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Setting Limits With Parents
In Therapy, Setting Limits With Parents Can Be Especially Difficult. In my NYC therapy practice, setting limits with family members, especially parents, can be stressful and raise a variety of concerns. What makes setting limits with parents particularly difficult is that as children, we are supposed to learn limits and values from our parents and then, when we’re adults, they sometimes become…
Jul 12, 2018
Tribeca Therapy On How Survivors Of Sexual Abuse Can Navigate Family Relationships In Refinery29
As a therapy practice who works with sexual abuse survivors and families, Tribeca Therapy recently spoke with Refinery29’s Kasandra Brabaw about how survivors can navigate the complexities of family relationships after abuse. Using Woody Allen’s family as a starting point, Brabaw interviewed our director Matt about how it’s nearly impossible for family members to have a neutral stance on sexual…
Jul 05, 2018
24 Signs You’re In Bad Therapy
Bad Therapy Is Bad For Your Health. As a therapist in NYC, a city with so many therapy options, it bugs me when people are in bad therapy. My biggest concern with patients who stick with bad therapy isn’t only that bad therapy turns people off to therapy, making it less likely they’ll try again and get good help, but it also lowers their expectations. Even when they reach out, they’ve been…
Jun 28, 2018
After Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade's Suicides, Check On Your Friends, But Also Ask About Their Suffering
With Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade’s Deaths, The Impulse Is To Ask Why He Or She Did It, But Can We Understand Why Anyone Would Commit Suicide?. Like many in the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking and talking a lot, both in my NYC therapy practice and out, about Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade’s suicides. Bourdain and Spade were both brilliant. Very little they put out into the world was…
Jun 19, 2018
Tribeca Therapy Talks To Refinery29 About Bipolar Disorder And Kanye West
In our NYC therapy practice, we frequently see how bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses can still be seen as shameful, making it important to challenge this ongoing stigma. However, there is also a risk in romanticizing mental illness. Refinery29 recently asked Tribeca Therapy whether Kanye West was glamorizing mental illness on his new album Ye that refers to bipolar disorder, with which…
Jun 14, 2018
Tribeca Therapy On Why Some Survivors Of Childhood Sexual Abuse Don’t Confront Their Abuse Until Adulthood In Refinery29
[caption id="attachment_5252" align="alignleft" width="250"] Laura Dern in The Tale (Photo: Courtesy of Sundance)[/caption]In our NYC therapy practice, we often see people who have survived childhood sexual abuse only confront this traumatic experience once they reach adulthood. There are many reasons a survivor may only come to terms with their abuse as adults, which is explored in a recent…
Jun 07, 2018
Sharing Our New Teen Therapy-Related Reading
Teen Therapy Can Address A Whole Host Of Topics: Read More On Our Teen Therapy Pages. Working with teens in our Downtown therapy practice, we often see how teens’ experiences and feelings can be brushed off as merely a part of moody and angst-ridden adolescence by parents and other adults. As not only therapists treating teens, but also adults in these teens’ lives, we know that there is a danger…
May 31, 2018
Ending A Relationship With An Unsafe Parent Or Family Member
Cutting Off A Parent Or Other Family Member Can Be Loaded. In my NYC therapy practice, I’ve worked with patients who have had to end a relationship with their mom, dad, sibling and on rare occasions, child. In far more instances, there is a need or desire to pare down the relationship, but there are always questions on how to draw those lines. In some cases though, cutting a family member off…
May 24, 2018
Getting Married? Don't Avoid Talking About The Tough Stuff In Premarital Counseling
Before Your Marriage, It’s Important To Talk About The Tough Stuff In Premarital Counseling. As a NYC therapist who does premarital counseling, I see couples often shy away from discussing the hard stuff before their marriage. But, planning for a marriage is more than just about the venue, the dress or the destination. It’s also important to get close to the dirt under the rug, so to speak–the…
May 17, 2018
Tribeca Therapy Quoted In Two Articles On Spying On Cheating Partners Using Venmo And Sibling Relationships
In the last couple weeks, our NYC therapy practice has been lucky enough to be quoted in two articles. In MarketWatch, our director Matt was quoted on how money can mean many things in a relationship and specifically how the peer-to-peer payment app Venmo can be used as a tool in a battle between two partners. While talking couples therapy in MarketWatch, Matt was also asked by Rewire how to deal…
May 14, 2018
Couples Therapy And The So-so Relationship
Couples Therapy: So-so Relationships Can Be Easy To Ignore. Perhaps the real enemy of happiness isn’t misery so much as mediocrity. As an NYC couples therapist, I find that’s often the case in marriage and long-term relationships. When things are a hot mess with constant fighting, hating spending time together or otherwise not getting along, at least there is still feeling that is likely to get…
May 10, 2018
Are You Stuck In A Bad Friendship?: Learning To Stand Up For Yourself In Therapy
Bad Friendships Are Both A Product And Reinforcement Of A Poor View Of Yourself. Both in my NYC therapy practice and out, I’ve noticed that when we don’t feel good about ourselves, we tend to have poor standards for the friends we hang out with. Friendships are relationships in which people make each other feel good. If that’s not happening, it’s not such a good friendship. Bad friendships are…
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