Overcoming Retroactive Jealousy and Anxious Attachment in Relationships

This article was updated on October 7, 2026.

Many couples experience the painful, eroding effects of chronic relationship anxiety. A frequent, highly distressing manifestation of this anxiety is retroactive jealousy—a state where an individual feels intensely threatened, insecure, or obsessed with their partner's romantic and sexual history.

Minimalist line drawing reflecting the mental overload, intrusive thoughts, and anxious attachment loops of retroactive jealousy. Individual adults and couples can schedule clinical sessions at the Greenwich Village, NYC private practice of Josephine Ferraro, LCSW.

While this pattern can affect individuals with any relational blueprint, it is exceptionally common among those navigating an anxious attachment style. When left unaddressed, these intrusive loops create profound emotional distance, frequently bringing partnerships to the brink of separation.

What is Retroactive Jealousy? Core Characteristics

The individual experiences a persistent fixation on a partner's previous relationships, encounters or life experiences that occurred before the current partnership even existed.

Psychotherapists categorize this pattern through several core behavioral and somatic indicators:

• Chronic Emotional Distress: Experiencing intense waves of anxiety, anger, sadness, or resentment regarding a partner's past, even when knowing objectively that the previous relationship is completely over.
• Obsessive, Intrusive Thoughts: Navigating unwanted, recurring mental loops, vivid mental movies,or painful comparisons regarding a partner's former flame.
• Hypervigilant Intrusive Behaviors: Feeling an urge to obsessively monitor a partner's phone or computer, track their physical whereabouts, or repeatedly interrogate them about their past encounters.
• Compulsive Reassurance-Seeking: Engaging in repetitive questioning to find momentary emotional relief from anxiety, though the temporary reassurance quickly gives way to a demand for even more granular details.
• Deep Fear of Abandonment: Operating under a constant panic that the partner will eventually realize their ex was "better" and choose to leave the relationship.

The Intersection of Retroactive Jealousy and Anxious Attachment

While retroactive jealousy can stem from a variety of psychological factors, it serves as a primary coping mechanism for an anxious attachment style. Individuals with an anxious blueprint possess a highly sensitive nervous system that constantly scans their environment for signs of rejection or abandonment.

When an anxiously attached individual feels insecure in their current bond, their mind often targets the partner's past. They project their deepest fears of inadequacy onto the ex-partner, transforming a historical fact into an active, competitive threat. This fixation serves as an automatic destructive attempt to solve their internal lack of self-esteem by trying to control the partner's internal thoughts and memories.

Foundational Causes of Relational Insecurity

• Prior Relational Trauma: Surviving past experiences of infidelity, sudden abandonment, or partnerships where boundaries with exes were intentionally kept blurry and unclear.
• Family of Origin Wounds: Growing up in an unstable or invalidating childhood home. This includes experiencing childhood emotional neglect, parental infidelity, or absorbing chronic verbal messages that labeled you as unlovable or inherently inadequate.
• Early Parental Comparison: Being systematically compared negatively to siblings or peers by primary caregivers, which structurally damages an individual's adult self-worth.

Clinical Vignette: Brenda’s Loop of Intrusive Reassurance

The following clinical case study is a composite drawn from many cases with all identifying details strictly altered to safeguard client confidentiality. It illustrates how retroactive jealousy can paralyze a partnership and demonstrates how specialized psychotherapy fosters deep relational healing.

The Cycle of Interrogation and Escalation

Brenda sought help from a licensed mental health professional after her boyfriend, Joe, issued a clear ultimatum: enter therapy to address her excessive jealousy, or the relationship would end. Objectively, Brenda knew Joe was faithful. Somatically, however, whenever she thought about his long-term ex-girlfriend, her nervous system went into a state of absolute panic.

Unable to contain her somatic distress, Brenda began questioning Joe relentlessly. She demanded to know if he still fantasized about his ex, if he found her more attractive, and how their current connection measured up to his past. 

Initially, Joe tried to offer patient, loving reassurance. However, Brenda found no lasting emotional relief. Instead, his answers fueled her obsessive thoughts, prompting her to ask even more granular, detailed questions for hours at a time.

The Breaking Point

The dynamic escalated when Brenda began tracking Joe’s ex on social media, searching for old photos. The ultimate boundary breach occurred when Brenda bypassed his privacy and hacked into his old emails, uncovering a years-old photo of Joe and his ex smiling at the beach.

Brenda launched into an intense barrage of accusatory questions. Joe, who had completely forgotten the photo even existed, offered to delete it on the condition that Brenda seek professional help. The ultimatum triggered Brenda’s core abandonment fears; she became trapped in a cognitive distortion, believing that if Joe left her, he would immediately run back to his ex.

During the initial clinical assessment, her psychotherapist mapped Brenda's anxious attachment style back to an unstable childhood home. Her parents had engaged in chronic infidelity, volatile spending, and a stream of highly invalidating messages, telling Brenda she was worthless and would never find love. Her current behavioral loops were an automatic survival strategy born from early developmental trauma.

Clinical Treatment Plan: Strategies for Anxious Attachment Recovery

To help clients break free from the painful grip of retroactive jealousy, a skilled trauma therapist implements a multi-phased treatment plan combining short-term somatic regulation with long-term attachment repair.

Short-Term Somatic & Behavioral Stabilization

• Regulate with Mindfulness Meditation: Practice dedicated mindfulness exercises twice daily. This trains the brain to observe an intrusive thought or "jealous spike" without automatically reacting to it or launching into a frantic behavioral response.
• Anchor into Present-Moment Reality: When an obsessive thought about a partner's history arises, actively interrupt the loop. Ground your awareness into the immediate physical room, repeating this process as many times as necessary to de-escalate the nervous system.
• Maintain Structured Reflective Journaling: Use a dedicated journal to externalize fears. Document the raw, irrational anxious thoughts alongside your objective, grounded adult perspective to process the underlying emotions safely.
• Cultivate Intrinsic Self-Esteem: Engage in values-aligned, confidence-boosting activities outside of the relationship contract. Reclaiming personal hobbies, creative arts, or professional goals breaks the habit of relying entirely on a partner's validation for self-worth.
• Establish Rigid Internal Boundaries: Practice radical self-restraint by refusing to check a partner's devices, look at an ex's social media profile, or initiate hours-long interrogations. Choosing to tolerate the temporary spike in anxiety eventually breaks the compulsive loop.

Long-Term Healing in Specialized Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

While individual coping skills provide immediate symptom relief, true recovery requires shifting how you communicate boundaries within your relationship system. Working with a skilled professional allows individual adults and couples to transform repetitive, defensive conflict into a secure, collaborative partnership.

Utilizing experiential, mind-body oriented approaches helps couples safely uncover the core attachment panic beneath the anger, allowing the secure partner to offer core emotional validation that heals old relational wounds.

About Josephine Ferraro, LCSW

I am a licensed New York City psychotherapist, advanced Trauma Specialist, and Certified Sex Therapist with over 25 years of clinical experience guiding individual adults and couples through complex relational, emotional, and sexual challenges. 

I offer a free 15 minute phone call before setting up an appointment.

My Greenwich Village private practice utilizes cutting-edge, mind-body oriented psychotherapies to help clients step out of old survival patterns, heal developmental trauma, and construct deeply secure, resilient partnerships including:

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT for couples)

• Sex Therapy for individuals and people in relationships

• Somatic Experiencing (SE)

• Attachment-Focused EMDR

• AEDP

• IFS Parts Work Therapy

• Clinical Hypnosis (Hypnotherapy)

Connect with My Greenwich Village Psychotherapy Private Practice:

• 🌐 Website: Visit Josephine Ferraro, LCSW - NYC Psychotherapist to explore my clinical philosophies and read more relationship insights.
• 📞 Phone: Call (917) 742-2624 during standard business hours 
• ✉️ Email: josephineferraro@iCloud.com
• 📍 Location: Conveniently located for in-person sessions on Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue) Greenwich Village, NYC 10011 and available for secure online teletherapy throughout New York State.

Looking at Your Partner Through an Attachment Lens Instead of an Enemy Lens

This article was updated on October 5, 2026.

In prior articles, I have unpacked the mechanics of adult attachment styles, including anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, and disorganized attachment (see the comprehensive resource links at the bottom of this piece). 

However, even when you are conceptually familiar with attachment theory—including your own unique style and your partner's core triggers—it remains incredibly easy to slip back into looking through an "enemy lens" when high-stakes tension arises between you.

Moving past the enemy lens to map your relationship's negative cycle. Josephine Ferraro, LCSW provides advanced, specialized EFT couples counseling in Greenwich Village, NYC

When you look at your partner through an enemy lens, your nervous system interprets their words or behaviors as an intentional personal attack, a malicious attempt to control you, or definitive proof that they simply do not care. 

By consciously shifting your focus to an attachment lens, you completely reframe your perspective. This allows you to decode your partner's distressing behaviors for what they truly are: either a desperate cry for connection or a protective cry for safety and space when their nervous system is completely overwhelmed.

Shifting Your Perspective: Moving From the Enemy Lens to the Attachment Lens

Reframing relationship friction requires a fundamental shift in how you interpret everyday interpersonal distress. Here are common examples of how you can actively transition your focus from a combative posture to a compassionate, attachment-focused stance:

1. From "Controlling" to "Anxious"

When your partner floods your phone with frequent texts or calls demanding to know your whereabouts, an enemy lens labels this behavior as purely toxic or controlling. By looking through an attachment lens, you can recognize that an anxiously attached partner is experiencing a profound internal spike of insecurity. Rather than trying to micromanage you, their behavior is an unpolished, frantic attempt to gain somatic reassurance that you are still emotionally available and that the relationship is safe.

2. From "Indifferent" to "Overwhelmed"

When a partner retreats into absolute silence or physically leaves the room during a disagreement, it is easy to view their behavior as indifferent, cold, or stonewalling. An attachment lens allows you to see that an avoidant partner is experiencing intense physiological flooding. They pull away and "shut down" as a protective survival mechanism to avoid escalating the conflict, often because they internally feel like a failure or feel inadequate to meet your emotional needs.

3. From "Picking a Fight" to "Reaching Out"

When a partner leads a conversation with a critical or sarcastic comment, it feels like they are deliberately trying to provoke an argument. Through an attachment lens, you can understand that these critical outbursts are often clumsy, desperate bids for connection. Because they feel lonely, invisible or profoundly unimportant to you, they resort to protest behavior simply to elicit any emotional response from you rather than remaining abandoned in the silence.

The Negative Cycle is the Enemy—Not Your Partner

In Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT), neither partner is cast as the "bad guy" or the villain. Instead of pathologizing your partner or labeling yourself as the sole problem, systemic therapy helps you view your painful interactions through the mechanics of the negative cycle you both inadvertently get trapped in (see my article: Breaking the Negative Cycle in Your Relationship with EFT Couples Counseling).

When you stop weaponizing blame and projection, you can begin to recognize that you each harbor deep, underlying attachment fears that drive this rigid loop. Shifting to an attachment framework allows you to lower your defensive shield, step out of a combative posture and adopt a compassionate stance that honors the nervous system's survival needs.

Deconstructing the Cycle Through Specialized EFT Couples Therapy

If you and your partner find yourselves stuck in chronic patterns of blame, hypervigilance, or mutual withdrawal, standard self-help tips are not enough to rewire the bond. True restoration requires working with a licensed mental health professional who possesses advanced systemic training in adult attachment systems and couples dynamics.

A skilled EFT couples therapist helps you map your interactive loop, slow down your reactive triggers, and build the necessary emotional safety to communicate your primary vulnerabilities directly. 

Rather than remaining trapped in an exhausting loop where you view each other as adversaries, seeking specialized couples therapy can transform your daily dynamic, restore trust, and build a deeply fulfilling, transparent relationship.

About Me: Advanced Couples Counseling in New York City

I am a licensed New York psychotherapist, advanced EFT Couples Therapist, and Certified Sex Therapist with over 25 years of experience helping individuals and partners break out of chronic gridlock and build vibrant relational health. 

My private practice integrates cutting-edge, attachment-focused and psychodynamic models to heal relational trauma from the inside out, including:

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples
• Certified Sex Therapy
• Somatic Experiencing (SE)
• EMDR Therapy
• AEDP
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) / Parts Work Therapy
• Clinical Hypnotherapy

I provide in-person therapy at my private practice office in Greenwich Village, New York, NY 10011, as well as secure online telehealth consultations throughout New York State.

• 🌐 Website: Josephine Ferraro, LCSW - NYC Psychotherapist
• ✉️ Email Direct: josephineferraro@iCloud.com
• 📞 Phone: (917) 742-2624 (during business hours)

Also See My Articles:

• Understanding the 4 Cs of the Attachment Behavioral System
  
• Understanding the Impact of Early Attachment Issues on Relationships
  
• What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) For Couples?
  
• How Can EFT Couples Therapy Improve Your Relationship?
  

Getting Your Emotional Needs Met in Your Relationship

In Julie Mennano's book, Secure Love, she discusses how couples attempt to get their attachment needs met based on their attachment styles.

Getting Your Attachment Needs Met

How Are Attachment Styles Formed?

Attachment styles are formed primarily during infancy and early childhood. 

Attachment styles develop based on the responsiveness, consistency and emotional availability of the child's caretakers.

These early interactions form an internal working model or "blueprint" for how individuals perceive, expect and act in relationships, including adult romantic relationships (see my article: How Early Attachment Bonds Affect Adult Relationships).

What Are Attachment Needs?

Attachment needs are basic human needs for safety, security and connection.

As adults, these attachment needs are primarily met in romantic relationships--although they can also be met through other relationships like close friendships.

Core attachment needs include:

• Safety and security: A predictable, reliable environment
• Soothing (regulation): Comfort and support
• Validation and attunement: Feeling seen, heard, understood and worthy to their partner
• Connection and belonging: A need for closeness and acceptance which reduces loneliness
• Structure and boundaries: Clear rules and limits that provide a structure for safety

Within the attachment styles, there are three insecure attachment styles and one secure attachment styles.

About 50% of people have a secure attachment style and 50% have an insecure attachment style.

The insecure attachment styles include:

• Anxious attachment
• Avoidant attachment
• Disorganized attachment

Although couples can be any combination, most couples with insecure attachment are usually made up of one person with an anxious attachment style and one person with an avoidant attachment style.

Anxious Attachment Style

People with an anxious attachment style try to get their attachment needs met through protest behavior and other similar behaviors which are driven by a deep fear of abandonment.

Anxious Attachment Style

Although their desire is to get their partner's attention and re-establish connection, their efforts often have the opposite effect on their partner.

Common behaviors include:

• Protest behavior: Engaging in actions which are meant to get their partner's attention and try to re-establish connection including threatening to leave, sending many texts, leaving many phone messages, trying to make their partner jealous.

• Hypervigilance: Monitoring their partner's behavior in a state of hypervigilance for lack of attention or signs of emotional withdrawal which they interpret as threats to the relationship.

• Overcompensation and clinging: Becoming clingy as a way to ensure their partner stays. This often results in their neglecting their own needs in the process (see my article:What is Self Abandonment?).

• Emotional volatility and conflict: Using intense emotional outbursts, lashing out and or criticism to force engagement.

• Guilt-tripping: Using passive aggressive tactics to get affection from their partner.

Avoidant Attachment Style

People with an avoidant attachment style try to get their attachment needs met by creating physical and emotional distance to avoid feeling overwhelmed. 

Avoidant Attachment Style

Their challenge is they often find it difficult to articulate their need for space without seeming distant or rejecting of their partner.  

Common behaviors include:

• Need for silence and space: Taking time alone especially after arguments or stressful situations so they can process their emotions (see my article: Compromising About Time Together and Time Apart).

• Preferring "parallel" connection: They might feel more comfortable being in the same room with their partner while they watch TV silently or doing separate activities rather than engaging in direct emotional connection.

• Enforcing boundaries: They require significant personal space to regulate themselves emotionally, pulling away when they feel smothered or during conflict as a way to regain a sense of safety.

Disorganized Attachment Style

People with disorganized attachment style try to get their attachment needs met through a  tumultuous "push-pull" dynamic where they shift from demands for closeness to sudden fearful withdrawal.

Their challenge is they desire closeness but they also fear it, which leads to chaotic and unpredictable behavior in their partner's eyes. At times, they might preemptively reject their partner to avoid feeling abandoned (see my article: An Emotional Dilemma: Wanting and Dreading Love).

Common behaviors include:

• Push/anxious behavior: When they fear they will be abandoned, they can become clingy, demanding or highly dependent as a way to get reassurance from their partner.

• Pull/avoidant behavior: When they feel emotionally vulnerable, they can become abruptly cold, distant or erratic to regain their sense of safety and independence.

• Conflicting communication: They might give mixed messages, wanting affection but acting cold and rejecting.

• Self-sabotage: When they believe they might get hurt by their partner, they might unconsciously create conflict or break up with a partner to feel like they are in control of the rejection (see my article: Overcoming Self Sabotaging Behavior).

• Problems regulating emotions: They can struggle to express their needs. They often react to past unresolved trauma rather than what is happening in the present which makes it difficult for them to communicate their needs and for their partner to understand their needs (see my article: Emotional Regulation).

Problems For Couples With Anxious and Avoidant Attachment

Couples with insecure attachment often struggle with intense emotional instability, poor communication and trust issues.

Anxious and Insecure Attachment

Common problems for couples with an anxious and an avoidant attachment can be intense codependency as opposed to interdependency (see my article: What is the Difference Between Codependency and Interdependency?).

The anxious partner's demands for closeness can trigger the avoidant partner's need to withdraw which, in turn, reinforces the anxious partner's anxiety so they get caught in a negative cycle (see my article: Breaking the Negative Cycle in Your Relationship).

What is Emotionally Focused Therapy For Couples?

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps each individual to understand their own attachment style and how they create a negative cycle together (see my article: What is Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples?).

EFT also helps couples to learn that neither of them is the "enemy". Instead, the "enemy" is the negative cycle which they must learn to break together as a team.

Getting Help in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

If you and your partner are stuck in a negative cycle, you could benefit from working with a licensed mental health professional who is an EFT couples therapist.

Getting Help in EFT Couples Therapy

Rather than struggling on your own, seek help from an experienced EFT couples therapist so you can have a more fulfilling relationship.

About Me

I am a licensed New York psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, EMDR, AEDP, Parts Work (IFS and Ego States Therapy), EFT (for couples), Somatic Experiencing and Certified Sex Therapist.

I have over 25 years of experiencing helping individual adults and couples.

To find out more about me, visit my website: Josephine Ferraro, LCSW - NYC Psychotherapist.

To set up a consultation, call me at (917) 742-2624 during business hours or email me.

What is a Common Relationship Conflict Between Partners With Anxious and Avoidant Attachment Styles?

Today's article is focused on a common relationship conflict where one partner has an anxious attachment style and the other has an avoidant attachment style (see my article: Understanding Your Attachment Style Can Help You to Break the Negative Cycle in Your Relationship).

Conflicts Between Partners With An Anxious and An Avoidant Style

According to Julie Menanno, Emotionally Focused Therapist and author of Secure Love, there is usually a pattern to these conflicts which involve the couple's negative cycle (see my article: Identifying the Negative Cycle in Your Relationship).

What is a Common Conflict Between Partners With Anxious and Avoidant Attachment?

In her book, Julie Menanno discusses a common dynamic between partners based on their attachment styles (see my article: How Your Attachment Style Affects Your Relationship).

An example of this would be when the partner with anxious attachment brings up a concern, they often come across as critical, judgmental or accusatory. In most cases, this partner doesn't intend to be negative. 

On a deeper level, this partner is just trying hard to be heard, but they come across as wanting to pick a fight. 

When the first partner is trying to be heard, but comes across in a negative way, the partner with an avoidant attachment style feels like their partner is attacking them. They feel misunderstood and like they're being blamed, so they react defensively. 

They might come across in different ways. They might get defensive and respond in an overly rational way. They might invalidate their partner's concerns. They might also shutdown, which is also known as stonewalling.

On a deeper level, this partner feels unappreciated and they are trying to defend against feeling like a failure in the relationship. But they don't come across that way. They come across as if they're not paying attention to their anxious partner. 

When the person with anxious attachment hears their partner's response, they feel invalidated and become frustrated. They react with anger because they want to be heard. But on a deeper level, they feel alone and they're desperately trying to get their partner's attention.

In response to the anxious partner's frustration and increasing anger, the avoidant partner feels even more attacked. The avoidant partner doesn't want to make the argument worse so, without realizing it, they shutdown even more. But on a deeper level, they feel ashamed and powerless.

These types of conflicts often go unresolved because each partner feels they can't get through to the other partner and their responses to each other only creates more conflict.

Even when both partners decide to let go of the conflict, one of them, often the anxious partner, will eventually bring it up again at another time in an effort to get to the bottom of hte problem. Their intention is to overcome their problem in the relationship, but this only leads to the couple going through their negative cycle again.

After a while, this becomes their ongoing negative cycle with each partner feeling more frustrated and alone.

Clinical Vignette

The following clinical vignette illustrates how an anxious and avoidant partner typically go through a conflict. As always, this vignette is a composite of many cases with all identifying information changed to protect confidentiality:

Tom and Jane

Tom and Jane were married for five years when they sought help in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples (see my article: What is Emotionally Focused Therapy For Couples?).

Both of them worked at stressful jobs. They also had two small active children in an apartment they owned in New York City. So, aside from their relationship problems, they had other major stressors in their lives.

Each of them agreed that after the initial honeymoon phase of their relationship, they started getting into conflicts over seemingly small issues.

Jane gave an example of one of their recent arguments about an ongoing issue where she felt she had to continuously remind Tom to do the laundry. 

Conflicts Between Partners With An Anxious and An Avoidant Style

According to Jane, they had agreed to divide up a list of chores where one of Tom's chores was to do the laundry. But even though he had agreed to do this weekly task, Tom would often let more than two weeks go by before he did the laundry--to the point where their children were running out of clean clothes to wear. 

Jane said she would remind him a few times after a week had gone by, which she resented doing.  Then he would accuse her of nagging him, which would precipitate an argument.

While he listened to Jane speak, Tom was slumped in his chair with a sullen expression on his face.  Then, when it was his turn to speak, Tom said he realized he was negligent in not doing the laundry, but he felt attacked by Jane and, eventually, he would tune her out because listening to her was too overwhelming.

Jane responded that when she felt Tom was ignoring her, she felt frustrated and angry. She admitted that when she felt that way, she would raise her voice. Even though she often regretted getting so angry afterwards, she didn't know how else to get through to Tom. 

They both realized they were becoming more and more emotionally disconnected from each other.

Over time, the EFT therapist helped Jane and Tom to see each of their attachment styles and how these styles contributed to their negative cycle: Jane had an anxious attachment style and Tom had an avoidant attachment style.

Couples Can Work Out Their Problems in EFT Couples Therapy

Their therapist also helped them to change their negative cycle so they could relate to each other in a more caring, compassionate way.

Tom realized he was behaving in a passive aggressive way by delaying doing the laundry. With the therapist's help, he also realized he was unconsciously repeating a dynamic he saw as a child between his parents who had similar arguments. So, he became much more diligent in doing his half of the chores in a timely manner.

Tom also became aware of how frustrating it was for Jane to remind him continuously of what he needed to do, so he had a lot more compassion for her, especially when he realized how her childhood history was, unconsciously, impacting her in their relationship.

Jane realized her anger was partly fueled by her childhood history where she saw her mother struggling to keep up with all the household chores while her father either relaxed at home or played golf on the weekends with his friends. So, Jane learned in couples therapy to separate her anger for her father from her anger for her husband. 

Jane also became aware that Tom's behavior was unconsciously related to his childhood history, and she developed a lot more compassion for him.

Getting to the point where they each felt compassion and understanding for each other was neither quick nor easy because their negative cycle was so ingrained. But they were both motivated to improve their relationship, so they persevered in couples therapy.

Conclusion

Couples often wait until they're fed up to get help. 

It's not unusual for couples to seek help in couples therapy when one or both of them are already contemplating ending the relationship.

By then, their negative cycle has become an ingrained pattern.

Typically, couples who seek help early on have a better chance of working out their problems in couples therapy in a shorter amount of time. 

So, if you're having problems in your relationship, seek help sooner rather than later if you want to save your relationship.

Getting Help in Couples Therapy

If you and your partner have been struggling with ongoing problems, seek help from an Emotionally Focused therapist (EFT).

EFT has been shown in research to be an effective modality for helping couples to change their negative cycle.

Once you have learned how to change your negative cycle, you and your partner can have a more fulfilling relationship.

About Me

I am a licensed New York City psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, EMDR, AEDP, EFT, Somatic Experiencing and Sex Therapist.

To find out more about me, visit my website: Josephine Ferraro, LCSW - NYC Psychotherapist.

To set up a consultation, call me at (917) 742-2624 during business hours or email me.