Hillary Geffner LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
In-Person in Manhattan, NY 10016
Online in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York
Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, navigating a major life transition, or feeling stuck in recurring patterns in your relationships, therapy can help you gain clarity and create meaningful change. I work with individuals and couples to better understand the emotions, experiences, and relationship dynamics that shape how they see themselves and connect with others. My approach is warm, active, and collaborative. I offer thoughtful feedback, fresh perspectives, and practical tools while helping you build greater self-awareness, emotional resilience, and confidence. Together, we’ll work to strengthen communication, navigate conflict, deepen connection, and shift patterns that are no longer serving you. My goal is to help you create lasting changes that feel meaningful and authentic to you. Reach out by phone or email to schedule an appointment or a free 15-minute consultation.
Client Focus
Session Format: Couple, Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Young Adult
Treatment Approach
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Focuses on strengthening emotional bonds in couples or families. It helps people identify negative cycles and create more secure connections.
- Family Systems Therapy Looks at problems within the context of the family as a whole. It aims to improve communication and balance in family relationships.
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy Based on decades of research, this method gives couples tools to improve communication, manage conflict, and strengthen intimacy.
- Integrative Therapy Combines techniques from multiple approaches into a customized plan. It adapts to each client’s unique situation and needs.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Helps clients heal by working with different ‘parts’ of themselves, like inner critics or wounded children. It fosters harmony within the self.
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Combines mindfulness practices with CBT to prevent depression relapse. It helps people notice thoughts without judgment and respond more calmly.
- Narrative Therapy Encourages people to view problems as separate from themselves and reframe their life story. It helps build resilience and self-identity.
- Psychodynamic Therapy Explores unconscious thoughts and patterns that influence current behavior. It builds insight into how the past impacts the present.
- Relational Psychotherapy Emphasizes the healing power of the therapist-client relationship. It uses trust and safety as a foundation for change.
- Somatic Therapy Helps clients notice how emotions are stored in the body. It uses breath, movement, and awareness for healing trauma and stress.
Approach Description: Taking an integrative approach, I specialize in offering treatments that are client-focused. I don't believe in a one-size-fits-all approach. I tailor our work to meet your specific needs.
Fees & Insurance
Fees
- Average Session Fee $275
- Affordable sliding scale therapy: apply if you may be eligible.
- Please contact me to discuss sliding scale options
- Out of Network
- Offering superbills to submit to insurance for out of network reimbursement
Education & Credentials
Hillary Geffner LMFT Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
- Female
- License # 001478
- Licensed in New York
- Practicing Since 2015
Hillary Geffner LMFT Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available In-Person in Manhattan, NY 10016
- Available Online for residents of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York
- Online Therapy Details: Telehealth platform
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 10 years of experience providing psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and adult families. I specialize in relationship challenges, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, family conflict, and life transitions. My work with couples includes communication difficulties, recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, infidelity, and intimacy and sexual concerns. I also support individuals navigating self-esteem, boundaries, emotional regulation, and relationship patterns, as well as adult families working through longstanding conflicts and changing family dynamics. My approach is relational, integrative, and trauma-informed, drawing from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), attachment-based therapy, and the Gottman Method. I am a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and a certified PREPARE/ENRICH provider, with specialized training in premarital counseling. I offer online therapy throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.