Therapy & Counseling Services in New York & California
Welcome to Cornell & Associates Marriage and Family Therapy. This private practice is glad you’re here. Beginning therapy can be an important step, especially when anxiety, chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, or relationship difficulties start to impact daily life. If you’re feeling stuck in patterns that are hard to shift—or unsure where to begin—therapy can provide a steady, supportive space to gain clarity and move forward.
Cornell & Associates offers therapy and counseling services for individuals and couples in New York and California, including online therapy statewide. Whether you’re seeking support for anxiety, relational concerns, life transitions, or emotional regulation, the work is designed to help you strengthen insight, build resilience, and create meaningful, sustainable change at a pace that feels grounded and manageable.
Cornell & Associates Marriage and Family Therapy
Cornell & Associates Marriage and Family Therapy is a private practice offering individual therapy and couples counseling for concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, postpartum and women’s mental health, relationship challenges, life transitions, and more. Therapy provides a supportive space to slow down, gain clarity, and build healthier ways of coping and relating to yourself and others.
Services are available in New York and California, including online therapy statewide, with in-person sessions in New York City and San Diego.
Areas of Support
Anxiety Therapy
Support for chronic worry, panic, overthinking, and anxiety-driven patterns that impact daily life. Common areas include Social Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Health Anxiety, Relationship & Attachment Anxiety, OCD-Related Anxiety, Existential Anxiety, and High-Functioning Anxiety.
Depression Therapy
Depression can affect mood, motivation, sleep, and a sense of meaning or connection. Therapy offers a supportive space to process what feels heavy, understand emotional patterns, and begin moving toward greater stability and hope. Common areas include persistent sadness, emotional numbness, low motivation, fatigue, burnout, loss of interest or pleasure, low self-esteem, increased irritability, negative thinking patterns, social withdrawal, difficulty concentrating, sleep disruption, and depression that co-occurs with anxiety.
Postpartum & Women’s Mental Health
Hormonal transitions and reproductive life stages can shape emotional well-being, nervous system regulation, and relationships. Therapy provides a grounded space to address mood changes, anxiety, overwhelm, and identity shifts connected to pregnancy, postpartum, and major parenthood-related decisions. Common areas include Women’s Mental Health Therapy, Pregnancy & Postpartum Therapy, Perimenopause & Menopause Support, Parenthood Decision-Making Counseling, and Child-Free Choice Support.
Trauma Therapy
Trauma can affect the nervous system, relationships, and the ability to feel safe or present in daily life. Therapy supports healing at a steady pace, helping clients process experiences and build a stronger sense of internal safety. Common areas include childhood trauma, relational trauma, complex trauma (C-PTSD), PTSD symptoms, emotional flashbacks, hypervigilance, shutdown or dissociation, grief and loss, nervous system dysregulation, and difficulty trusting or feeling secure in relationships.
Life Transitions Therapy
Life transitions can bring uncertainty, grief, pressure, or a loss of direction—even when the change is “supposed” to be positive. Therapy can support clients through major stages such as adolescence, young adulthood, marriage, career decisions, family changes, and identity shifts.
Relationship Therapy (Individual + Couples)
Relationships can bring up communication challenges, disconnection, mistrust, or repeated patterns that feel difficult to break. Therapy helps clients strengthen emotional insight, build healthier dynamics, and create more secure connection. Common areas include communication issues, recurring conflict, emotional distance, trust concerns, attachment patterns, relationship anxiety, infidelity recovery, boundary setting, navigating breakups, rebuilding intimacy, and improving relational stability in long-term partnerships.
Codependency
Codependency often involves overgiving, people-pleasing, difficulty setting boundaries, or feeling responsible for other people’s emotions. Therapy supports clients in building self-trust, clarity, and relationships that feel more balanced and mutual. Common areas include anxious attachment, fear of abandonment, emotional caretaking, overfunctioning in relationships, difficulty saying no, guilt or anxiety when setting boundaries, staying in unhealthy dynamics, conflict avoidance, needing approval to feel secure, loss of identity in relationships, and patterns of enabling or self-sacrifice.
Self-Compassion
Harsh self-criticism can keep clients stuck in anxiety, shame, or emotional exhaustion. Therapy can help clients strengthen self-compassion, soften internal pressure, and develop a more supportive relationship with themselves.
Dream Analysis
Dream work can offer insight into emotions, stress, or relational patterns that may be difficult to access directly. Therapy can help clients explore recurring themes and connect dreams to their deeper inner experience.
Hypnotherapy / Hypnosis
Hypnotherapy can be a supportive approach for clients who want to work with the subconscious mind to shift patterns, reduce anxiety, and strengthen emotional regulation. Therapy may include guided hypnosis to support deeper insight, nervous system calming, and lasting change. Common areas include stress and anxiety relief, panic symptoms, sleep support, performance and confidence, habit change, emotional healing, trauma-informed hypnotherapy, and strengthening self-esteem and self-compassion.
What We Treat
Cornell & Associates supports a wide range of concerns, but therapy is never one-size-fits-all. Rather than focusing only on symptoms or labels, the work is centered on the whole person—your experiences, relationships, history, and the way life feels day to day. The approach is thoughtful and individualized, with care that meets you where you are and supports meaningful, lasting change.
Our Services
Cornell & Associates offers therapy that is tailored to each client’s needs, goals, and pace. Support is available for individuals and couples across different life stages and relationship structures, with an approach that integrates psychological insight and a grounded, holistic perspective. Therapy is guided by empathy, honesty, and flexibility—creating a collaborative space where clients feel respected, understood, and supported in meaningful change.
“I have been a patient of Andrea’s for many years now. I find her approach extremely helpful. I actually think that thanks to her help I am able to have the strength to follow my dreams, to confront my weaknesses and to continue to work on myself. Andrea is warm, understanding and openminded.
I love the fact that in her practice she is open to trying new things, such as holistic treatments, meditation, breathing exercises, art therapy and many more.
I tried therapy a few times before and working with Andrea doesn’t compare to working with anyone else. She is an incredible and professional person that truly cares about helping people. I am so glad, I have found her.”
Zofi L.
“Finding a therapist like Andrea is quite rare. Everything about her is warm and inviting. She is very open minded and present which put me right at ease. It honestly feels like you are talking to a close friend. She is extremely insightful and has a lot of wisdom about the human experience. She is holistic in her background and understands the mind /body connection. I honestly would recommend her whole heartedly to anyone looking for an excellent therapist. She is a true gem.”
Sydney S.
MEET OUR FOUNDER
ANDREA CORNELL, LMFT
Andrea Cornell is the founder of Cornell & Associates Marriage and Family Therapy, a private practice centered on thoughtful, individualized care. Her approach is grounded in supporting each person as a whole—mind, body, and emotional experience—while creating a safe space for both deeper exploration and practical change. By combining insight-focused therapy with a holistic perspective, Andrea helps clients feel more secure within themselves, strengthen emotional resilience, and move toward meaningful healing.
