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Marriage Counseling Couples Therapy Montclair NJ
Individual & Family Therapy

Dr. Angela DeCandia
Essex Counseling 

Serving our community for over 20 years
Bride and Groom

Pre-Marital Therapy &

Pre-Marriage Counseling

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Are you engaged? Deciding to live together? Getting married soon?

 

Are you getting scared? Having second thoughts because of relationship problems from the past? Thinking about whether or not to postpone the wedding? 

 

Feeling afraid or having “cold feet” as they say, is not uncommon. Yet, having doubts before your wedding can be extremely upsetting. 

 

Premarriage Therapy Can Help

 

We specialize in helping couples who struggle with communication problems, feeling distant, struggling with trust, and questioning commitment. We can help you get out of the negative communication patterns that make you feel stuck, cause pain.

 

Our method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), has been helping couples for over 30 years. EFT is research based and has demonstrated “significant improvement” between 85 and 90 percent of couples who complete the process.  Our highly trained team of therapists specialize in this method. For over 15 years, Essex Counseling Associates has been helping couples strengthen their relationship bond.

Specialized Pre-Marital Counseling in NJ

Pre-Marital Therapist Essex County in Montclair

973.444.0021

Marriage Counseling with an experience therapist can help improve communication, change negative patterns, help express anger, express frustration and other difficult emotions. We can help Individuals and couples recover from infidelity and trust issues that can cause you to feel stuck. We can help you decide whether to stay together or to separate, help with parenting and help with major life transitions such as divorce, re-marriage, empt nest and starting your family

We offer marriage counseling & couples therapy, individual, family & group therapy. 

We specialize in Emotionally Focused Therapy - EFT which has demonstrated unprecedented success in multiple studies world-wide to help infidelity recovery, improve communication, reduce conflict, alleviate depression & anxiety, help distressed families going through a divorce or remarriage, grief counseling, infertility & pregnancy loss. We have helped people in this community for over 20 years and

we can help you too! 

Eliana & Rick, Somerset, NJ
We booked the venue, got the dresses, the tuxes, the flowers, but we never really talked about our expectations for having a family. I wanted to wait and launch my career and my fiancé, 8 years my senior, wanted to start right away. It was touch and go for a while, but our therapist helped us listen to each other and find a common path. I think should do counseling before their marriage
WE ARE SO GLAD WE DID!

© 2004 - 2025 Dr. Angela DeCandia - Essex Cousneling all rights reserved. We have been providing high quality therapy services including couples therapy, marriage counseling, pre-marital therapy, family therapy, individual counseling for depression, anxiety, grief and bereavement, miscarriage & pregnancy loss and infidelity. Our services are available in-person and online for those based in NJ, NY, NYC and Connecticut via FaceTime, Zoom, Telehealth,  and Teletherapy. Our services extend throughout NY, NJ, NYC & CT and service Montclair, Maplewood, Millburn, Summit, Chatham, Short Hills, Livingston, Essex Fells, West Orange, South Orange, Glen Ridge, Nutley, Bloomfield, Saddle River, Fair Lawn and more. Our Montclair office is conveniently located near zip codes 07042, 07043, 07040, 07041, 07901, 07902, 07928, 07932, 07078, 07039, 07021, 07006, 07052, 07079, 07056, 07110, 07003, 07410, 07458.  We provide teletherapy to Greenwich CT 06830, Darien 06820, Westport 06897, New Canaan 06940, Staten Island 10314, New York City 10021, 10028, 10065, 10075, 10128, 10162, 10029.

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