Bipolar disorder: A troubling misunderstanding outside the therapy office Bipolar disorder is one of those therapy diagnoses that has made it from the world of psychotherapy into pop culture to such an extent that it is now a slang term. You might hear someone say, outside of a therapy office, “oh, he’s so bipolar” toRead more
Therapy for New Yorkers who hate therapy
en-ri / Foter / CC BY-NC My Specialty? I work with New Yorkers who hate therapy. It started out as a joke. Generally it’s another NYC therapist who asks, though often it’s regular New Yorkers making small talk. But it’s always with the therapists: What’s your specialty? The question bugs me. It sets me upRead more
PTSD, Trauma therapy and the problem with method
The U.S. Army / Foter / CC BY The United States military is one of the largest consumers of clinical psychology in the world and given that we are emerging from a period of sustained military conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the need for PTSD therapy and trauma therapy among combat veterans is high. TheRead more
Hit the roof
We started in my therapy office then changed scenes to the office rooftop. There was a lot of anxiety. She was disassociating from her body, meaning having trouble being in our space, present in her body and present with me. So we went for a walk. Many of my patients have a hard time beingRead more
Ritual as a Tool for the Young Adult Transition
Starting the first full-time job as a therapist–lessons for the young adult? In my therapy work with young adults, a big focus is the transition from student into full-time employee and essentially from adolescence to full-fledged adulthood. The transition can be a bit of a shock to the system as adulthood is a marathon, not a sprint. Cramming and pullingRead more
CBT-plus: Going further with/ than cognitive behavioral therapy
CBT-plus For a time, I received supervision at the American Cognitive Behavior Institute in NYC, one of the pioneering training centers for the wildly-popular therapy approach of cognitive behavioral therapy. I learned a lot about this method and utilized it in my practice. When I moved to a new NYC therapy practice, Tribeca Therapy, weRead more
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 digRead more
“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 itRead more
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 theirRead more
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 relateRead more
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