NEW JERSEY LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR

For over a decade, I have provided relationship counsel to hundreds of New Jersey individuals and couples with myriad concerns and struggles to restore their love for one another. As a result, I've helped conflict, tension, and disconnect melt away - beginning with the first session.

I have developed a unique approach to restoring relationships in pain. Occasionally, couples come to me with their relationship in tatters, hanging by a thread and on life support. Yet, I've helped many of those relationships turn around and heal.

I have become New Jersey's most trusted relationship care and restoration source for these reasons. My private practice is exclusively devoted to couples care and affair recovery. If you've come here in relationship pain, I can help. There's no need to suffer. Reach out and let's get started.

I understand that starting therapy can be a bit daunting. To ease your mind just call or email. I'm here and ready to listen and help. Check out my approach to counseling by clicking the button below.

Couple counseling and affair recovery with Open Door Therapy is compassionate, competent, and professional. Care begins with the premise that the cornerstone of a secure relationship encompasses trust, safety, and emotional responsiveness.

When these elements are compromised, pain and heartache follow. Finding your way back can feel daunting.

Whether you have a few issues to sort out, are in a relationship crisis, or have a complicated matter, rest assured that you've come to the right place.

Our Practice Specialties

Open Door Therapy is devoted to the romantic relationship and couples care. I use the latest research to help couples with warmth and compassion. With over a decade of experience, we're confident in supporting and guiding couples to repair and restore their most important relationship.

Affair recovery counseling is our primary specialization. Infidelity is a complex relationship trauma that provokes powerful, fluctuating emotions and puts the relationship's future at risk. Therefore, recovery requires a skilled clinician adept at working with the layers of challenges inherent in affair recovery.

Pre-Marital Counseling

I love working with couples who are planning to create a life together! Whether there is a matter of concern or you want to set a strong foundation for the future, I can assist you. As a result of working with couples whose relationship is in jeopardy, I highly recommend working to prevent issues by participating in relationship counseling before marrying.

Relationship Complexities

Couples in marriages and committed relationships have myriad concerns and issues, from in-laws to finances to children and life transitions, each posing a unique challenge. I am well-versed in helping couples with their challenges at every relationship stage.

HELP FOR COUPLES IN RELATIONSHIP PAIN

You may be wondering, "Can she help?" My success in helping couples repair their relationship begins relationship basics of quality of trust and emotional safety.

When trust and safety are solid, intimacy ensues and a bond forms. A strongly bonded pair has a dependable, durable, stable, and functional relationship.

Conversely, a relationship weakens when the intimate bond declines.

My professional strength is in helping couples reestablish trust and safety and deepen their intimate bond.

My area of expertise is helping distant, painful, confusing and complicated relationships progress to one that is stable, satisfying and fulfilling. Let's get started.

EASY SCHEDULING AND FLEXIBLE HOURS

Scheduling is easy and hours are flexible with Open Door Therapy. We offer evening and weekend appointments, and new and returning clients enjoy the convenience of online self-scheduling. Working together couldn't be easier.

I would be honored to help you maneuver through the choppy waters so that you can emerge confident in yourself and resilient in your relationship.

-TERRI DIMATTEO, LPC-

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Licenses And Certifications

New Jersey Licensed Professional Counselor
Certified NJ K-8 Elementary Education Teacher and Early Childhood Specialist

Education

Seton Hall University, MA in Counseling
Rider University, BA Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education

Professional Memberships

International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy
New Jersey Association of Women Therapists
American Counseling Association
NJ Counseling Association

Professional Development

Health, Well Being, and the Social Regulation of Affect and Emotion
Connecting from the Inside Out: Mindful Awareness Promotes Interpersonal Effectiveness
Attachment and Well-Being: How the Healthy Mind Emerges from Within our Relationships and Our Bodies
Solving the Key Challenges fo Couple Therapy with EFT
Addressing the neurotic paradox: new approaches to treating emotional disorders
Between Ourselves: Brain Mechanisms for EmpathyReducing Avoidance and Accessing Self-soothing In Emotion-focused Therapy for Complex Trauma (EFTT)
Partner Buffering of Attachment Insecurity
Why Therapy Works
Intimate Partner Violence: Assessment, Safety Planning, Trauma, Sociocultural Aspects, Perpetrator Dynamics, and Legal Issues
Spousal Abuse Assessment and Reporting

Talks & Presentations

The Clinical Approach to Helping Therapists Work With Couples Heal from Infidelity (NJAWT)
Understanding Forgiveness (The Couples Summit)
When We Become Three (Doula Care Paris)
Relationships: Unpacking the Myths & Getting It Right
Three Exciting Ways to Turn Up the Heat In Your Relationship
Open Forum Chat with Bestfield Moms on How to Stop Fighting About Mone