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Couples Who Have Been Together Since Their Teens Part 2: How You Can Shake Things Up In Couples Therapy
The Tipping Point. In the first half of this two-part series, I explained why couples who have been dating since their teens can struggle a decade or so later as they continue to grow. Though most times the relationship has stopped serving both partners, typically one partner begins to feel more urgency in examining the relationship. Often, this comes with individual work in therapy or sometimes…
Feb 11, 2021Couples Who Have Been Together Since Their Teens Part 1: Why You Need To Shake Things Up
Couples who begin dating in their teens and early twenties can struggle as each partner continues to grow. I see a number of couples and individuals in my NYC virtual therapy practice who have been dating since their teens/early 20s. A decade (or so) later, they come to therapy struggling in their relationships, often in ways that are hard to pinpoint or articulate. Individuals grow like weeds in…
Feb 09, 2021What the Culture Is Missing in Maternity Care and Why We're Doing It Differently: A Conversation Between Tribeca Maternity Director Rachael Benjamin and Therapist Emily Stuart
Last year, we launched the new branch of our practice Tribeca Maternity with Senior Therapist Rachael Benjamin as Director. Rachael is a specialist and a leader in the field of maternity and women’s health and through her work, she has witnessed the help women, their partners, and their families typically receive. Her observations on the need for specialized therapeutic attention during maternity…
Feb 04, 2021All the Places Patients Are Seeing Their Therapist From During COVID-19
When our practice went entirely virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic nearly a year ago, our patients also had to adjust to online therapy while dealing with fear and uncertainty, economic challenges, and childcare struggles. At first, they simply needed help. People were afraid.As the first few weeks of quarantine went on, there was, for many patients (and some on the team), some hesitation about…
Jan 26, 2021All the Places We've Done Therapy From During COVID-19
As we approach the year anniversary of our practice going entirely remote in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, it seemed like an appropriate time to reflect. This has been a year of different phases. Initially, we were in triage mode, hyper-focused on getting ourselves set up to work remotely and help our patients do the same, alongside all of the related challenges during a…
Jan 22, 2021How Can Big Life Transitions Affect Adult Sibling Relationships?: A Conversation With Two NYC Family Therapists
Moving, a new job, marriage, having a new baby. These significant life transitions not only impact the individuals moving, landing that new job, getting married, or that are expecting, but also their siblings in ways that often go overlooked. Reflecting on their experiences practicing family therapy with adult siblings, Senior Therapists Rachael Benjamin and Kelly Scott discussed how big…
Jan 15, 2021Why We Opened a Second Office in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Tribeca Therapy’s New Park Slope, Brooklyn Office Is The Next Step In Our Larger Plan . We recently announced the opening of our second office in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Park Slope has been my residence since I moved there after years in Tribeca where my connection to Lower Manhattan led me to open Tribeca Therapy in 2009. In early 2020, I began offering therapy sessions for the first time from an…
Jan 11, 2021We Need to Talk About Pregnancy in the Pandemic’s Second Wave
Being Pregnant (Or Having A Partner Who Is Pregnant) During The Pandemic’s Second Wave Is Emotionally Overwhelming In A Different Way Than In The Spring. Providing therapy since the beginning of the pandemic, I’ve seen firsthand the toll it’s taken on pregnant women, their partners, and their families, particularly recently during this second wave. In the spring, there were so many unknowns about…
Dec 29, 2020Am I Married to a Sociopath Like in HBO's The Undoing?: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in The Cut
In HBO’s drama series The Undoing, Grace Fraser, played by Nicole Kidman, is a highly trained psychotherapist who never recognized that her husband of seventeen years, Jonathan (Hugh Grant), was a sociopath. This has led many to wonder: if a Harvard-educated therapist could be in denial (even a fictional one), could I be married to a sociopath? Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist…
Dec 18, 2020Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist on WNYC's All Of It with Alison Stewart on Texting Exes During Quarantine
During periods of isolation and uncertainty such as the COVID-19 pandemic, we tend to seek out comfort in the familiar. For many, this has resulted in either texting–or being on the receiving end of texts from–exes. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist appeared on WNYC’s All Of It with Alison Stewart to discuss why people may be reaching out to former partners during the pandemic, as…
Dec 17, 2020Pregnancy After Miscarriage or Pregnancy Loss: Tribeca Maternity Director Rachael Benjamin on Off the Mat
Being Pregnant After A Miscarriage Or Later-term Pregnancy Loss Can Be Complicated Emotionally. While miscarriages and pregnancy losses rarely get addressed as much as they should, the complex emotions around being pregnant after these early, late-term, or stillbirth losses are also frequently overlooked. In order to make it less intimidating to talk about these experiences, I participated in the…
Dec 10, 2020Senior Therapist Kelly Scott Featured in Two Articles on Anxiety in Yahoo Life
As therapists, we see firsthand how anxiety can come out in a variety of ways. Our Senior Therapist Kelly Scott addresses two of these manifestations–panic attacks and stress eating–and offers some suggestions on how to deal with these experiences in Yahoo Life.Most recently, Kelly was featured in “Panic Attack vs. Anxiety Attack: Is There a Difference and What are the Symptoms?” which explores…
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