in-laws, stepfamily and blended family issues, teenagers, and other family issues.

Robert Jenkins LCSW

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Robert Jenkins has his Clinical Social Work License. He has been practicing as a licensed clinical social worker LCSW since 2002 and practicing as a social worker since 2009. Bob helps individuals, couples, and families with relationship and personal challenges. He has experience with relationship counseling, helping individuals with anxiety, depression, anger, grief, trauma. Bob has previous experience as the director of an IOP ( Intensive Outpatient Program), as well as helping his clients with anger management. He is also a certified divorce mediator and has experience with cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, dialectical behavioral therapy DBT, psychodynamic, and more.

Yensy Graham LMFT

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Yensy Graham is a LMFT licensed marriage & family therapist. Yensy helps individuals, couples, and families with relationship and personal challenges. She helps couples with marital and relationship issues including premarital counseling, and family therapy. She also helps individuals with anxiety and depression and other concerns which include relationships, parenting, work, in-laws, step and blended family issues, teenagers, and other family issues. She is a bilingual therapist and speaks Spanish fluently.

Daphne Berkovits LMFT

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Daphne is a licensed marriage and family therapist experienced in helping couples, families, and individuals in need of therapy. She helps young adults and adults with anxiety and depression and couples with a wide range of relationship and family issues. She can help with parenting issues, communication problems, infidelity, in-laws, adolescent struggles, and other family problems. She can help individuals with relationship issues as well.

Debra Feinberg LCSW

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Debra has expertise with family, marital and relationship issues as well as anxiety, depression, grief and a range of personal and relationship challenges. She graduated from Binghamton University in 1980 and went on to get her graduate MSW degree at Syracuse Univeristy.  In additon to couples, Debra also helps individuals with relationship issues that want to come in alone or their partner is not willing to go to sessions. She is very experienced with working with all types of relationship and family issues as well as anxiety and depression.  Debra works with couples married for over 25 years and in addition, she works with couples in a new relationship or marriage.  She also works with couples that are looking for premarital counseling and others in a second or new marriage, In addition, she helps with blended and stepfamily problems. She understands the struggle that many couples, individuals, and families face.  Debra also trains in and practices mindfulness to help individuals with anxiety and depression and other personal challenges.  Most importantly, she is experienced, warm, compassionate, and professional in her approach to helping couples, families, and individuals in need of help.

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Therapists in NJ – Here to Help You

Maplewood Counseling provides compassionate and effective therapy services to couples, families and individuals in and around Essex County, NJ. We help couples with marriage and relationship issues as well as individuals who need help with relationships as well as grief, depression, divorce, anxiety and stress. We also help with family problems, issues related to aging and health (coping with or caring for a family member with health issues), a life crisis and difficult transitions.

We’re experienced with and sensitive to multicultural and LGBT gay issues and open and accepting to men and women from all lifestyles, cultures, backgrounds and beliefs.

 Essex County, NJ Therapy Services:

• Marriage counseling, family and couples therapy
• New relationships, new and second marriage
• Infidelity, and affair, online cheating, betrayal, trust
• Pre-Marriage counseling
• Depression, CBT, anxiety, mindfulness
• Grief and loss
• Multicultural counseling
• Families coping with serious, chronic and terminal illness
• Coping with a life crisis, divorce, job loss, death in the family
• Issues related to aging, caring for aging parents, isolation, depression
• Parenting, step-parenting, blended-family problems
• LGBT affirming- GLBT gay Counseling, gay marriage counseling, same sex couples, LGBTQI relationships and issues
• Multicultural, interfaith and cross-cultural issues
• Mixed Race and inter-racial couples and family Issues
• Divorce, breaking up, and ending a relationship

We help couples with marriage and relationship issues, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and issues related to divorce and loss. We work with individuals and couples to help them resolve issues at home – feeling hurt, frustrated, or angry and want help dealing with conflict, communication, intimacy or coping with an affair and infidelity. We also help individuals who feel alone, stressed, isolated and depressed and want help getting to a better place.

We help couples and individuals work toward improving their lives and strengthening their relationships.

A good therapist will make you feel safe and offer non-judgmental acceptance. Choosing a therapist with whom you feel safe, connected and understood is important to successful therapy.   Effective therapy can help you find better ways to cope, communicate and make positive changes.

Open to, Experienced with & Sensitive to Diversity and Multicultural Issues:

Who we provide therapy for: men, women, adolescents and couples – married or partnered who have a range of issues and come from different cultures, ethic backgrounds, beliefs and lifestyles. We work with caucasian, African American, men and women of color, black, mixed-race and inter-racial couples and families, latino, hispanic, Asian American ( Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Philippine ), Asian American Pacific Islander AAPI, Native American, Arab, immigrants, Jewish ( orthodox , conservative and reform) , Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Hinduism, Hindi, Buddhist as well as agnostic and atheist clients. We also work with LGBTQ gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual and queer individuals, couples and families.

We provide confidential therapy services for men and women who work in all different jobs and industries, such as airline pilots, police officers, corrections officers, federal agents, business executives, small business owners, therapists, lawyers, financial advisors, Wall Street bankers, entrepreneurs, accountants, doctors, stay at home parents, and many others that need help for a personal, family or relationship problem.

Contact us now and let us know how we can help you.