Dr. Marissa Tunis is a California and New York State licensed psychologist, specializing in treating chronic relationship difficulties. Dr. Tunis works with individuals, couples and families to address maladaptive relational patterns, communication deficits, infidelity, substance abuse disorders, codependency, and chronic mental illnesses.
For more than 18 years, she has helped people transform their lives through healing traumas, shifting problematic thinking, bolstering confidence and improving relationship dynamics. She has been trained in and employs several approaches in her work, including: Psychodynamic, Cognitive-Behavioral, Mindfulness-Based, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Internal Family Systems and EMDR. Dr. Tunis uses humor and warmth to connect with clients who present as resistant to treatment and is skillfully adept at conducting sessions with high conflict partners.
