Couples
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Addresses Social Media Content on Toxic Relationships in Buzzfeed
As is often talked about of late, social media is designed to be highly consumable, engaging, and hard to put away. People, particularly those who struggle with obsessive or compulsive behavior, can get hooked on certain types of social media content in a way that is not helpful or healthy. An especially addictive topic that currently is grabbing the attention of users is toxic relationships,…
Jan 29, 2024
Trusting Your Gut in the Age of “Gut Health Transformation”
Before you can trust your gut, you have to consider what your gut is trying to tell you. We’ve fallen in love with the idea of being able to trust our guts, wanting to rely on ourselves to move toward the “right” thing intuitively. The mantra of “trust your gut”—to act upon a feeling with courage, trusting that the existence of the feeling itself is enough to act upon in a forceful confident…
Jan 16, 2024
Couples Need More Than Tools: A Couples Therapist’s Beef With the Gottman Method
The Gottman Method appeals to couples’ fantasies that every relationship can be repaired with the right tools. With its catchy phrases (“Improve your relationship in 30 days!”) and easy-to-digest concepts (“Restore your love!” “Learn to manage conflict!”), the Gottman Method appeals to both patients and therapists alike. Gottman promotes itself as a type of couples therapy “based on research,”…
Dec 19, 2023
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Featured in Metro UK, The New York Post, and Vox
We’re excited to share that our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist was recently featured in Metro UK, The New York Post, and Vox, addressing, respectively, responses to childfree couples, affairs between coworkers at holiday parties, and navigating speaking to loved ones about health concerns.Inspired by the online backlash against a couple’s viral TikTok on the benefits of being in a…
Dec 12, 2023
What to Do After a Breakup: The Case Against the Rebound
People love a rebound after a breakup. It’s understandable; it’s a rush to find a relationship that feels better, new, or different. However, in order to get that, you can’t go searching with the same set of eyes you were using in the last relationship. Speaking from their experiences providing individual therapy after breakups, our Director Heather Mayone and Director of Supervision and Training…
Nov 17, 2023
Is COVID Still Affecting Couples' Priorities and Influencing Divorce?: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in Buzzfeed
Whether pushing partners in casual relationships to suddenly move in together or creating tension as couples were forced to coexist in cramped apartments, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered many couples’ relationships. Even more than three years later, these impacts are still apparent, including influencing some couples’ decisions to divorce. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt…
Oct 11, 2023
When Couples Therapy Isn’t Working: Director of Supervision and Training Kelly Scott in The Cut
There are times in couples therapy when things just aren’t changing. Sessions cycle through the same arguments with the same dynamics. Even though a couples therapist may be making insights and connections, nothing is shifting. At this point, two questions have to be asked. First, why aren’t things changing? And secondly—a bigger question—does the couple have the conditions for a healthy…
Apr 10, 2023
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
Money is as loaded a topic as anything in therapy. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist recently appeared in both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal in order to assert that talking about money is too important to hide from, whether in therapy or in relationships. For The New York Times’ “Sex, Death, Affairs: Everything People Would Rather Talk About Than Money,” Matt…
Jan 27, 2023
How Couples Can Maintain Empathy: Director Heather Mayone in Brides Magazine
Part of the fun of being in a couple is difference. Empathy for a partner and their differences allows couples to create a bond that carries them past the early sparky part of their relationship and even through conflict. Our Director Heather Mayone recently discussed how couples can develop and maintain empathy in their relationships in Brides Magazine.In “5 Ways to Practice Empathy in Your…
Jan 09, 2023
How to Have a Good Relationship With a College Roommate: Director Heather Mayone in Self Magazine
Dealing with your first college roommate is a huge and intense transition after most likely living under a parent or guardian’s roof. Cohabiting in a small space with weird light-colored wood furniture and prohibitively tiny beds takes teamwork and cooperation with even the most well-intentioned of roommates. Our Director Heather Mayone recently appeared in Self Magazine to offer strategies for…
Sep 28, 2022
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Featured on Family Therapy in Newsweek and The Cut
We’re excited to share that our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist was recently highlighted for his expertise in family therapy in Newsweek and The Cut. In Newsweek’s “What Family Therapists Think About Roe v. Wade Being Overturned,” Matt addresses the devastating Dobbs decision from his perspective as a family therapist. While the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as well as the trigger laws…
Sep 21, 2022
How to Talk to a Friend About Their Divorce: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in The Cut
Our culture assumes a lot about divorce—that it’s always bad, that partners are always suffering, that women are always victims, and that primary partners should always be each other’s whole world. Not only do these assumptions affect people going through a divorce, but they also impact how their friends, family, and acquaintances talk to them about it. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt…
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