Group Therapy
Is Signing Up For Therapy An Overwhelming Decision?: A Collective Conversation
Matt: Just about every Psychology Today profile and half the therapists’ websites I come across open with some version of the phrase: “signing up for therapy is an overwhelming decision.” I don’t see it that way at all. Which is to say, I think it certainly can be overwhelming, especially if someone has had some bad therapy experiences or particularly struggles with trust. However, we don’t say…
Apr 09, 2019
Tribeca Therapy On Group Therapy In SELF Magazine
Is Group Therapy The Right Fit For Me?. Is group therapy right for me? How do I know if I should stick with individual therapy or join a group? These are questions that often come up around group therapy in our NYC therapy practice. Of course, we’re on record asserting that group therapy is incredibly helpful, and that even reluctant group therapy patients will sometimes find group therapy more…
Mar 21, 2019
Making Friends Is More Than A Numbers Game
Making Friends Is About Building Something With Another Person. Patients sometimes come into my NYC therapy practice asking about how to make friends as an adult. It is, of course, much, much harder than when you’re younger. When you’re in college, high school or even, still new to the workplace, the opportunities to meet people organically are fairly plentiful. School and the lifestyle right…
Sep 06, 2018
24 Signs You’re In Bad Therapy
Bad Therapy Is Bad For Your Health. As a therapist in NYC, a city with so many therapy options, it bugs me when people are in bad therapy. My biggest concern with patients who stick with bad therapy isn’t only that bad therapy turns people off to therapy, making it less likely they’ll try again and get good help, but it also lowers their expectations. Even when they reach out, they’ve been…
Jun 28, 2018
Communicating Through Song: Music In Therapy
Both in my NYC therapy practice and privately, I’ve always felt that music is able to express things that we have a hard time communicating to ourselves and in relationships. I’ve often personally found that lyrics written by someone else can say more emotionally than we can articulate on our own. The music we hold dear is another way we are emoting whether sadness, loss, grief, fear, trauma or…
Sep 20, 2016
The Evolution of Art Therapy in an NYC Therapy Practice
We continue our series of conversations with a look at art therapy in our NYC therapy practice. Rather than a collective conversation like several of our previous posts, this conversation focuses on Heather Mayone Kiely who has expanded the practice with her experience and passion as both an art therapist and artist.Matt: We met close to five years ago when I was looking to expand our NYC therapy…
Jul 28, 2016
"Tell Me I’m Fat": Conversations about weight and honesty in therapy
Conversations about weight in a NYC therapy office?. Listening to the recent episode “Tell Me I’m Fat” of the podcast This American Life, I began thinking about weight, appearance, and honesty in therapy. The episode, which aired on June 17, invited a series of guests including writers Lindy West and Roxane Gay to talk about their experiences being fat, maneuvering through the world as a fat…
Jul 26, 2016Group Practice: A nonstandard approach in NYC therapy
Group Practice: A nonstandard approach in NYC therapy. This is the first in what will be a series of conversations completed by our NYC therapists. The conversation, discussing our therapists' views on the significance of working in a group practice, was completed over a series of days.Matt: We practice therapy as part of a group practice. We collaborate in our clinical work, share a strong point…
May 10, 2016
Breaking the strata: Diversity of group therapy in NYC
Group therapy in NYC: The 4-train in therapy. Group therapy is my favorite way to help people. I love how unpredictable it is. Not unlike New York itself.I sometimes feel that NYC is a less of a city than a collection of cities piled on top of one another--it's a wild place to practice therapy. At times we can experiences this almost literally, as in where we find ourselves at a vantage point…
Apr 12, 2016
No, we don't offer support groups at TriBeCa Therapy
As a therapy center in the heart of New York City that offers several options for group therapy, we get a lot of calls from prospective therapy patients asking if we offer support groups.Nope. No way. Why? Because we don't believe in the premise.There are a lot of modalities of therapy and counseling we're into, and we love group therapy. But the assumption of a support group is that the thing…
Nov 12, 2012
Crowdsourcing your therapy...? The New Yorker's (accidental) endorsement of group therapy
I won't deny that it was a treat to see The New Yorker finally take on group therapy, even if accidentally. The New Yorker magazine, of course, is about as ubiquitous in New York City psychotherapy offices as Oriental rugs, over-sized plastic paddles stamped "MEN" and "WOMEN" attached to tiny keys, and the static drone of those off-white, domed noise-making machines. Every issue seems to have at…
Feb 01, 2012Why's everyone picking on group therapy?
Group therapy just can't catch a break.Here's a video of animals from NYC's Bronx Zoo with a group therapist working through the difficult feelings they're having about the budget cuts New York City has proposed for its funding of the zoo: In politics, a reference to group therapy seems like a pejorative for politicians getting together and feeling sorry for themselves, as in this posting…
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