Dating in New York City

Relationship counseling for singles in New York City provides practical tools and emotional support to help you reduce relationship anxiety and depression. This allows you to connect more deeply with your date or partner as you work to build the kind of relationship you’ve been dreaming of.

In sessions, you will work with a relationship counselor to set aside self-judgment as you explore where you are now and where you’d like to be. Your therapist knows that every situation is unique. So, they will listen closely as they seek to understand your feelings, challenges, and goals. Further, your therapist will help you develop a sense of compassionate curiosity toward yourself. This will help you understand how your thoughts and feelings are shaping your behaviors and will teach you how and when to be kinder to yourself.

The last thing a successful professional needs is to date someone who wants them to become “smaller” or to “tone down” their qualities. So, it’s important to establish a set of standards for your future partner. That said, many of our clients have also benefited from taking a critical look at whether the standards they’ve created are realistic. If you approach each new possibility with creativity and an open mind, you’ll be more likely to find what you’re looking for without settling for something that just looks good on paper.

It takes time and patience to find and develop meaningful relationships. You might fear that abandoning the frantic pace you’ve been keeping—even for just an hour or two a week—might somehow spill over into the professional realm, hindering your career success.

In our therapists’ experience, though, investing in the non-professional aspects of your life won’t diminish your ambition. Instead, it will actually strengthen it. If you value certain qualities in yourself that have helped you to succeed professionally, such as assertiveness, you won’t have to give them up. You’ll just learn how to apply them more intentionally and strategically.

Plus, The Keely Group provides all therapy services online in New York. This means that you can work on your dating life during your commute, between meetings, or when you finally sit down after a long day of work. Our therapists want to ensure that your counseling sessions are done when you can be attentive and focused. We know that most of your life is go, go, go, so we don’t want to add any further stress. Instead, we want to relieve the stress of your busy schedule by meeting on your time.

Maybe mom and dad influenced how you relate to others, maybe they didn’t. Either way, our job at The Keely Group isn’t to assign blame or to make you feel embarrassed or defensive. Instead, our job is to figure out how you’re currently wired and how you got there, so we can work out any glitches.

Whether you’re conscious of it or not, your younger years were extremely formative for how you learned to interpret and react to the world. Talking about your childhood experiences may give us insights that can accelerate your progress in counseling sessions. So, we’d like to be able to utilize any tools that will help you achieve your goals as quickly as possible.

Relationship counseling for singles at The Keely Group will help you see how your past experiences may be shaping your perception of your situation. In some cases, this new perspective can serve to reveal your prospective partner in a new light. As communication barriers drop away, you might begin to notice that your potential partner is putting in more effort than you had previously realized. . . or, conversely, that they’re not the match you thought they were.

Your therapist will help you remove—or forge new paths around—the psychological obstacles that stand between you and your goals. They’ll also help you address the practical difficulties of dating for professional singles in New York City.