John-Morgan / Foter / CC BY Art therapy and art making: A process of discovery Early in my art therapy career, I asked a mentor how long it would take to be a “good” therapist. She laughed and rolled her eyes a little bit, as my question in itself negated what “good” therapy truly is.Read more
CBT-plus: Going further with/ than cognitive behavioral therapy
CBT-plus For a time, I received supervision at the American Cognitive Behavior Institute in NYC, one of the pioneering training centers for the wildly-popular therapy approach of cognitive behavioral therapy. I learned a lot about this method and utilized it in my practice. When I moved to a new NYC therapy practice, Tribeca Therapy, weRead more
Thoughts on Hope in NYC Therapy
Creating Hope: It’s life or death. Therapy for depression Here’s how it can go when we need help with depression: You haven’t landed that full-time job yet, you’re living back with your parents after graduation, you’re feeling isolated from those you went to school with and are scared to talk to them. They have theirRead 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
“What if ‘the real you’ is a jackass?” A case for fake.
I acted out on Facebook, and it wasn’t the first time. But really, I couldn’t help myself. It happens. Someone innocently posted this little bit of pith: “The real you is better than a fake someone else.” You’ve heard something along those lines. (Probably in your Facebook feed). And it seems sensible. Except, consider the following:Read more
The opposite of moralism isn’t amoralism, it’s creativity
I’m not a fan or moralism. Morality, yes. What’s the difference? Morality, which seems inarguably worthwhile, is about being committed to engaging in a struggle over who we want to be, as human beings. It’s the grappling with the questions, large and small, in and among the many relationships in which we exist, about whatRead more
The blame game
Isn’t it much easier to decide who’s fault it is than to stick your neck out and lead? Here’s a neat trick: Next time you’re setting out the pieces to play a round of the blame game, skip it. Instead, call out, “You know what, it was my fault.” (You’ve gotta mean it though–no sarcasm!)Read more
Sometimes crazy is a 12-lane superhighway
I had a friend in high school whose parents wouldn’t let him drive on the highway for the first year after he got his driver’s license. In New York City, where I now practice therapy, you could get around okay, but in Columbus, OH, it takes a hefty amount of creativity to get anywhere youRead more
Two meanings of catastrophe
I’ve had a number of conversations in the past few weeks with folks who’s lives, in one way or another, are falling apart. Being a psychotherapist, it’s not so unusual. What seems different is in just how many of these cases what fell apart needed to fall apart: A pursuit of a PhD 9 yearsRead more
The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers (from the NY Times)
I’ve been excited about this article from the New York Times for weeks. Basically, a group of researchers at Harvard “found” some credible evidence for more-than modest implications of a high-quality kindergarten teacher over the life of a child. By implications, of course, this is to say that the team of economists measured the impactRead more
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