Why New York Therapy
Expertise you can verify, methods proven by research, and care built for people who expect both. No guesswork. No generic advice.
Most therapists took a workshop. Ours helped build the field.
One of the hardest things to assess when choosing a therapist is depth of training. Many clinicians who list an approach on their website attended a weekend course. The difference between trained and untrained practitioners is not small — in couples work it is the difference between roughly a 75% recovery rate and a coin flip. At New York Therapy, the methods we use were learned directly from the people who created them.
Founder-level credentials
Schema Therapy
Travis Atkinson trained directly under Dr. Jeffrey Young, the founder of Schema Therapy, working alongside him for two decades. He went on to help co-develop the Schema Therapy for Couples model and helped build the first international training program for schema therapists. He is an Honorary Lifetime Member of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST), a distinction reserved for those who shaped the field.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Travis was mentored by the late Dr. Sue Johnson, the founder of EFT, and is a founder of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Gottman Method — certified since 2006
Travis began training with The Gottman Institute in 1998 and became a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist in 2006 — among the first in the New York metropolitan region to do so. This is no weekend-workshop credential: it reflects more than 25 years of working with the method, and nearly two decades as a certified therapist. After applying Gottman’s research to real couples for over a quarter-century, this work is, frankly, in his DNA.
What the research shows
We rely on approaches with decades of peer-reviewed evidence behind them. These are not marketing figures — they are what the published data reports.
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). Results may vary.
Professional affiliations
NY Center for EFT — Founder
Certified Gottman Method Therapist
Schema Therapy for Couples — Co-developer
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