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Is COVID Still Affecting Couples' Priorities and Influencing Divorce?: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in Buzzfeed
Whether pushing partners in casual relationships to suddenly move in together or creating tension as couples were forced to coexist in cramped apartments, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered many couples’ relationships. Even more than three years later, these impacts are still apparent, including influencing some couples’ decisions to divorce. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt…
Oct 11, 2023
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Addresses Parents’ Complicated Feelings About Their Young Adults’ Return to School on All Of It with Alison Stewart
Excitement, loss, anxiety, relief—parents can wrestle with a whole host of complicated emotions when their young adult child leaves home for college. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist returned to WNYC’s All Of It with Alison Stewart to discuss how parents can make room for all of their sometimes conflicting feelings as their kids gain independence and return to school.In the…
Sep 07, 2023
How Parents and Adult Children Can Navigate Living Together: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in Healthline
Since the pandemic, an increasing amount of parents and adult children have decided to live together. While there is often much discussion about these relationships grating on both the adult children and their parents, these arrangements can often be beneficial. However, that doesn’t mean that they don’t need to be navigated with clarity and care. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist…
Jul 05, 2023
When Couples Therapy Isn’t Working: Director of Supervision and Training Kelly Scott in The Cut
There are times in couples therapy when things just aren’t changing. Sessions cycle through the same arguments with the same dynamics. Even though a couples therapist may be making insights and connections, nothing is shifting. At this point, two questions have to be asked. First, why aren’t things changing? And secondly—a bigger question—does the couple have the conditions for a healthy…
Apr 10, 2023
When We Talk about Seasonal Affective Disorder, We Often Leave Out an Important Piece: Our History
There are real reasons to feel sad in the winter: Not all of them have to do with the weather. A recent article in The Atlantic “The Surprising Truth About Seasonal Depression” explores the reality of seasonal affective disorder (otherwise known as SAD) and whether winter weather and waning light actually impact people’s propensity for depression. What the article misses, however, is the real…
Mar 29, 2023
There’s No Such Thing as Generalized Anxiety: Only an Overwhelming Accumulation of Unresolved Anxieties
Anxiety is a signal, not a biological disorder. We have an idea of anxiety as this amorphous thing, which culminates in the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder. This idea likely grows out of a wish that anxiety was a biological disorder, a malfunction of the nervous system that is correctible just like a malfunction of the endocrine system. But, it’s not. There’s…
Mar 15, 2023
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Featured on NPR
As family therapists, including family therapy for aging parents, we’ve witnessed the emotional impact on families when an older parent with dementia or other cognitive difficulties struggles to maintain their own finances. Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist appeared on NPR to explain what money issues can mean emotionally for an older parent and the family as a whole.The segment “An…
Jan 31, 2023
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
Money is as loaded a topic as anything in therapy. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist recently appeared in both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal in order to assert that talking about money is too important to hide from, whether in therapy or in relationships. For The New York Times’ “Sex, Death, Affairs: Everything People Would Rather Talk About Than Money,” Matt…
Jan 27, 2023
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Featured in The Wall Street Journal and WESA
Whether about finances or health, having big conversations with parents as an adult child can be challenging. The dynamics between a parent and child remain, no matter what age, and this can be a barrier to discussions, particularly when parents need more help as they get older. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist recently appeared in The Wall Street Journal and WESA to address how…
Jan 05, 2023
How to Have a Good Relationship With a College Roommate: Director Heather Mayone in Self Magazine
Dealing with your first college roommate is a huge and intense transition after most likely living under a parent or guardian’s roof. Cohabiting in a small space with weird light-colored wood furniture and prohibitively tiny beds takes teamwork and cooperation with even the most well-intentioned of roommates. Our Director Heather Mayone recently appeared in Self Magazine to offer strategies for…
Sep 28, 2022
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Featured on Family Therapy in Newsweek and The Cut
We’re excited to share that our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist was recently highlighted for his expertise in family therapy in Newsweek and The Cut. In Newsweek’s “What Family Therapists Think About Roe v. Wade Being Overturned,” Matt addresses the devastating Dobbs decision from his perspective as a family therapist. While the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as well as the trigger laws…
Sep 21, 2022
How to Talk to a Friend About Their Divorce: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in The Cut
Our culture assumes a lot about divorce—that it’s always bad, that partners are always suffering, that women are always victims, and that primary partners should always be each other’s whole world. Not only do these assumptions affect people going through a divorce, but they also impact how their friends, family, and acquaintances talk to them about it. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt…
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