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Bone-Chilling Loneliness In Teens
Why Bone Chilling Loneliness?. Bone-chilling loneliness is a phrase I’ve been thinking about recently in my NYC therapy practice as a way to categorize depression. I prefer the phrase because it gets to the heart of the lows that someone with depression feels. The term and diagnosis depression are so prevalent in both psychotherapy and popular culture that we’re almost not fazed anymore.In many…
Nov 29, 2016
The Less Traveled Path: Taking a Break from College
In my NYC therapy practice, I work with many teens and families of teens who have decided to take a break from college. This can be a difficult decision and it is hard to know when it is time to muscle through the semester and when might be the time to press the pause button. There are some quick, short-term things that can help a student feel more stable, but sometimes a break is what is needed…
Nov 22, 2016
Protecting Your Relationships
In my NYC therapy practice, I see how a collective sense of imminence leaves us stressed, anxious and disengaged from our relationships. Our lives are inundated with pressures from the world. Whether we are focusing on advancing our careers or have a case of fomo (fear of missing out), never before have we been so busy en masse. Deadlines and other pressures continue to escalate. Long work hours…
Nov 17, 2016
DIY Development: Helping Teens Work Through Normal Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal part of teen development that I see in my NYC therapy practice. Between college admission, SAT/ACT prep, stressors of social dynamics in and outside of high school, the first semesters of college and just being a teen, is it any wonder teens are anxious? This is all normal anxiety and this means you can take it on in a mostly self-constructed way. Do-It-Yourself (DIY)…
Nov 15, 2016
Art As A Tool For Empowerment After This Election
As an art therapist in NYC, I know firsthand that art can have a profoundly positive impact on feelings of disempowerment and oppression. Art-making gives us a way to be big, powerful, and assert control over the materials. It also gives the artist an opportunity to make images that express and work through exactly what is making them feel so small.Art and the 2016 Election. This 2016 election…
Nov 10, 2016
A Collective NYC Therapist Conversation On The 2016 Presidential Election
The 2016 presidential election has impacted our therapy practice in a number of ways. This conversation on the election took place over roughly a month–much longer than our typical collective conversations. This is indicative of our own complicated feelings about what the election has brought forth and how hard it has been to verbalize. We publish this today on Election Day not only as a way to…
Nov 08, 2016
Shameless Self-Promotion: Marketing Matters In Therapy
Recently, I have been thinking about the importance of putting good stuff out there–boldly and well-presented. A huge part of my mission as a NYC therapist is to market myself the best I possibly can.Marketing is so often conceived as a dirty word. The reality, though, is that when you’re searching for a therapist, unless you’ve got a great referral, the material you’re combing through is…
Nov 03, 2016
The Shared Experience of Depression in Relationships
I have observed both in and outside of my NYC therapy practice a growing dialogue for mental health issues like depression. What often seems absent, however, is the ripple effect of depression and how it can affect couples, family units, and those in close proximity to it. When one person in a unit is struggling with pain (in all of the various ways that can manifest), it reverberates through the…
Nov 01, 2016
Are You An Alien Or An Astronaut?
“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey HouseWe are all travelers, in one sense or another. In some proportion, we spend time with the familiar and the unfamiliar, and we also have experiences with feelings of belonging and not belonging.Reconciling that experience of "otherness" is no small feat. It is requisite for anyone who chooses to…
Oct 27, 2016
Finding A Therapist In NYC
How To Find A NYC Therapist. Finding a therapist in NYC is a lot like dating. You scour the internet for someone whose profile seems right and when you think you may have found a match, you schedule some phone time. If that goes well, you make a date to meet in person. As this process goes along, you will get signs, signals and clues not just about who they are and what they are about, but also…
Oct 25, 2016
Let's talk about sex! (In therapy!)
I practice pro-sex therapy. I don’t really feel I have the option not to in my NYC therapy office. In the case of sex, everyone has it, had had it or has a significant relationship with it. Sex is such a vital part of who we are as human beings. To ignore it would be akin to ignoring feelings. People need to talk about sex. This isn’t just because people can have all sorts of challenges related…
Oct 20, 2016
How To Leave Your Therapist
In my NYC therapy practice, I hear horror stories about my patient’s past therapists where they have wasted time and energy and even encountered some harm. It is disturbing enough to hear about the transgressions of those in my profession, but it is even more upsetting to hear that many of my patients stuck around and put up with this bad therapy.Just because someone is a therapist, does not mean…
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