Couples Therapy

Couples Therapy in the Bay Area & Southern California

In-Person Sessions Available in Oakland

Dr. Joel Crohn offers couples therapy to help partners navigate challenges and strengthen their relationships. With a focus on open communication and mutual understanding, he provides support for various issues, from conflict resolution to enhancing intimacy. You can choose from convenient virtual appointments or in-person sessions.

What Happens in Couples Therapy?

During couples therapy you will identify the root issues that are causing conflict. Blue Sky Psychiatry will provide a therapeutic, safe forum with set times to work on relationship problems. Your doctor will personally monitor and nurture your progress.

Interfaith, Interracial, and Intercultural Couples Counseling

Dr. Joel Crohn is a nationally-recognized marriage counseling authority. With more than thirty years of practical experience in clinical psychology, Dr. Crohn specializes in helping interfaith and interracial couples work through issues and develop strategies to create successful relationships. He is the author of Mixed Matches: How to Create Successful Interracial, Interethnic, and Interfaith Relationships.

Jewish Marriage

Dr. Joel Crohn is the author of Beyond the Chuppah: A Jewish Guide to Happy Marriages. He has conducted groundbreaking research on Jewish relationships and has taught professionals and worked with Jewish and interfaith couples for over thirty years.

Marriage & Couples Counseling

Heal Wounds ◆ Move Forward

Couples therapy is a process for better understanding each other’s feelings, hopes, concerns, and interpersonal styles. Therapy helps facilitate healing from broken trust and destructive patterns.

Meet Our Team

Our team includes a psychiatrist, a psychiatric physician assistant, and a psychologist who work collaboratively to help you and your family. We provide medication management and psychotherapy.

Joel Crohn, Ph.D.

Sr. Psychologist

“This important book combines modern social-scientific research and traditional Jewish wisdom to help couples resurrect the buried promises of friendship and responsibility, and the joy of love.”

—Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
Author of For Those Who Can’t Believe

“An excellent resource for partners who are seeking to understand the blend of their two cultures…I highly recommend this book.”

—Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School.

Patient Testimonials

Joel Crohn, the author of Mixed Matches is in private practice here in the east bay.. He is truly an expert at interfaith therapy.

Berkeley Parents Network Berkeley, California

Joel Crohn makes us laugh and then cry over the misunderstandings that develop in cross-cultural relationships–and then provides useful guidelines for couples to work out their relationships.

Monica McGoldrick, MSW Director of the Multicultural Family Institute.

Mixed Matches offers good advice for dealing with family members & friends when marrying someone of a different race or culture. The book is a must read for any individual involved in or considering a relationship/marriage with someone of a different race. Keep it as a guide. I love it.

D. Dominguez Amazon Review

Beyond the Chuppah is a much needed book that combines proven research on marital relationships with special insights on Jewish belief systems and very sound in terms of what really helps couples save and improve their marriages…this book is a lifesaver and truly a mitzvah.

Celia Falicov, Ph.D. Past President of American Family Therapy Academy

Dr. Joel Crohn is really good. At least call him and talk to him. He's good with teens and with families. Berkeley Parents Network