College is a highly emotional transition, yet most college health centers can only offer triage In our therapy with college students, we often see young adults who are struggling turn to their schools’ health centers for mental health care. As writer Sofia Barnett argues in a recent Teen Vogue editorial, college students frequently find theseRead more
Sharing Our New Teen Therapy-Related Reading
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
With Asperger’s, Diagnosis Matters (Unless It Doesn’t)
Do I Have Asperger’s, Doc? Maybe once a week in my NYC therapy practice someone asks to meet with me to diagnose whether or not they have Asperger’s. Asperger’s is a mild form of autism characterized by difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication. It’s almost never the case that the diagnosis is sought toRead more
When It Comes To Asperger’s, Does Diagnosis Matter?
With Therapy for Asperger‘s, a Conundrum A common conversation that I have in my NYC therapy practice concerns Asperger’s. Many people wonder if they have Asperger’s or if their parent or spouse does. There are people whose life matches the diagnosis of Asperger’s, more or less. Some find that discovery a relief and some findRead more
How Working With Aspergers Patients Makes Me a Better Therapist
Aspergers Therapy: Making me a better therapist and better at relationships Here at Tribeca Therapy, we offer Aspergers therapy and see a good number of folks with a formal diagnosis or Aspergers or who find some meaning in Aspergers in helping them make sense of how they make sense of the world. I make anRead more
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 aRead more