WELCOME TO LOVEBONDS
A Relationship Publication Grounded in Clinical Expertise
LoveBonds takes a closer look at romantic relationships. Created by Terri DiMatteo, LPC, this relationship publication draws on her clinical experience as the owner of Open Door Therapy, a private relationship counseling practice serving clients throughout New Jersey. Here, you will find insights on emotional and sexual intimacy, attachment, attraction, trust, betrayal, conflict, repair, and the forces that shape romantic relationships.
We explore these themes through the lens of The Intimacy Bond™, which examines the interwoven exchange between emotional intimacy and sexual expression.
Inside LoveBonds
LoveBonds is grounded in clinical experience and led by Terri DiMatteo, LPC, a relationship therapist and the owner of Open Door Therapy, a private relationship counseling practice serving clients throughout New Jersey. For more than a decade, she has worked with individuals and couples navigating some of the most difficult chapters of their relational lives, including affair recovery, high-conflict divorce, narcissistic relationships, and the challenges of rebuilding trust.
Terri has also been quoted as a relationship expert and contributor by national media including Vogue, The Today Show, Newsweek, and Katie Couric Media. Her clinical work informs the perspective behind LoveBonds, where she examines romantic relationships through the lens of psychology, intimacy, attachment, betrayal, and The Intimacy Bond.
The result is a publication grounded not only in psychological research, but in the lived reality of working with people and couples in the most consequential moments of their relationships.
The Expertise Behind LoveBonds
LoveBonds is the publication; Open Door Therapy is Terri DiMatteo’s professional counseling practice. She provides relationship counseling to individuals and couples throughout New Jersey, with a focus on couples counseling, affair recovery, healing from narcissistic abuse, and relationship challenges.
For information about counseling with Terri, visit Open Door Therapy.
Open Door Therapy
Welcome From Terri
Hello, and welcome to LoveBonds.
We're often told that relationships are hard work: once two people fall in love, they have to keep working at it to make it last. I see it differently. Relationships require know-how.
When you understand how a romantic relationship actually functions, and what it is for, much of what couples struggle with begins to make sense. Difficulties stop looking like proof that something is wrong and start revealing what the relationship needs from the two people in it.
LoveBonds grew out of my work as a relationship therapist, where I developed a new framework for understanding love. Here I look closely at intimacy, attachment, sexuality, trust, betrayal, conflict, and the bond itself. Some of what you'll find runs against conventional wisdom. That's by design: my aim is less mythology and more understanding.
I'm glad you're here.
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MY HOPE FOR YOU
That you begin to see love a little more clearly. You might discover something you hadn't considered, see the familiar in a new light, or find an idea you've trusted turned on its head. And that each visit helps you choose well, nurture the bond that matters, or recognize when it's time to walk away.
TERRI DIMATTEO