Couples
Thriving After Trauma: It's Relational, Not Inspirational
I think there are too many inspirational stories about trauma. You turn on the Today Show or Oprah and you see a person who “survived” trauma. You have soft music, a tell-tale story, and you feel inspired. However, the bigger picture is that they worked hard to thrive after their trauma. They worked on their relationship with themselves, the trauma, and the person/people who got close to them in…
Dec 15, 2016
Protecting Your Relationships
In my NYC therapy practice, I see how a collective sense of imminence leaves us stressed, anxious and disengaged from our relationships. Our lives are inundated with pressures from the world. Whether we are focusing on advancing our careers or have a case of fomo (fear of missing out), never before have we been so busy en masse. Deadlines and other pressures continue to escalate. Long work hours…
Nov 17, 2016
The Shared Experience of Depression in Relationships
I have observed both in and outside of my NYC therapy practice a growing dialogue for mental health issues like depression. What often seems absent, however, is the ripple effect of depression and how it can affect couples, family units, and those in close proximity to it. When one person in a unit is struggling with pain (in all of the various ways that can manifest), it reverberates through the…
Nov 01, 2016
Finding A Therapist In NYC
How To Find A NYC Therapist. Finding a therapist in NYC is a lot like dating. You scour the internet for someone whose profile seems right and when you think you may have found a match, you schedule some phone time. If that goes well, you make a date to meet in person. As this process goes along, you will get signs, signals and clues not just about who they are and what they are about, but also…
Oct 25, 2016
Let's talk about sex! (In therapy!)
I practice pro-sex therapy. I don’t really feel I have the option not to in my NYC therapy office. In the case of sex, everyone has it, had had it or has a significant relationship with it. Sex is such a vital part of who we are as human beings. To ignore it would be akin to ignoring feelings. People need to talk about sex. This isn’t just because people can have all sorts of challenges related…
Oct 20, 2016
Talking Social Media, Relationships and Therapy On Love Bites
Last week, I was pleased to be invited by Jacqueline Raposo to join her and her co-host Ben Rosenblatt on their NYC-based weekly radio show Love Bites on the Heritage Radio Network to talk about social media and its impact on dating and relationships that I see in my therapy practice (listen here). We spoke about a range of topics including authenticity, overuse of social media and harassment of…
Oct 11, 2016
Exploring Your Tribe: Family Therapy and Family History
Family history in family therapy and beyond. Through my work as a psychotherapist and family therapist, I’ve learned that understanding family histories and identifying family patterns can help us understand why we find ourselves in repeated situations. This is vital in both family therapy--where a family unit is in the therapy office, as well as in individual therapy. Ever wonder why you seem to…
Sep 06, 2016
Family therapy: For New Yorkers an unconsidered psychotherapy option
New York family therapists love family therapy. Therapists who offer family counseling love family counseling. And often, those who aren't family therapists find the idea of family counseling terrifying. Ironically this is often for the same reasons. Families are tough. If you've spent time in one, it's like that you get that very well.New York's family identity: A different conception of family…
Mar 23, 2015
I didn't say we _wouldn't_ be talking about your mother in therapy
We have something of a reputation here at TriBeCa Therapy for being therapists who aren't overly invested in the psychoanalytic method of excavating the past. It's accurate, and it's a reputation that's been well earned on our part.We take exception to two corresponding assumptions underlying the dominance so often placed on the past that many therapists make:That understanding the…
Mar 18, 2014
Gray is the color of human
It's so often the stuff of therapy: People piss us off. They hurt our feelings. Lie. Deceive. Over promise and under deliver. Ex-boyfriends cheat. Former bosses withhold money we're owed. People do bad things. In NYC you hardly have to step outside for someone to rub you the wrong way. It sucks, and when that happens we have a right to expect compassion and respect from our friends.We also need…
Sep 27, 2013Stop listening
Wherever I wander in New York City, people make a lot of assumptions about me as a therapist. People figure I'm psychoanalyzing them (I'm not--I don't even do that in the therapy room). They wonder how I can "handle listening to people's problems all day" and they nearly universally figure I must be a good listener.Maybe I am a good listener. Okay, I am; any therapist should be. But the…
Nov 08, 2012Inconvenience
"I'm sorry to bother you with all this drama.""I'm your therapist. Bothering me with drama is pretty much the job description."Other professions whose job descriptions include this responsibility: friend, mom, dad, brother, sister.Convenience is great, I suppose. But the best things, well, aren't. A slow cooked sauce, or an out-of-the-way inn in Upstate New York. Therapy's pretty inconvenient,…
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