We Specialize in Relationships
A Specialty Practice in Couple’s Counseling, Post-Separation Coparenting, and Divorce Dynamics
Upstate Marriage and Family Therapy is pleased to welcome our new Specialty Intern, Allison Osborn. Allison brings a robust background in community and behavioral health to our team. She holds a Bachelor of Science from SUNY Polytechnic Institute and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at Capella University.
Allison’s extensive experience as a Preventative Case Planner and Multi-Systemic Therapist has honed her skills in understanding and facilitating change within complex relationship dynamics. She adeptly employs Emotionally Focused Therapy and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy techniques to assist clients in navigating challenges, strengthening relationships, and achieving meaningful change.
built on the foundations of academic research and real-world experience
Couple's Counseling, parenting, & Coparenting Consulting
Today’s world is fast, socially and digitally complex, and, in many ways, overstimulating. This poses challenges to our ability to effectively manage our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and can make it hard to maintain healthy and effective relationships with our loved ones.
Dr. Kovacs specializes in complex coparenting and couples’ dynamics in intact and separated families. He understands how these complexities affect our relationships with our children and our children’s other parent, and how these dynamics impact our preferred parenting styles. Dr. Kovacs knows how essential friendships and support systems can break down following a divorce or separation, and he understands how easily we can lose touch with deeply held values and beliefs. Using a no-nonsense, consultative approach to coparenting, Dr. Kovacs can help you create meaningful difference in your life and in the lives of your children.
Intervention and consultation that is driven by research. The result is long-lasting change.
Services
Parenting Coordination
As a specialist in coparenting dynamics, Greg helps parents put the best interest of their children first and will use the latest research on parenting in intact and separated families to help parents negotiate a parenting plan that fits the needs of each parent, child, and family involved
Couple's Counseling
State of the science counseling techniques emphasize cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), family system theory, and solution-focused therapy to resolve conflict, improve communication skills, and strengthen and rebuild your relationship. Designed to achieve actionable and effective results
Coparenting Consulting
Parental separation will always be difficult for children. Using the latest research on the effects of divorce and separation on parenting Greg will help you and your coparent to overcome those difficulties to minimize or avoid the negative effects of separation on your children
Courses & Seminars
Greg offers seminars and workshops throughout New York State to help intact and separated couples establish effective and actionable and insight-oriented coparenting and relationship practices
CENTRAL NEW YORK'S SPECIALTY
COUPLE'S COUNSELING AND COPARENTING PROGRAM
About Greg Kovacs, PhD, LMFT
NYS Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, owner
Greg holds a master’s degree (MS) in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of New Hampshire and a PhD in Family Science from Syracuse University with a research specialty in post-separation coparenting.
Dr. Kovacs is a Utica, New York-based licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who specializes in couple’s counseling and post-relationship coparenting. His evidence-based counseling techniques emphasize cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), family system theory, and solution-focused therapy to achieve actionable and effective results.
In addition to his private practice, Dr. Kovacs is a highly sought-after, engaging public speaker on topics related to relationship health, parenting, and coparenting dynamics, offering online and in-person seminars and workshops.