MIMI GELB, MS, LMFT, CST
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
BUILDING INTIMATE AND PASSIONATE RELATIONSHIPS
My goal is to support you to develop better communication and relationship skills, so you can create the kind of intimacy you deserve and desire. In a nurturing and safe environment, I work with individuals and couples who want to have more passion in their sex lives, as well as those who are dealing with personal crises such as infidelity, estrangement or sexual dysfunction.
Relationship Therapy
Reconnect to the love and passion of your earlier relationship
Overcoming Infidelity and Affairs
An affair does not have to mean the end of a relationship
Sex Therapy and Sexual Issues
Creating a healthy and satisfying sex life
Pre-Marital Therapy
Starting off on the right foot for long term success
Improving Communications
Learn strategies to create more positive interactions with your partner
Distance & Lack of Intimacy
Identify and overcome negative patterns that are hindering the quality of your relationship
TESTIMONIALS
MEET MIMI GELB, MS, LMFT, CST
Dedicated to bringing couples closer together
I took a circuitous route to becoming a therapist. After working many years as the personal assistant to the artist Peter Max, I volunteered at The Hunger Project, a non-profit dedicated to ending hunger on the planet. I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives, so I moved to San Francisco to work with the Hunger Project’s director of fundraising.
One weekend, I took a course at More University called “Basic Sensuality,” which changed my life. I was able to understand myself more clearly and perceive how I could be a better partner in a relationship. I enrolled in many other classes at the University, and focused my studies on sensuality and communication between men and women.
This education led me in a new direction that would allow me to help others. After exhausting all the classes at the University, I took what I had learned back to the East Coast. With permission from the University, I started teaching classes in New York. It was in one of these classes that I met my husband. We have now been happily married for over forty years. While raising our two children, I worked as a Community Health Educator for Planned Parenthood.
I always knew that one day, when my children were grown, I would go back to school. I am an example of the saying; “it’s never to late to pursue your dream.” I received my Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Long Island University while working at VCS-Inc., a mental health agency in New City, NY to fulfill the NYS Licensing requirements..
I have been in private practice for over ten years. Couples therapy is one the hardest types of therapy to be practicing. I see couples who have lost hope, are angry with each other, or have been blindsided by infidelity. So many of them could have saved themselves so much grief if they had seen a therapist earlier in their relationship. I work with them to repair their connection, to create a better sex life, learn how to communicate what they’re feeling without alienating their partner, and to help them create a relationship based on trust and mutual respect.
I am an AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists) Certified Sex Therapist. I have taken two advanced courses in Emotional Focused Therapy, and a one year course in the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy at the Couples Institute. I help couples see their entrenched patterns and learn how to change them.
It is a privilege to do the work that I do and I get a great deal of satisfaction improving clients’ relationships and lives.
Certifications:
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Long Island University MS, MFT
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NY State Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
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AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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Emotionally Focused Therapy
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The Couples Institute - Developmental Model of Couples Therapy