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What Makes Millennials The Loneliest Generation?: Two NYC Therapists Discuss
Earlier this year, YouGov published an article citing data that Millennials feel lonely much more than Generation X or Baby Boomers. According to their findings, 30% percent of Millennials say they always or often feel lonely, compared to 20% of Gen X and 15% of Baby Boomers. Two of our therapists–Jordan Conrad and Emily Stuart–respond to the article with a conversation:Jordan Conrad: I really…
Oct 17, 2019
Tribeca Therapy On Why Couples Fall Out Of Love In Business Insider
Falling Out Of Love In A Relationship Is Often Due To A Change In Intimacy. We often think of attraction as both mysterious and binary, as well as primarily physical, or at least, ineffable. While there’s plenty of mystery, changes in being in love or attraction often has very real corollaries. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt was recently featured in Business Insider about why couples may…
Oct 10, 2019
How Parents Can Help Their College Student's Transitional Anxiety
Starting College Is A Social And Emotional Transition For Your Young Adult. When your young adult goes to college, parents are aware that the academic challenges will increase. But what we don’t often talk to our kids about–and what frankly can be hard to discuss–is that there is a big transition for young adults in college both socially and emotionally. Your college student has to navigate brand…
Oct 03, 2019
Tribeca Therapy's Kelly Scott Quoted On Relationships In Insider
We’re excited to share that our therapist Kelly Scott was recently featured in two articles in Insider. In both articles, Kelly provided commentary on relationships, drawing on her experience as a couples and relationship therapist.In “MTV’s ‘Ghosted’ helps people confront friends and lovers who ditched them without warning,” Kelly spoke with writer Julia Naftulin about how the new MTV show could…
Sep 26, 2019
Why I Want To See Your Dating Profile
Dating Apps Help Us Talk About Who You’re Attracting And Attracted To. While it may not be what brings them into therapy, a good portion of my work with most patients includes looking at their relationship history, examining what went wrong with specific people, identifying patterns, and talking about how to make better choices in the future. In 2019, this relationship history often involves…
Sep 19, 2019
Neglect is Sexy
Why Do People Find Neglect Sexy In Relationships?. Most people have had a relationship–or at the very least, seen their friends in one–in which they’re chasing the other person for their affection, attention, and time. From the outside, these relationships can seem perplexing. But from the inside, people are often strongly hooked in. Why? I sometimes joke with patients that it is because neglect…
Sep 12, 2019
Rather Than Getting Rid Of Anxiety, We Should Find A Fluid Way To Relate To It
Dealing With Anxiety Is More Complex Than Simply Getting Rid Of It . In both psychology and our culture at large, we often talk about treating anxiety by getting rid of it completely. Within this framework, there is one outcome for dealing with anxiety: not having anxiety. This thinking can corner people who are struggling, and make them feel stuck with the seemingly insurmountable task of…
Sep 05, 2019
Announcing Heather Mayone Kiely, LCAT As Director Of Tribeca Therapy
We’re excited to announce that Heather Mayone Kiely, LCAT has been appointed to the position of Director at Tribeca Therapy. As our practice has continued to grow considerably, we recognize that we grow by doing excellent clinical work. Heather has been an increasingly valued contributor to that, and this new role as Director is understood a celebration of her clinical expertise and leadership in…
Sep 03, 2019
Don't Hide After A Breakup: You Need Your Friends, Family, And Therapist
Breaking Up Is Painful And Isolating: A Team Of Your Friends, Family, And Therapist Can Provide Support. As a therapist, I see how people want to hide after a breakup. Often they are embarrassed, feeling at a loss, or that life as they know it doesn’t make sense or compare to their peers. There’s also a sense that they’d be bothering their friends by being in pain in front of someone who is…
Aug 29, 2019
Love is Always Conditional
The Myth of Unconditional Love Can Keep Couples In Unsafe Relationships. Patients frequently talk to me in therapy about their expectations of unconditional love in their romantic relationships, as well as the struggle of giving or receiving it. When I respond with, “Well, love is always conditional,” I’m consistently met with shock. That response is understandable. Culturally, we are fed the…
Aug 27, 2019
What Is The Role Of Love In Therapy?: Two NYC Therapists Discuss
Heather Mayone Kiely: One of the first things I noticed about how you approach couples therapy was your deep belief in love and in the relationship. You seem to really identify and connect quickly with a couple’s strengths, becoming a very powerful source for love and the relationship. It’s almost as if the relationship is a third entity that the couple has asked you to represent. Of course, all…
Aug 22, 2019
Hey Busy Couples: The Enemy Is Stress, Not Each Other
We’re Alienated From Stress, Both In Our Culture At Large And Our Relationships. For couples in which one or both partners are under stress, it can be easy to turn that frustration onto the other partner. Most people don’t have others they can get mad at, so their partner becomes the person who they can take it out on, sometimes without recognizing that the deeper problem is stress.Part of this…
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