Core Relationships-Relationship Therapy in NY

About

I’m Bassy Schwartz, LMFT, founder and clinical director of Core Relationships Counseling. I work with adults and couples who are highly capable on the outside but feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in patterns they can’t seem to change.

I help clients look beneath anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, over-functioning, low self-esteem, and relationship issues to understand the attachment experiences and emotional wounds driving those patterns.

I specialize in couples therapy and marriage counseling, particularly with couples caught in cycles of pursuing, withdrawing, criticizing, defending, or shutting down. My work includes intimacy issues, resentment, emotional disconnection, attachment injuries, parenting stress, and complex marriages. I also work with individuals navigating dating, life transitions, family-of-origin dynamics, childhood emotional neglect, trauma and complex trauma, postpartum transitions, infertility, and relational wounds.

My primary approach is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), with an attachment-based, experiential, relational, family systems, and trauma-informed lens. I’m interested not only in managing symptoms, but in understanding and changing the patterns underneath them.

As a therapist practicing within the frum community, I understand the intersection of emotional health, marriage, family, community, and religious life. I’m comfortable working with shalom bayis, shidduchim and dating, taharas hamishpacha and mikvah, intimacy, chinuch and parenting, and religious struggles.

My style is warm, direct, curious, and deeply engaged. Therapy isn’t about learning to function better while still feeling miserable underneath. It’s about understanding yourself differently and building relationships that feel safer, more connected, and more alive.