Looking for Couples Counseling in Hudson County? There’s a Faster Way — And It’s Headquartered Here.
From Jersey City high-rises to Bayonne two-families, Hudson County couples live close together — and argue close together. Before you commit to months of couples counseling, know your options: NJAMG is headquartered right here on Newkirk Street, our founder spent his legal career inside Hudson County’s own courtrooms, and our mediation process resolves the money, parenting, and household disputes now, privately, with a signed agreement — before they ever reach a docket.
1,000+ Matters Negotiated. Most of Them, Right Here.
Over more than 15 years as a New Jersey attorney and mediator, Santo V. Artusa Jr., J.D., C.A.M.T. has mediated and negotiated more than 1,000 complex, highly emotional, time-sensitive agreements — settlements, family disputes, restraining order resolutions, custody terms, and deals struck under real deadline pressure, a great many of them in Hudson County itself. He has also stood beside families on the day no agreement was reached — and watched what that costs. That is precisely the outcome this service exists to prevent, while the family unit is still intact and still worth fighting for.
Learn more about his background on the Executive Director page, or see the full service overview, process, and pricing on our Couples & Family Mediation main guide.
Why a Negotiator Closes What Jersey City’s Counseling Practices Leave Open
This is our home county — I’ve practiced inside Hudson County’s own courtrooms for fifteen-plus years, and I’ve watched what happens when couples here spend months in traditional counseling instead of a structured negotiation: sessions where the drama and fireworks are simply allowed to go off, real feelings work gets done — and the exact same unresolved argument about money or the apartment or the in-laws is still unresolved a year later. My training isn’t in listening indefinitely — it’s in closing 1,000+ complex agreements under deadline. Hudson County couples get that here: not more talking, a signed result.
— Santo V. Artusa Jr., J.D., C.A.M.T.
Traditional marital counseling has no defined endpoint by design — that’s not a flaw, it’s how talk therapy works. Mediation is built the opposite way: a defined number of sessions, a defined set of disputes, and a signed agreement at the end. Most couples finish in 3 to 5 sessions. Compare that to the 6-, 12-, or 18-month counseling timelines that are standard in the field, often with no written resolution at the end of any of it.
Built for How Hudson County Couples Actually Live
Hudson County is young couples in Hoboken and Jersey City merging finances for the first time, multigenerational households in Union City and West New York negotiating in-law boundaries, and commuter marriages where one partner is in Manhattan twelve hours a day. Each of those pressure points has a mediated answer — a written agreement on money rules, household roles, family boundaries, and how the two of you argue.
Sessions are 100% virtual with private one-on-one caucus rooms — or, uniquely for Hudson County couples, in person by appointment at our Jersey City office at 97 Newkirk Street. You are minutes away from the only lawyer-founded mediation and anger management practice in the state.
When temper is tangled into the disputes, Hudson County couples often combine mediation with the Relationship Anger Management program — same provider, minutes from home, one coordinated plan (see the Couples & Family Hub). And if a dispute has ever brought police to the door, read what follows a domestic argument arrest in NJ — then make sure there is never a second one.
Hudson County Couples Ask Us
Can we meet in person in Jersey City instead of by video?
Yes — Hudson County couples have both options. Most choose virtual sessions with private breakout caucus rooms, but in-person mediation is available by appointment at our office at 97 Newkirk Street, 2nd Floor, Jersey City. Many couples mix the two.
We’re not married — just living together in Hoboken. Can we still mediate?
Absolutely. Cohabitation agreements are one of the most requested mediations in Hudson County: who pays what, how the household runs, what happens to the apartment and belongings if you separate. Settling it in writing now prevents the ugliest version of that conversation later.
Do you offer mediation in languages other than English?
Yes. NJAMG serves clients in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic — a meaningful advantage in Hudson County, where partners and extended family often prefer to negotiate in the language they think in.
We tried couples counseling before and it didn’t go anywhere. Why would this be different?
Because it’s a different tool for a different job. Most marital counseling has no built-in endpoint — it’s designed to keep exploring, which is valuable but open-ended. Mediation is designed to close: a fixed process, a fixed set of disputes, and a signed agreement at the end, typically in a handful of sessions. Santo’s background isn’t clinical — it’s 15+ years of closing negotiated agreements under real deadlines. If your last experience was months of talking in circles, this is built to be the opposite of that.
Every detail — the five-step apart-then-together process, our separate-room caucus privacy protocol, and flat-rate package pricing — is laid out on the main Couples & Family Mediation guide.
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Your mediator is headquartered in this county, has closed over 1,000 hard negotiations, and has seen firsthand what Hudson County families lose when this window passes unanswered. Don’t let it.
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Santo serves as a neutral for both parties; mediation is not legal representation of either partner.
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