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Support Therapy and Instability
Right at the corner from our NYC therapy office, in Tribeca on Church and Reade Streets, this image caught my eye. Stuck on a stoplight amongst graffiti and stickers, "SUPPORT THERAPY AND INSTABILITY", shouted at me from where I stood on the sidewalk. My first reaction was to roll my eyes and interpret it as a dig at therapy. The phrase seemed to infer that therapy perpetuates dependency and and…
Jul 14, 2015
“The Pregnant Therapist”--New York Times
Pregnant Therapist. On April 28th no less than 15 people emailed me Jessica Zucker’s article, "The pregnant therapist," from the New York Times. I am pregnant and I am a therapist, so it wasn't surprising. I was thrilled to get this article and even more so that someone is opening up the conversation of what it means to be a pregnant therapist.What Zucker states is true: no one writes about your…
Jul 13, 2015
Thoughts on Hope in NYC Therapy
Creating Hope: It’s life or death. Therapy for depression. Here’s how it can go when we need help with depression: You haven’t landed that full-time job yet, you're living back with your parents after graduation, you're feeling isolated from those you went to school with and are scared to talk to them. They have their lives SO together. This has been going on for over 6 months. You broke up with…
Jul 09, 2015
Is It Possible to Stop Being an Artist? An Art Therapist's Reaction to "A Disposable Commodity, Indeed"
As an art therapist, I was deeply impacted by the N.Y. Times' Ken Johnson's piece, “A Disposable Commodity, Indeed” about an exhibit at MoMa PS1 ‘Bob and Roberta Smith: Art Amnesty'. The article and exhibit elicit so many questions regarding how we define who is an artist, what it means to be successful in that field, how we relate to physical pieces of art.In the field of art therapy, the…
Jul 07, 2015
Therapy and Social Change
Therapy and Social Change. There is nothing more important in therapy than our partnership.But of course you might say, “You’re a Therapist. Of course you have to believe in this partnership!” Let me tell you how I got there.I used to be a community organizer before I entering graduate school to study therapy. I organized because I saw systemic problems that needed to change in the world of work,…
Jul 02, 2015
Art therapy: The Art of Impermanence
Here at Tribeca Therapy, we have thought a great deal about how our space can best reflect us and our beliefs. As our resident art therapist, I've taken on a role as the de facto minder of the chalkboard.We hope our space makes folks feel welcome and inspired. When you first walk into our therapy office you'll notice a large chalkboard straight ahead. There's an open invitation for everyone to…
Jun 30, 2015
Songs that get us through….
Editors note: We are pleased to add a third voice to the contributors here, Rachael Benjamin. Rachael is a psychotherapist and trained musician who joined our practice in 2012 as the second therapist after our founder and director, Matt Lundquist. Rachael speaks best about and through music, and has decided to feature many of those thoughts and songs here.NYC Therapy: Songs that get us…
Jun 25, 2015
My liberal white privilege: How Dylann Roof helped me understand why I’m so furious with Rachel Dolezal
It took me a while to figure out just why Rachel Dolezal made me so angry. It wasn’t that I didn’t see the reasons why she should make me angry and certainly not that I didn’t think I ought to be angry. But, none of the specifics felt right as a reason she engendered the particular response in me that she did.To be honest, it took Dylann Roof.. I was a wreck last Thursday morning when I read the…
Jun 23, 2015
Internalizing External Messages: The Impact on "Problem Children"
Editors Note: We are so pleased to share, for the first time since the launch of our website, the writing of a therapist in our NYC practice who isn't the founder and director, Matt Lundquist. Heather Mayone Kiely is a psychotherapist and Art Therapist who joined the practice in 2012 when we expanded to a larger therapy office. She is a creative and thoughtful observer of human beings and writes…
Jun 19, 2015
"All by myself!" Independent versus dependent
I took my daughter to the park last week, which these days means we head right to the swings.Just as we started swinging ("Higher! Higher!") the swing next to us opened up and a mother moved to hoist her (I'm guessing) three-year old son up to the seat. These swings, I should mention, are oddly high (as I've found to be the case in NYC parks) and between the height and the heft of her kiddo this…
Jun 12, 2015
"I'll betcha": Reclaiming "Crazy" in NYC Therapy
Is it crazy for a therapist to use the word crazy?. I need to begin with a qualifier: As an established therapist in NYC, some of you may be a bit thrown off by my casual use of the word crazy. I get it. It may not fit your expectation of a therapist. If you've stumbled upon here as someone seeking therapy in NYC or as a therapist meandering on the internet, you may hear this not as the call to…
Apr 09, 2015
Therapy for depression or something else?
Therapy for depression? More complicated than you may think. This article "It's Not Always Depression" from the New York Times has me thinking about what any good therapist knows about therapy for depression: depression is but one mode of understanding an emotional experience that needs to be looked at through many modes of understanding. Ms. Mendel suggests from experience in her work providing…
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