Travis Atkinson

Travis Atkinson, L.C.S.W., is the director and creator of The Loving at Your Best 5-Step Plan. Travis is a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist and Supervisor, a Certified Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer, a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist, and a Certified Group Psychotherapist. Travis is a Founding Member of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, and is membership director on the board.
Travis has trained couples therapists nationally and internationally for many years, including recent trainings in Italy, South Korea, the Netherlands, and the New England Educational Institute in Cape Cod. Travis is a supervisor and trainer at the Schema Therapy Institute, and is co-author of the latest schema mode therapy inventory, the SMI. He is the author of "Schema Therapy for Couples: Healing Partners in a Relationship" in the recently published Handbook of Schema Therapy. Travis graduated from New York University, with dual graduate degrees in Clinical Social Work and Management. He completed his undergraduate work at Pepperdine University and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Travis is often seen riding his bike on the streets of New York, taking advantage of the beautiful city New York has become. He also loves his second home in Vermont, usually atop a kayak or skiing the slopes of the Green Mountains. He smiles whenever he lands in Holland, one of the few opportunities he has to speak Dutch outside of directing tourists to the best entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge.