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Setting Limits With Parents

Posted on in Anger, Family Therapy, Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for Stress, Trauma and PTSD Therapy

In Therapy, Setting Limits With Parents Can Be Especially Difficult In my NYC therapy practice, setting limits with family members, especially parents, can be stressful and raise a variety of concerns. What makes setting limits with parents particularly difficult is that as children, we are supposed to learn limits and values from our parents andRead more

Sharing Our New Teen Therapy-Related Reading

Posted on in Anger, Art Therapy, Aspergers Therapy, Drug and Alcohol Counseling, Family Therapy, NYC Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for anxiety, Therapy for Depression, Therapy for Grief, Therapy for Teens

Teen Therapy Can Address A Whole Host Of Topics: Read More On Our Teen Therapy Pages Working with teens in our Downtown therapy practice, we often see how teens’ experiences and feelings can be brushed off as merely a part of moody and angst-ridden adolescence by parents and other adults. As not only therapists treatingRead more

There Is A Danger In Not Taking Teens Seriously–Especially When It Comes To Gun Control

Posted on in Anger, Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for Grief, Therapy for Teens, Therapy for Young Adults, Trauma and PTSD Therapy

We Need To Take Teens Seriously About Guns On a recent Wednesday morning, I happened to have a break when I heard chanting outside the window of my NYC therapy practice. The noises were not that unusual given that my Tribeca office is just a block away from City Hall, a frequent site of protests.Read more

For Couples, A Simple Rule: You Can’t Be Mean

Posted on in Anger, Couples Therapy and Relationships, Creativity, NYC Therapy, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for Stress

Fighting For Couples Doesn’t Have To Be Mean Most people are meaner than they realize when they’re upset. Couples therapy helps couples recognize this, but as a couples therapist, I like to go one step further, proposing that people have the capacity not to be mean. One can become aware of it and not giveRead more

Emotional Lessons: Teaching Children How to Be Well-Adjusted Adults

Posted on in Anger, Family Therapy, NYC Therapy, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for Teens, TriBeCa

Supporting Your Child’s Independence As a parent, your biggest job is to help your children grow into well-adjusted adults. From the moment they learn how to self soothe as infants, you are passing on lessons, big and small, that encourage healthy autonomy. In Slate’s “The Value of a Mess”, writer Jessica Lahey clearly lays out some of these lessons andRead more

Group Shaming in the Internet Age: The 21st Century Bystander Effect

Posted on in Anger, Group Therapy, NYC Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Trauma and PTSD Therapy

The Effect of Groups on Our Capacity to Help I distinctly remember the first time I learned about social psychology–I was sitting in a large auditorium when my dry Psychology 101 professor clicked his slideshow to an image of NYC in the 60’s. As I doodled in the margins of my notebook, my professor began to speak about Kitty Genovese, aRead more

Notes on anger management in NYC

Posted on in Anger, NYC Therapy

An anger management workshop in NYC with a difference (or so I was told) A few years ago I was invited by a new colleague to an anger management therapy workshop at her therapy practice in NYC. We had connected as therapist colleagues and had some conversations about the practice of therapy in NYC andRead more

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