You're both still here. That means something.
Online marriage therapy for professional couples in Manhattan and Brooklyn who are done having the same fight and ready for something that works.
You've tried fixing this on your own. It's not working.
You know that moment when you’re both in the kitchen, moving around each other like roommates who signed a lease they can’t break? Nobody’s yelling. Nobody’s crying. You’re just… coexisting. And somewhere in the back of your mind, a voice whispers: is this it?
You’ve done the rational thing. Talked it out over wine that turned into an argument by the second glass. Given each other space that quietly became avoidance. Asked ChatGPT for relationship advice at 1 a.m. and got a pep talk that made you feel validated for about twenty minutes before the same pattern swallowed it whole.
Both of you are good at your jobs. You solve complex problems for a living. So why does this one keep winning? Because relationships don’t respond to logic the way spreadsheets and strategy decks do. The part of your brain running this show is older, deeper, and completely unimpressed by your LinkedIn profile.
You’re on this page because something in you knows that doing nothing has its own cost. And it compounds. If you’ve started looking for marriage and couples counseling in NYC, that instinct is worth trusting.
What makes online marriage therapy with Travis different?
Most couples therapists learn one method and apply it to everyone. Travis spent nearly three decades training directly with the founders of the field’s three most effective approaches, then integrated them into something none of them could do alone.
The Loving at Your Best Plan
Three methods. One plan. The most comprehensive approach to marriage and couples counseling in NYC.
Gottman Method: Spot what's killing your relationship
Schema Therapy: Break the fight you keep having
Emotionally Focused Therapy: Reach for each other again
Who you'll work with
Travis Atkinson didn’t just learn couples therapy from a textbook. He learned it from the people who wrote them.
Jeffrey Young, the creator of Schema Therapy, began training Travis in 1994. By 1998, Travis was working at Young’s center, where he stayed for over a decade. During that time, he became one of the co-creators of Schema Therapy for Couples.
Travis holds advanced certification as a Schema Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer for both individuals and couples, and co-founded the International Society of Schema Therapy. In 2020, ISST awarded him Honorary Lifetime Membership, a distinction reserved for those who shaped the direction of the field. Most therapists who list Schema Therapy on their website took a workshop. Travis helped build the field.
Sue Johnson, the founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy, began training Travis in 2006. He went on to help co-create the first EFT training video for working with gay and lesbian couples. Travis has been a Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor since 2010. That distinction means he doesn’t just practice EFT. He trains other therapists in it.
Travis became a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist in 2006, one of the earliest in New York. He’s spent over 25 years applying that research to real couples in real trouble.
More than three decades of this work have given him something no certification alone provides: the ability to read a relationship in the first session, name what’s happening underneath the arguments, and build a plan that fits your specific dynamic instead of following someone else’s script.
All sessions are online. No commute, no waiting room. You log on from wherever you are.
Travis founded Loving at Your Best to offer a different kind of marriage and couples counseling in NYC, one built on three decades of clinical depth, not a weekend certification.
What couples work on with Travis
Where your relationship is stuck matters. So does who you choose to help.
Every couple arrives with a different version of the same question: can this get better? The honest answer: it depends entirely on who you work with.
Most couples don’t know this, but the therapist they’re trusting with their marriage probably has almost no formal training in couples therapy. Eighty percent of private practice therapists report treating couples, yet most training programs don’t require a single course in it. Roughly 90% never received specialized training in treating infidelity, the issue that brings more couples into therapy than almost any other.
"40% of couples report their therapist made statements that actively undermined their relationship, including suggesting divorce or calling a partner's personality the problem."
The gap between trained and untrained couples therapists isn’t small. It’s the difference between a 75% recovery rate and a coin flip.
- Emotionally Focused Therapy: 75% of distressed couples recover. 90% improve significantly.
- Gottman Method: Over 90% accuracy identifying what’s destroying your relationship, with outcome studies showing 80% improvement in relationship satisfaction after intervention.
- Schema Therapy: Where EFT and Gottman reach their limits, Schema Therapy goes deeper. Some couples hit a wall in treatment because the patterns driving their conflicts are rooted in something older than the relationship itself. Schema Therapy was built for those couples. Travis co-created this approach.
Without evidence-based training? Half improve. Half of those relapse.
Travis doesn’t pick one method and hope it fits. He integrates all three into the Loving at Your Best Plan because relationships break in more than one dimension, and no single approach captures the full picture. No other practice offers it.
Communication That Keeps Breaking Down
You've said the same thing fourteen different ways. None of them landed. Travis identifies where your conversations derail and why repair attempts keep failing.
Does couples therapy with Travis work?
What three decades of research and clinical experience say
When you’re choosing marriage and couples counseling in NYC, the research behind the approach matters. Travis integrates three approaches because no single method captures the full complexity of a relationship in crisis. A 2024 study of over 1,100 married clients confirmed that online couples therapy produces outcomes equal to in-person sessions. What you’re looking at below isn’t marketing. It’s what the peer-reviewed data says.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Gottman Method
Online couples therapy works. The research proves it.
Online vs. In-Person (2024 Research Results)
Results may vary. Sources: Johnson, Hunsley, Greenberg & Schindler (1999); Wiebe & Johnson (2016); Gottman & Silver (1999); Zahl-Olsen et al., Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (2024); Bradford, Johnson, Anderson et al., Psychotherapy Research (2024)
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Online marriage and couples counseling in NYC
You've spent real time on this page. That means something.
Maybe it’s the hope that things could feel different between you and your partner. Maybe it’s the quiet recognition that waiting another year costs more than trying something new. Either way, you’re here. And the couples who end up working with Travis almost always say the same thing afterward: “I wish we’d started sooner.”
Six years. That's how long most couples wait.
Six years of the same argument. Six years of sleeping on opposite sides of the bed. Six years of telling yourself it’s not bad enough, that other couples have it worse, that you should be able to figure this out on your own.
Couples who begin therapy sooner and work with a therapist trained in evidence-based methods see dramatically better outcomes. Couples who wait, and who land with an untrained therapist, often leave believing their relationship was the problem. It wasn’t. The approach was.
You don’t need another six years to know what you already know.
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