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Visual Storytelling: An Art Therapist Talks About Grief
The many faces of grief brought to therapy. Grief is a central part of my NYC art therapy practice. The word, "grief" typically elicits images of death or a breakup, but it is much broader and far-reaching than that. Grief touches us all in different ways and many people who enter our doors at Tribeca Therapy are grieving and don't even realize it. Art therapy is one of the languages I use to…
Aug 05, 2016
A NYC Therapist on Talking to Teens (hint: skip the eye roll)
Advice for parents and adults on communication with teens from a NYC therapist. Parents, teachers and other adults often wonder how to talk to teens. As a therapist who’s worked with teens in New York City for over ten years, it’s impossible for me to resist starting my tips for communicating with teens with something of a rant–it’s an incredibly important issue to me. In my NYC therapy…
Aug 02, 2016
"Tell Me I’m Fat": Conversations about weight and honesty in therapy
Conversations about weight in a NYC therapy office?. Listening to the recent episode “Tell Me I’m Fat” of the podcast This American Life, I began thinking about weight, appearance, and honesty in therapy. The episode, which aired on June 17, invited a series of guests including writers Lindy West and Roxane Gay to talk about their experiences being fat, maneuvering through the world as a fat…
Jul 26, 2016What Should Parents Do After Leaving The NICU: A Postpartum Toolkit
A helpful toolkit for NICU parents. In my last post, I encouraged parents dealing with postpartum NICU trauma to share their stories with each other, friends, family or a therapist. Thinking further about the NICU experience and talking with parents, I realized when you have a child or children in the NICU you are simply surviving. NICU parents are in limbo between the NICU, home and even, your…
Jul 19, 2016
Therapy for depression: A collective therapist conversation on the limits of words
We’ve been continuing our series of conversations, this one exploring the construction of depression: the ways those seeking therapy talk about their experiences, the many meanings of the word and the ways that depression is so often insufficient as a term to capture these experiences.Matt: It's probably the case that therapy for depression is the single most common reason a prospective therapy…
Jul 05, 2016
No One Talks About The NICU Postpartum Trauma
Sharing Your Stories About The Trauma of NICU Postpartum. No one imagines the postpartum trauma of visiting your baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). No one imagines coming home without a baby. You imagine recovering in the hospital room with your newborn. You imagine bringing them home and fostering them into this new world, not waiting for a cab with baby stuff while preparing to…
Jun 28, 2016A hierarchy of pain? NYC Therapists Discuss
This is the second in a series of conversations completed by our NYC therapists. The conversation, discussing the tendency in psychotherapy towards establishing a hierarchy of pain and suffering, was completed over a series of days.Matt: While I'm not sure the five of us have ever talked about this explicitly, I'm certain you all encounter something as therapists that I do frequently in my…
May 24, 2016Group Practice: A nonstandard approach in NYC therapy
Group Practice: A nonstandard approach in NYC therapy. This is the first in what will be a series of conversations completed by our NYC therapists. The conversation, discussing our therapists' views on the significance of working in a group practice, was completed over a series of days.Matt: We practice therapy as part of a group practice. We collaborate in our clinical work, share a strong point…
May 10, 2016
How to survive a crisis: Lessons from PTSD and Trauma Therapy
Trauma therapists--therapists in NYC and elsewhere who treat PTSD--become experts in crisis. How we confront crises that don't constitute trauma, per se--those that wouldn't likely lead to a life experience that we might want to classify as PTSD--can be informed by the knowledge trauma therapists have gained from this work. For those therapists who were practicing therapy in NYC on and after…
Apr 26, 2016
Art as Therapy: The Shame to Pride Project
Art and art therapy. Artist Stephanie Calvert is using her own art as therapy in creating work using materials from her childhood home and I find it inspiring in my work as an art therapist. The Huffington Post's Katherine Brooks features Ms. Calvert in her piece, "One Daughter is Turning Her Hoarding Parents' Belongings into Beautiful Art". Stephanie's home from ages 11 to 18 years was not a…
Nov 17, 2015
Group Shaming in the Internet Age: The 21st Century Bystander Effect
The Effect of Groups on Our Capacity to Help. I distinctly remember the first time I learned about social psychology--I was sitting in a large auditorium when my dry Psychology 101 professor clicked his slideshow to an image of NYC in the 60's. As I doodled in the margins of my notebook, my professor began to speak about Kitty Genovese, a woman who was brutally attacked and killed near her home…
Sep 15, 2015The first rule of fight club: On trauma therapy and denial
Two kinds of trauma: trauma therapy and the problem of denial. We might say there are two sorts of trauma that present themselves in trauma therapy: trauma that is acknowledged, overtly expressed, laid bare; and trauma that is unacknowledged or ignored. In either instance, the pain of the trauma--the traumatic effect--is damaging. It leaves a sort of scar on the nervous system of the person…
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