Tribeca Therapy

Creative Psychotherapy in New York City

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Blog
212.571.5799
Call or email us for a phone consultation.
  • couples
  • teens
  • families
  • art therapy
  • depression
  • job inquiries
  • anxiety
  • trauma/PTSD
  • anger
  • aspergers
  • what is non-diagnostic therapy

Tribeca Therapy’s Matt Lundquist And Kelly Scott Quoted In Business Insider And INSIDER

mm

Matt Lundquist

A Columbia University-trained psychotherapist with more than a decade of clinical experience, I’ve come to believe that what it means to help people in therapy is to help them create their lives and I relish in this challenging, playful activity.

Posted on November 19, 2019 in Couples Therapy and Relationships, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

We’re excited to share that Business Insider and INSIDER featured Tribeca Therapy as relationship experts in two recent articles. Drawing on our couples therapy practice, and work with relationships more generally, Business Insider asked both our Founder and Clinical Director Matt and Senior Therapist Kelly for book recommendations on relationships. Likewise, Insider encouraged Kelly to explore the useful relationship lessons that can be gathered from the TV show Gossip Girl.

The first article “The 5 Books That Relationship Therapists Think Everyone Should Read” offered some reading recommendations courtesy of Tribeca Therapy. This includes Matt’s recommended pick Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish’s How To Talk So Your Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk. While it might seem like an unusual recommendation for couples, the book is the best available set of instructions for having meaningful conversations where the work is being done to really make the other person feel heard. As Matt says, “These are basic rules for making someone feel heard and communicating when someone is upset.”

Kelly’s book choice The 5 Love Languages: The Secret To Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman is also related to being open and curious about how to meet a partner’s needs. We all have different experiences that influence how we interpret love, caring and affection. Kelly recommends the book less for the organization of the five “love languages,” but more because it’s built on the premise that our experience is our reality, and our partner needs to care about that and take it seriously. 

In Insider’s “8 relationship lessons you can learn from ‘Gossip Girl’, according to a therapist,” Kelly observes the practical advice viewers can learn from The CW show, particularly from its frequently dysfunctional relationships. These tips include the danger of playing games with a partner or potential partner like Chuck and Blair on the show. As Kelly notes, “Manipulation and coercion are the enemies of true intimacy.” She also discusses how to approach the transition from a friend into a romantic relationship, which she says, “requires open communication, flexibility and confidence.” 

« older
newer »

Leave a comment: Cancel reply

*

Required field

matt lundquist, LCSW MSEd

A Columbia University-trained psychotherapist with more than a decade of clinical experience, I've come to believe that what it means to help people in therapy is to help them create their lives and I relish in this challenging, playful activity.

read more

contact us

recent posts

If Being Around Family During The Holidays Sucks, It’s Time For A Shake Up

Tribeca Therapy On The Stress Of Signing A Mortgage And Other Big Life Decisions In HerMoney

8 Bad Reasons To Become A Therapist

Tribeca Therapy’s Matt Lundquist And Kelly Scott Quoted In Business Insider And INSIDER

Real Love is Not Being Able to Say Whatever You Want

follow us

get posts via email

enter email address:

Tribeca Therapy | 79 Chambers, 2nd Floor | New York, NY 10007 | 212.571.5799

All content copyright - . © Tribeca Therapy. All rights reserved.

Website design by Rowboat Media LLC
MENU
  • couples
  • teens
  • families
  • art therapy
  • depression
  • anxiety
  • trauma/PTSD
  • anger
  • aspergers
  • non-diagnostic therapy