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Questions For A Tribeca Remote Therapist During Quarantine
I’m 31 weeks pregnant. I’m healthy, and my OB assures me the labor and delivery units are safe. But I’m anxious all the time about what giving birth during this time might mean, about my health and my baby’s, about possibly having to be alone while I give birth. How do I get through this time?My relationship was in trouble and had a lot of conflict prior to COVID. Now, my partner and I are having…
May 07, 2020
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 3: How Can Couples Work With Hypervigilance?
In the previous parts of this three-part series, I explained how hypervigilance develops and the ways it can be useful, as well as how it can let both partners in a relationship down in substantive ways. For the third and final part of this series, I’ll explore how both individuals and partners can work with hypervigilance in a way that’s additive, rather than threatening, to their…
May 06, 2020
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 2: How Can It Let Couples Down?
In part one of this three-part series, I explored how hypervigilance develops in the first place and how it’s not only useful, but at times a vital protective tool for individuals, couples, and families. In part two, I’m emphasizing four ways that hypervigilance, despite its usefulness, tends to let individuals and their partners down in some substantive ways:Moralistic Thinking. Like most traits…
May 05, 2020
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 1: What Is Hypervigilance And Why Is It Useful?
You Might Have Been Right About COVID-19, But Your Partner Might Find Themselves In The Wrong. Some of my patients in my online therapy sessions have been aware of the massive ramifications of the coronavirus long before even our government. They anticipated the layoffs, the lack of PPE, the “staying inside” directives, and the shortage of access to food. Initially, many of these folks were sent…
May 04, 2020
Therapy For Working From Home: Staying Productive While Freelancing During COVID-19
In our NYC online therapy for working from home, we’ve been talking to a lot of freelancers that, while some may previously have worked from home before the stay-at-home order, are struggling to remain productive living during COVID-19. Freelancers typically work odd hours, grinding out work when they have it because it might be awhile before the next project comes along. This has become…
Apr 23, 2020
Tribeca Therapy On Avoiding Conflicts During Self-isolation In The New York Post
In our NYC online therapy sessions, we’ve, understandably, received a lot of questions about dealing with self-isolating at home. Between the cramped quarters and being home more than ever before, conflicts between people in the home can naturally come up, whether with a couple, parents and school-aged kids, college students who moved back home or roommates. Speaking specifically to the…
Apr 16, 2020
Being Physically Together In An Apartment Is Not The Same As Spending Time Together As A Couple
Just Because A Couple Is Together All Day Every Day In Quarantine Doesn’t Mean The Relationship Is Getting What It Needs. One of the particular challenges about relationships in the time of the coronavirus that I’ve been talking about with patients in my teletherapy and online couples therapy sessions is how to manage the competing needs we all have for alone time and connectedness with…
Apr 14, 2020
Stay-At-Home Order While Pregnant: 6 Ways To Get What You Need During A Scary Time
COVID-19 Changed The Way People Have To Organize Caring For Their Needs While Pregnant. For the pregnant patients I’ve spoken to in my remote therapy sessions, preparation for a baby, whether it is the first or second (or third or…), is stressful on a good day–not to mention during a pandemic. COVID-19 changed how pregnant women get care for both their physical and emotional needs seemingly…
Apr 13, 2020
Working From Home While The Kids Are At Home During COVID-19: 5 Ways To Emotionally Survive
Trying To Parent Kids Who Are At Home While Working From Home During COVID-19 Is Overwhelming For Families. For the families I’ve talked to in my online family therapy sessions, self-isolation due to COVID-19 has meant dealing with the rapid transition to working from home while the kids are at home. This is an enormous change for families–even parents who worked at home before COVID-19 had…
Apr 13, 2020
Tolerating Uncertainty Doesn't Mean Expecting The Worst-Case Scenario, Even During COVID-19
Patients Ask Us In Teletherapy: How Are We Supposed To Tolerate Uncertainty During COVID-19?. We are living in a hugely uncertain time right now. Doing online therapy in NYC, we make sure to emphasize to patients that it’s okay to be scared, sad and angry right now. It’s okay not to know. We don’t know what’s going to happen, how long our usual routines will be so starkly disrupted and what the…
Apr 10, 2020
Couples, Stay Vigilant To Not Regress During The Stress Of Quarantine
Being Stuck In Self-Quarantine Creates A Stage For A Relationship’s Cracks To Appear. Despite some anticipated logistical challenges (aka smooshing two people in front of a laptop or an iPhone), my couples therapy practice has remained busy through the transition to remote couples therapy sessions during the beginning of quarantine due to COVID-19. While my couples’ challenges span a variety of…
Apr 07, 2020
Tribeca Therapy On New Couples In Self-isolation In The BBC
In our remote couples therapy sessions, we’ve spoken to couples via the phone and video chat at various stages of their relationship, from long-time married couples to new couples, that are now in self-isolation together. Recently, the BBC featured Tribeca Therapy in an article focusing on the latter–couples that are now living together early on in their relationship because of COVID-19.Speaking…
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