Art
Subway Therapy Helps New Yorkers Cope After Charlottesville
[caption id="attachment_4973" align="alignleft" width="257"] Matthew "Levee" Chavez, Subway Therapy. Courtesy of Matthew "Levee" Chavez, via Instagram.[/caption]In my NYC therapy office, so many of my patients continue to express dismay, horror, and fear over the racism and bigotry that has boiled over in our country. Most recently, the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia…
Oct 05, 2017
Reintegrating through Art: Art Therapy For Dissociation And Disconnection
Dissociation And Art Therapy. Defenses are a truly amazing function of the human psyche. When a person is under a great deal of psychic pain or they are in danger, the unconscious has the capacity to step in and mentally contain the threat. Dissociation is one of many defenses that humans have the capacity to experience, which is a protective cutting off in order to create a safe distance from…
Apr 27, 2017
How to Speak Kid: Art as a Tool of Translation
As an art therapist in NYC, I get to work with all kinds of kids, ranging from shy to verbose. Regardless of a child’s temperament and language skill, there is always a limit on what he or she can communicate in words. For parents, this can be tough. On one hand, they know their kid better than anyone else in this world. Yet, on the other hand, even parents can often experience befuddlement,…
Sep 27, 2016
Transitional Objects In Therapy: Not Just for Kids
Thinking about how I use art objects in my NYC therapy practice, I recall that when I was growing up, I was very sentimental when it came to objects. I would hold onto seemingly useless items and, like a magpie, store them in old, colorfully painted cigar boxes. I would save a ticket stub from a concert, a matchbook from a restaurant, or a soda can tab from a friend. Years later, when it would be…
Sep 15, 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
Art as Therapy: The Shame to Pride Project
Art and art therapy. Artist Stephanie Calvert is using her own art as therapy in creating work using materials from her childhood home and I find it inspiring in my work as an art therapist. The Huffington Post's Katherine Brooks features Ms. Calvert in her piece, "One Daughter is Turning Her Hoarding Parents' Belongings into Beautiful Art". Stephanie's home from ages 11 to 18 years was not a…
Nov 17, 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…
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