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Filling In The Blanks: Therapy for Adults Who Grew Up Too Fast
So many people that walk through the door of my NYC therapy practice are high achieving, bright, and successful. However, many find themselves struggling in certain areas of their lives because they had to grow up too fast. We often get to a place in our work where they ask me a version of: "If I can be so successful in (one area of life), why do I struggle so much in (insert other life area…
Aug 30, 2016
"We Got This": A Conversation On Pain And Intimacy In An NYC Therapy Practice
I met Rachael six years ago, in the early stages of working to expand Tribeca Therapy into a group practice. She has a quality that is difficult to describe, but known well to everyone on our staff and certainly to her patients. I asked her some questions about this in an attempt to better understand her ability to connect with patients who are in pain.Matt: You have a remarkable ability to…
Aug 25, 2016
Growing From The Relationship: An Art Therapist Talks About Social Anxiety
In my NYC art therapy practice, I work with a lot of folks who are looking for therapy for social anxiety. Many who seek this sort of help find that in social interactions they are so uncomfortable and in their head that it renders them completely stumped and stuck around others. Initially in therapy, it is so often a relief just to have the space to be able to voice some of these insecurities…
Aug 23, 2016
Beyond The DSM And Diagnostic Language In Therapy
I recently began thinking about the DSM-5 and the language we use in my NYC therapy practice after listening to a Philosophy Bites podcast with Dr. Steven E. Hyman. In the podcast, Hyman discusses the limitations he sees in the “rigid and arbitrary” boundaries set up in the DSM between what is considered “healthy” or normal and what is a mental illness.In oncology, for example, the line between…
Aug 18, 2016A Collective NYC Therapist Conversation On Grief
I’ve been thinking a lot the last several months about the process of grief and how central it is to all therapy. I've come to understand grief less as something that visits us in rare moments of loss or trauma but as an ever-present part of daily life. Not unlike the filtering of everyday toxins for which we rely on our liver to metabolize, the world is filled with emotional matter that our…
Aug 16, 2016
Parents: Put Down The Parenting Books And Connect With Your Kids
In Parenting Therapy, I Often Tell Parents: Don’t Get So Consumed With Parenting Books That You Miss Out On The Most Important Thing–Connecting With Your Kid. As an NYC therapist who works with parents, I frequently find parents, particularly moms, need me to tell them to throw out the parenting books and instead, connect with their kids. Understandably, when a family is struggling with a…
Aug 16, 2016
Setting Teens Up To Thrive During Their College Experience
In my NYC therapy practice, I come across a lot of teens, young adults, and their families who feel really stuck around college. From choosing a college to how to manage coursework once they get there, this time in a teenager's life is full of questions and potential lessons. But this is also a time, albeit challenging, that is full of opportunities for teens to learn some imperative lessons–both…
Aug 12, 2016
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
The Evolution of Art Therapy in an NYC Therapy Practice
We continue our series of conversations with a look at art therapy in our NYC therapy practice. Rather than a collective conversation like several of our previous posts, this conversation focuses on Heather Mayone Kiely who has expanded the practice with her experience and passion as both an art therapist and artist.Matt: We met close to five years ago when I was looking to expand our NYC therapy…
Jul 28, 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, 2016
Therapy with Teens: A Collective NYC Therapist Conversation on Adolescence
Following our last collective post on therapy for depression, we are continuing our ongoing series of conversations with a focus on therapy for teens. How do we–as a practice and as individual therapists–approach working with teens and what would we like parents to know? What is different about the experiences of NYC teens? And how can therapy create a safe space for teens? Matt: I think the five…
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