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Yin and Yang Can Be Oil And Water (Or Baking Soda And Vinegar)
From Yin and Yang To Peas and Carrots: Opposite Clichés Are Popular Romance Shorthand, But They’re Also Fraught. Yin and yang can be oil and water, or baking soda and vinegar. Peas and carrots can be like cats and dogs. As a couples therapist, I’ve heard all the cliché opposites romance metaphors. The status of opposites is a popular sub-genre of love and romance. I recognize both their virtue…
Jul 25, 2019
More Than Roses: Teaching Men How To Be Close To Their Female Partners
Men, Finding Intimacy With Your Female Partner Takes More Than Flowers. Before I became a therapist, I was already teaching men how to be close and find intimacy with their female partners. When I was in high school, I talked to the football players about not just getting their girlfriends roses for Valentine’s Day by default. For the record, I wasn’t so cool (more nerd-adjacent), but while these…
Jul 18, 2019
The Importance Of Grieving Traumatic Birth Experiences: Two NYC Therapists Discuss 'Kid Gloves'
Recently, two of our therapists, Rachael Benjamin and Nora Dankner, who both work with patients on fertility, pregnancy and postpartum-related issues, read the adult graphic novel Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley as a part of a ongoing project to explore books, podcasts, articles, and talks that address fertility, loss, miscarriage, pregnancy, and postpartum in order to thoughtfully examine how these…
Jun 27, 2019
Beyond Having Compatible Love Languages: Couples Should Build With Their Differences
More Than The Right Love Language: A Couple’s Resiliency Depends On Learning To Value Their Differences. Couples frequently come into couples therapy wanting or hoping that their partner will change in some specific manner so that they feel more connected, supported and heard. Recently, one way both couples and individuals have voiced their concerns to me about their partners has been in terms of…
Jun 20, 2019
We Both Love Your Kid: A Letter To Parents From Your Child's Therapist
Dear Parents,Thank you for sharing your kid and bringing a therapist into their lives. As a parent, you have been caring for this person for so long. You got through the long nights with them as a baby. You helped them through their first feelings. You taught them what the world was. I’m so grateful for that foundation and love you laid out. You helped them through their first disappointments,…
Jun 06, 2019
Introducing Jordan Conrad, LMSW, MPhil, and Liz Graham, LMSW
Tribeca Therapy is currently in a growth spurt, and as our practice expands, we’ve been eager to bring new therapists on board. Earlier this year, we welcomed both Jordan Conrad, LMSW, MPhil, and Liz Graham, LMSW as staff therapists. Even though Liz and Jordan have appeared on the blog previously in conversations with others on staff, we are excited to introduce both therapists officially:Jordan…
May 30, 2019
What Is Philosophy's Place In The Therapy Room?: Two NYC Therapists Discuss
Matt Lunquist: I have an undergraduate degree in philosophy, but most of my understanding of philosophy comes from largely informal study well after I graduated. I don’t represent myself as an expert in philosophy by any means. Your training is more formal and extensive, and your path towards an integration of the two seems more intentional than my stumbling-upon way of getting here. All that…
May 23, 2019
Debunking The Authority Of The DSM
Non-Diagnostic Therapy: Diagnosis As An Offering For Exploration. A common misunderstanding about our non-diagnostic therapy practice is that non-diagnostic means “no diagnosis” or “diagnosis = bad.” I’m not against diagnosis and not just because of insurance companies. There is a hugely significant body of work that has produced a few hundred diagnoses and an entire underlying framework for…
May 09, 2019
A Collective NYC Therapist Conversation On Building Trust In Therapy
Matt: I’ve been thinking a lot about trust and the ways that we understand it to be the opposite of distrust (The prefix “dis” makes this pretty clear). That understanding is so very wrong, and supports some pretty unself-protective ways of operating. In this construction, trust is a thing, for one who struggles with it, to be nudged forward incrementally.I’ve come to appreciate trust and…
Apr 25, 2019
Tribeca Therapy On The Almost Relationship In InStyle Magazine
What Is An Almost Relationship?. Working with both couples, and individuals that are dating in our NYC therapy practice, we’ve come across a lot of folks that are stuck in relationships that are ambivalent. Recently, Tribeca Therapy was featured in InStyle Magazine delving into what writer Nikhita Mahtani terms “the almost relationship,” meaning a relationship in which there is a reluctance to…
Apr 23, 2019
Compromise Is For Couples Who Don't Know How To Be Close
Compromise Is Temporary, But Closeness Is Unstoppable. Whether they are in crisis or have just hit a bump in the road, the couples that walk into my office for therapy are anxious to get their relationships back to stasis. Grappling with conflicts involving sex, co-parenting, co-habitating, communication, infidelity, open relationships, and how to endure a major crisis or life change, couples are…
Apr 18, 2019
We Should Engage In More Emotional Labor, Not Less
The Problem With The Construction Of Emotional Labor Is It’s Anti-labor. In the last few years, emotional labor has become a frequent topic of conversation, defining it among other kinds of labor that are unequally assigned, usually along gendered lines, with women taking on more of the work. While this discussion is undoubtedly crucial, the way emotional labor has been spoken about inadvertently…
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