Blog
A Family Needs To Grieve The Loss Of Their Old Way Of Life Due To COVID-19
Remote Family Therapy During COVID-19: Families Are Experiencing A Loss Of Their Typical Everyday Life And Routine. While doing remote family therapy over the phone and video chat such as Skype and Zoom these past few weeks, I’ve been talking to families that have been thrust into a new life–schools closing, both parents working from home, nannies or sitters ending their care or moving in,…
Apr 07, 2020
We Need To Ask Better Questions Of Each Other: 12 Questions To Ask Teens
Asking Teens Better Questions Can Help Them Establish (And Reestablish) Who They Are Becoming . For the final incarnation of my series on how to ask better questions in our relationships, I’m focusing on teens. A teen needs to be asked deeper and better questions so that parents and other important adults in their life can get to know the ever-moving, ever-shifting person a teen is and is…
Mar 19, 2020
We Need To Ask Better Questions Of Each Other: 10 Questions To Ask Elementary-Aged Children
Elementary-Aged Kids Aren’t Usually Asked Deeper Questions: It’s Time We Start. Parents and other adults often ask questions of elementary-aged children quickly like a laundry list to address physical and immediate emotional needs. Adults don’t usually ask kids questions in exploration, but as a way to gather concrete data about socialization or academics. Kids aren’t typically asked what they’re…
Mar 12, 2020
We Need To Ask Better Questions Of Each Other: 7 Questions To Ask Young Adults Who Recently Graduated College
After College, Young Adults Are In Transition: Asking Better Questions Can Help . Continuing my series on how to ask better questions in our relationships, young adults who have recently graduated college are at a transitional moment in which asking deeper questions of them can be particularly helpful. Post-college graduation is one of the most unknown, exciting, sad, scary, wonderful and lonely…
Mar 05, 2020
We Need To Ask Better Questions Of Each Other: 9 Questions To Ask A Partner
Better Questions Create Closer, Continually Evolving Relationships. In general, we suck at asking questions to the people around us, particularly once we feel comfortable in our relationships. We assume we know them and that we don’t need to ask these intimate, sometimes uncomfortable questions any longer. However, asking deeper questions (questions beyond the simple daily “How are you?”, “What…
Feb 27, 2020
Off-Limit Feelings For Men And Women Are Often Different: Therapy Should Be Too
Feelings And Actions That Are Forbidden For Men And Women Are Different. In a recent New York Times Op-Ed, author Holly Whitaker explores her experience with substance use recovery that was notably not done using an AA program. She writes that the current tenets and values of AA were derived from a patriarchal antidote to (white, heterosexual) male privilege with its founders believing that, as…
Feb 20, 2020
You Don't Hit Rock Bottom: You Declare It
Hitting Rock Bottom Is Too Passive. Rock bottom is often used in the context of alcoholism or drug abuse. However, it can be true with regard to staying in a bad relationship or abusive work environment, avoiding getting more childcare or tolerating painful emotions without help.The most common phrase concerning rock bottom is “hitting rock bottom.” This language, though, can be unhelpful because…
Feb 13, 2020
Tribeca Therapy Quoted In Two Articles On Couples And Relationships In Business Insider
Business Insider recently featured Tribeca Therapy in two articles, drawing on our practice’s expertise in couples therapy and relationship therapy. Talking with our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist, the articles focus in particular on codependency in relationships and how to discuss challenging issues between partners, including difficulties living together, and lack of sex and…
Feb 06, 2020
How Not To Get Screwed In Therapy The First Time
Therapy is often uncomfortable, and it is probably the most so when you’re just starting out. While the first few sessions will probably be a bit uncomfortable (and that can be okay and even, a good thing), it shouldn’t feel like you’re being observed or studied, that you’re just another person walking through a therapist’s office, or that they can’t handle what you’re bringing to them. When…
Jan 30, 2020
Matt Lundquist and Kelly Scott Quoted In Two Relationship Advice Columns In Business Insider
This past month, both our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist and Senior Therapist Kelly Scott were quoted in two Business Insider advice columns on relationships and dating. The articles are a part of Insider’s resident sex and relationships reporter Julia Naftulin’s ongoing column that answers readers’ questions by consulting with a panel of experts including relationship therapists…
Jan 23, 2020
You Can Be In A Relationship And Still Be Lonely
Loneliness In A Relationship Often Feels Shameful And Goes Unspoken. When we talk about loneliness, we often don’t think of the feeling in terms of being in a relationship. When married or in a relationship, the presumption is that we’ve found our person: the one person who will make us feel not so lonely. However, this isn’t always the case. Though it often goes unspoken, loneliness happens…
Jan 16, 2020
Tribeca Therapy On How Different Attachment Styles Handle Breakups In Well + Good
Attachment is a powerful, often hidden determinant in who we’re drawn to in relationships. Recently, Well + Good featured Tribeca Therapy in an article on how different attachment styles deal with breakups. Writer Nikhita Mahtani defines the four attachment styles–secure, anxious, dismissive-avoidant and fearful-avoidant–and speaks with our Founder and Clinical Director Matt on how these styles…
Jan 09, 2020Browse all Tribeca Therapy topics
Connect with one of our senior therapists to make a plan to get started
Or email us directly: inquiries@tribecatherapy.com