The Couple and Family Therapy Center

The Couple and Family Therapy Center (CFTC) offers confidential therapy services to families, couples and individuals who are coping with life’s challenges. Some of the issues most frequently addressed at the Center include resolving relationship difficulties; exploring and affirming diverse gender experiences; easing communication struggles; moving beyond family violence or substance abuse; or transforming emotional distress such as anxiety or depression, grief and loss. CFTC serves diverse clients from across Central New York.

CFTC is located in Peck Hall with satellite sites in the community. The Peck Hall location provides a comfortable therapeutic atmosphere with rooms that offer flexible treatment options, such as talk therapy, play therapy and sand tray interventions. Therapists who begin their training at Peck Hall CFTC are MFT master's or doctoral students in the Department of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) at Syracuse University who work closely under the supervision of licensed therapists. Advanced technology affords students excellent training oversight and ultimately improves the quality of service to clients. CFTC student therapists are trained to offer teletherapy to clients on a HIPAA compliant platform.

Transgender Affirmative Support Team:

The Center features the Transgender Affirmative Support Team (TAST), which provides a unique opportunity for students who want to gain specialized training and experience working with individuals, couples and families with a transgender/gender-diverse-experience. In addition to their general caseload, TAST therapists help families become more attuned to each other as they navigate through the process of gender exploration and/or transition.

The CFTC offers affirmative therapy and does not offer conversion or reparative therapy, or any service that seeks to change one’s gender or sexual identity and acknowledges these experiences as harmful to clients.

The Q Center and ACR Health:

In collaboration with the Q Center at ACR Health, specialized MFT graduate students provide individual, couple and family therapy at the Q Center. The Q Center provides services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning youth and their families in Central New York, Northern New York and the Mohawk Valley. Through the Q Center and MFT collaboration, youth and their families have the ability to access affirming mental health services without costly insurance co-payments or traveling to an unfamiliar location.

Headstart and PEACE, Inc:

In collaboration with Headstart and PEACE. Inc, MFT graduate students provide individual, couple and family therapy at select Headstart locations. Headstart at PEACE, Inc. helps children, ages 3 to 5 years of age, achieve their full potential by providing early childhood development, health, family services and other support to participants and their families. Through the Headstart and MFT collaboration, young children and their families have the ability to access affordable mental health services in settings that are familiar and accessible to the families.

Contact Us

The Couple and Family Therapy Center is located at 601 E. Genesee Street. Day and evening appointments are available Monday through Thursday. For more information, call 315.443.3023, or email SUCFTC@syr.edu.