Couples and families
Joaquín Ibarra
Couples and families: conflict, distance, trust, two cultures under one roof. The practice's longest evening hours.
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About Joaquín
Couples and families. Sessions in English and Spanish.
Joaquín works with couples and families, many of them sorting out how two cultures, or three generations, share one home.
With couples he looks at the cycle you get caught in rather than at who started it, and with families at the pattern between people rather than at one person as the problem.
He keeps the practice's latest evening hours and its Saturday mornings in the office.
The license line. Licensed clinical social worker — on a real practice's site. This clinician is invented and holds no license; a real clinician's New York license can be checked on the State Education Department's public verification page. Education Law § 7702 (opens the source in a new tab)
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What Joaquín works with
Each of these has a page of its own.
Support for
Identity and culture
For living between two cultures, two languages, or two sets of expectations.
How Joaquín works
In plain words, because a method's name tells you less than what happens in the room.
Emotion-focused couples work
Understanding the cycle a couple gets caught in, and the feelings under it.
Family systems work
Seeing a problem in the pattern between people, not inside one of them.
Narrative therapy
Separating a person from the story a problem tells about them.
Sessions and what they cost
One fee for each kind of session, the same for every clinician here: you choose a clinician for the fit, not for the price.
Joaquín offers couples, family and individual sessions, in person on office days and by video on video days.
- Couples therapy $240 · fifty minutes
- Family therapy $240 · fifty minutes
- Individual therapy $195 · fifty minutes
Fees and insurance The Good Faith Estimate
Out of network. We don't participate in any health insurance networks. If your plan has out-of-network mental health benefits, we can give you a monthly statement (a "superbill") to send in. Whether and how much your plan reimburses is between you and your plan; ask them before you start. If you're using out-of-network benefits, the amount we'll charge is available on request before your first session, and we'll give it to you in writing (Public Health Law § 24).
Joaquín's week
The days and hours sessions run, and when free calls can be booked online.
| Sunday | Not working |
|---|---|
| Monday | 1 pm to 9 pm, by video · calls 12 pm to 1 pm |
| Tuesday | 1 pm to 9 pm, in the office |
| Wednesday | 1 pm to 9 pm, in the office · calls 12 pm to 1 pm |
| Thursday | Not working |
| Friday | Not working |
| Saturday | 9 am to 2 pm, in the office |
Office days and video days. Each clinician's day is either an office day, when every session is in person here, or a video day, when every session is by video. Choose in person or video and the calendar shows you the times that fit.
In New York State. Video sessions are for clients who are physically in New York State at the time of each session, because that is the state a New York license covers. If you're traveling outside New York, we may need to pause video sessions or meet in person when you're back.
Book with Joaquín
The free call, or straight to a first session. The calendar shows only times that are really free.
Nothing clinical online. This form asks only for what an appointment needs: your name, how to reach you, who you'd like to see, what kind of session and when. It never asks why you're coming — that conversation is for your clinician, not for a website — and nothing you type here is shared with an advertiser, a tracker or anyone outside the practice.
- 1What and with whom
- 2Pick a time
- 3Your details
Book a free fifteen-minute call to see whether we're a good fit. It's a conversation about what you're looking for and how we work, by telephone or video — not a therapy session, and there is nothing to pay for it.
Every session booked here comes with a written Good Faith Estimate in the confirmation: the fee for each session and what twelve weekly sessions would come to. The law gives a practice one to three business days to send one (45 CFR 149.610); this one sends it with the confirmation.
Your booking is made.
Every session booked here comes with a written Good Faith Estimate in the confirmation: the fee for each session and what twelve weekly sessions would come to. The law gives a practice one to three business days to send one (45 CFR 149.610); this one sends it with the confirmation.
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Book a free call
Book a free fifteen-minute call, or go straight to a first session if you know what you want. Nothing is paid online, and nothing on the form asks why you're coming.