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Empathy Is A Superpower And Like Any Great Power, It Needs To Be Protected
Empathy Is A Superpower That Needs To Be Guarded Wisely. Empathy is a fantastic, enlightening, and a phenomenal superpower. However, like any great power, we must also guard it wisely in order to not grant it too easily. We need empathy to be close to our partner, family, friends, kid or kids, and other people in our lives. Our people hopefully also give us empathy when we are doing something…
Apr 11, 2019
Hey Couples, Communication Isn't Your Problem!
Many Couples Seek Couples Therapy For Communication, But That’s Often Not The Problem. Well over fifty percent of new couples that come into my couples therapy practice insist they need help with communication. Couples can be really invested in their definition of “the problem,” and often spend a lot of energy in therapy trying to convince me to get onboard with what they think they need. While…
Apr 03, 2019
How Do Patients Benefit From Therapy With A Group Practice?: A Collective Conversation
Matt: A few years ago, we had a collective conversation about the benefits of working in a group therapy practice itself. Recently, I’ve continued to think about our group practice formulation and want to revisit the topic from a slightly different angle. What do you think are the benefits to our patients about the way our group practice is run? What is in our special group practice…
Mar 14, 2019
Celebrating Ten Years of Therapy in Tribeca
This Friday marks the tenth anniversary of Tribeca Therapy. Celebrating and considering how our practice has grown since I first opened the private practice in 2009, I think of our first little office, borrowing money from my dad to buy furniture, and later assuring Heather, Rachael and Karen after we expanded into a group practice that we were really going to move into a larger office and that…
Feb 28, 2019
Tribeca Therapy On Dealing With Chronic Illness In The New York Times
Chronic Illness Isn’t Just Physical: It’s Also Emotional. Treating patients who are dealing with health-related issues in our NYC therapy practice, we understand that being diagnosed and living with chronic illness not only affects people physically, but also emotionally. We’re excited to have had the opportunity to talk about the many facets of chronic illness recently in The New York Times’…
Feb 21, 2019
Your Therapy And The World Right Now Could Use More Not Knowing
The Humility Of Not Knowing Is Necessary Both In Therapy And In Culture At Large. Both in our NYC therapy practice and in our culture more generally, there is a powerful need for the humility of not knowing. Not knowing can be humbling, and also opens up the possibility for getting help from the outside and reexamining foundational principles. Even smart, caring and capable people sometimes just…
Jan 31, 2019
Tribeca Therapy On How Dating Apps Changed Dating In The Atlantic
As couples therapists in NYC, we’ve witnessed firsthand how dating apps have changed the way couples meet. Tribeca Therapy’s observations on the ways Tinder, Bumble and other apps have transformed dating are featured in The Atlantic’s in-depth feature on the impact of dating apps.Published in conjunction with the five-year anniversary of Tinder becoming widely available on all smartphones in…
Jan 03, 2019
Vulnerability Isn’t An Abstraction: It’s Something We Build With People
We Build Vulnerability With Certain Safe People. In my NYC therapy practice, I find that so often vulnerability is talked about in the abstract, as a thing people are good at, not good at or could get better at. But with whom? We build vulnerability with particular people. There are a few essential conditions for that to happen with a given person. One of them is that person is safe and we go…
Dec 20, 2018
Can You Have Too Much Empathy?
Empathy Is Wonderful, But There Is A Downside. As an NYC therapist, of course, I think empathy is great. A lot of people we know could stand to develop more of it. Empathy has to do with being nice to other people and taking a type of moral stance that prioritizes your best understanding of the impact that a decision or behavior will have on them. However, depending on your early experiences,…
Dec 06, 2018
Complicating The 6 Myths Of Attraction
As An NYC Therapist, I See A Need To Complicate How We Think About, Talk About And Understand Attraction. Is attraction as simple as being attracted to someone or not? Can you be both attracted to and repulsed by someone? What is the relationship between aesthetics and character? Is physical attraction fixed and independent of emotional attraction? What does it mean for attraction to shift over…
Nov 29, 2018
Tribeca Therapy Explores Toxic Relationships With A Parent In Refinery29
While we’ve previously explored on our blog how to set limits with parents and even, end a relationship with an unsafe family member, how do you know if your relationship with your parent or parents is toxic? Refinery29 recently spoke to our NYC therapy practice to discuss what a toxic relationship is and what children, including adult children, can do if their relationship with their parent(s)…
Nov 20, 2018
Parents Need To Be On The Same Page About Parenting
Disagreements About Parenting Can Be Challenging For Both Parents And Kids. Heather and I recently hosted a discussion with parents at Portfolio School, a local independent K-5 school in Tribeca, about when parents aren’t on the same page about parenting. In Heather and my experience, both in our NYC therapy practice and out, the substance of all but the most serious disagreements is never more…
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