Couples
Tribeca Therapy Quoted in The Cut and Business Insider on Relationships in Quarantine
Practicing online therapy, including remote family therapy and couples therapy, since March, our practice has witnessed how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected relationships between both family members and romantic partners. Drawing on these experiences, Tribeca Therapy was quoted in two publications on whether quarantining together as a couple creates closeness or conflict and navigating how to…
May 26, 2020
Kelly Scott and Matt Lundquist Quoted In Three Publications Including The Wall Street Journal On Coping With Quarantine
As our practice continues doing online therapy in response to COVID-19, we’ve been pleased to be quoted in several publications responding to the pandemic. Recently, both Senior Therapist Kelly Scott and Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist were featured in three publications speaking to the different ways folks have been dealing with quarantine, whether getting a pet, bickering with…
May 12, 2020
How To Get The Most Out Of Your Online Therapy
When our practice went entirely remote in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we admittedly weren’t entirely sure how offering solely teletherapy and online therapy sessions would go, even though we held sessions via the phone and video chat previously. Thankfully, we were pleasantly surprised that the transition has been smooth for both our patients and therapists. We have, however, had to…
May 08, 2020
Questions For A Tribeca Remote Therapist During Quarantine
I’m 31 weeks pregnant. I’m healthy, and my OB assures me the labor and delivery units are safe. But I’m anxious all the time about what giving birth during this time might mean, about my health and my baby’s, about possibly having to be alone while I give birth. How do I get through this time?My relationship was in trouble and had a lot of conflict prior to COVID. Now, my partner and I are having…
May 07, 2020
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 3: How Can Couples Work With Hypervigilance?
In the previous parts of this three-part series, I explained how hypervigilance develops and the ways it can be useful, as well as how it can let both partners in a relationship down in substantive ways. For the third and final part of this series, I’ll explore how both individuals and partners can work with hypervigilance in a way that’s additive, rather than threatening, to their…
May 06, 2020
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 2: How Can It Let Couples Down?
In part one of this three-part series, I explored how hypervigilance develops in the first place and how it’s not only useful, but at times a vital protective tool for individuals, couples, and families. In part two, I’m emphasizing four ways that hypervigilance, despite its usefulness, tends to let individuals and their partners down in some substantive ways:Moralistic Thinking. Like most traits…
May 05, 2020
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 1: What Is Hypervigilance And Why Is It Useful?
You Might Have Been Right About COVID-19, But Your Partner Might Find Themselves In The Wrong. Some of my patients in my online therapy sessions have been aware of the massive ramifications of the coronavirus long before even our government. They anticipated the layoffs, the lack of PPE, the “staying inside” directives, and the shortage of access to food. Initially, many of these folks were sent…
May 04, 2020
Tribeca Therapy On Avoiding Conflicts During Self-isolation In The New York Post
In our NYC online therapy sessions, we’ve, understandably, received a lot of questions about dealing with self-isolating at home. Between the cramped quarters and being home more than ever before, conflicts between people in the home can naturally come up, whether with a couple, parents and school-aged kids, college students who moved back home or roommates. Speaking specifically to the…
Apr 16, 2020
Being Physically Together In An Apartment Is Not The Same As Spending Time Together As A Couple
Just Because A Couple Is Together All Day Every Day In Quarantine Doesn’t Mean The Relationship Is Getting What It Needs. One of the particular challenges about relationships in the time of the coronavirus that I’ve been talking about with patients in my teletherapy and online couples therapy sessions is how to manage the competing needs we all have for alone time and connectedness with…
Apr 14, 2020
Couples, Stay Vigilant To Not Regress During The Stress Of Quarantine
Being Stuck In Self-Quarantine Creates A Stage For A Relationship’s Cracks To Appear. Despite some anticipated logistical challenges (aka smooshing two people in front of a laptop or an iPhone), my couples therapy practice has remained busy through the transition to remote couples therapy sessions during the beginning of quarantine due to COVID-19. While my couples’ challenges span a variety of…
Apr 07, 2020
Tribeca Therapy On New Couples In Self-isolation In The BBC
In our remote couples therapy sessions, we’ve spoken to couples via the phone and video chat at various stages of their relationship, from long-time married couples to new couples, that are now in self-isolation together. Recently, the BBC featured Tribeca Therapy in an article focusing on the latter–couples that are now living together early on in their relationship because of COVID-19.Speaking…
Apr 07, 2020
We Need To Ask Better Questions Of Each Other: 12 Questions To Ask Teens
Asking Teens Better Questions Can Help Them Establish (And Reestablish) Who They Are Becoming . For the final incarnation of my series on how to ask better questions in our relationships, I’m focusing on teens. A teen needs to be asked deeper and better questions so that parents and other important adults in their life can get to know the ever-moving, ever-shifting person a teen is and is…
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