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What the Culture Is Missing in Maternity Care and Why We're Doing It Differently: A Conversation Between Tribeca Maternity Director Rachael Benjamin and Therapist Emily Stuart
Last year, we launched the new branch of our practice Tribeca Maternity with Senior Therapist Rachael Benjamin as Director. Rachael is a specialist and a leader in the field of maternity and women’s health and through her work, she has witnessed the help women, their partners, and their families typically receive. Her observations on the need for specialized therapeutic attention during maternity…
Feb 04, 2021
All the Places Patients Are Seeing Their Therapist From During COVID-19
When our practice went entirely virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic nearly a year ago, our patients also had to adjust to online therapy while dealing with fear and uncertainty, economic challenges, and childcare struggles. At first, they simply needed help. People were afraid.As the first few weeks of quarantine went on, there was, for many patients (and some on the team), some hesitation about…
Jan 26, 2021
All the Places We've Done Therapy From During COVID-19
As we approach the year anniversary of our practice going entirely remote in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, it seemed like an appropriate time to reflect. This has been a year of different phases. Initially, we were in triage mode, hyper-focused on getting ourselves set up to work remotely and help our patients do the same, alongside all of the related challenges during a…
Jan 22, 2021
How Can Big Life Transitions Affect Adult Sibling Relationships?: A Conversation With Two NYC Family Therapists
Moving, a new job, marriage, having a new baby. These significant life transitions not only impact the individuals moving, landing that new job, getting married, or that are expecting, but also their siblings in ways that often go overlooked. Reflecting on their experiences practicing family therapy with adult siblings, Senior Therapists Rachael Benjamin and Kelly Scott discussed how big…
Jan 15, 2021
Why We Opened a Second Office in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Tribeca Therapy’s New Park Slope, Brooklyn Office Is The Next Step In Our Larger Plan . We recently announced the opening of our second office in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Park Slope has been my residence since I moved there after years in Tribeca where my connection to Lower Manhattan led me to open Tribeca Therapy in 2009. In early 2020, I began offering therapy sessions for the first time from an…
Jan 11, 2021
We Need to Talk About Pregnancy in the Pandemic’s Second Wave
Being Pregnant (Or Having A Partner Who Is Pregnant) During The Pandemic’s Second Wave Is Emotionally Overwhelming In A Different Way Than In The Spring. Providing therapy since the beginning of the pandemic, I’ve seen firsthand the toll it’s taken on pregnant women, their partners, and their families, particularly recently during this second wave. In the spring, there were so many unknowns about…
Dec 29, 2020
Am I Married to a Sociopath Like in HBO's The Undoing?: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in The Cut
In HBO’s drama series The Undoing, Grace Fraser, played by Nicole Kidman, is a highly trained psychotherapist who never recognized that her husband of seventeen years, Jonathan (Hugh Grant), was a sociopath. This has led many to wonder: if a Harvard-educated therapist could be in denial (even a fictional one), could I be married to a sociopath? Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist…
Dec 18, 2020
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist on WNYC's All Of It with Alison Stewart on Texting Exes During Quarantine
During periods of isolation and uncertainty such as the COVID-19 pandemic, we tend to seek out comfort in the familiar. For many, this has resulted in either texting–or being on the receiving end of texts from–exes. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist appeared on WNYC’s All Of It with Alison Stewart to discuss why people may be reaching out to former partners during the pandemic, as…
Dec 17, 2020
Pregnancy After Miscarriage or Pregnancy Loss: Tribeca Maternity Director Rachael Benjamin on Off the Mat
Being Pregnant After A Miscarriage Or Later-term Pregnancy Loss Can Be Complicated Emotionally. While miscarriages and pregnancy losses rarely get addressed as much as they should, the complex emotions around being pregnant after these early, late-term, or stillbirth losses are also frequently overlooked. In order to make it less intimidating to talk about these experiences, I participated in the…
Dec 10, 2020
What is it Like to Provide Family Therapy With Adult Siblings?: Two NYC Therapists Discuss
Adult siblings usually contact us for family therapy because there’s been a painful rupture, a series of hurtful events, or consistent distance that is no longer tolerable by one or more siblings. Therapy with siblings can be challenging, but also provides the chance to honor, question, disrupt, and reconstruct these familial relationships. In order to shed light on this equally vulnerable and…
Nov 24, 2020
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Featured in Two Guides for Thanksgiving and the Holidays During COVID-19
Whether it’s travel, the guests, or the menu, Thanksgiving and the holidays are just going to look and feel different this year. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist appeared in two recent guides for the holidays during COVID-19, providing strategies to lessen the stress and anxiety around this unique and uncertain year.Most recently, Matt offers several ways to make this Thanksgiving…
Nov 19, 2020
Navigating Decisions About Thanksgiving and 2020 Holiday Gatherings During COVID-19: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in Slate
During The COVID-19 Pandemic, Holiday Gatherings Have Become (Even More) Emotionally Complicated . With COVID-19 surging in most of the United States as the weather is getting colder, questions around travel and planning for Thanksgiving and the end-of-year holidays have become increasingly emotionally fraught. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist spoke to Slate on grief about missing…
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