We’re excited to share that our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist is featured in Health and O.school, speaking, respectively, on how grief support groups can help after loss and how a relationship can recover after cheating. In “Are Grief Support Groups Helpful—and How Do You Find One? Here’s What Experts Say,” Matt talks withRead more
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 someRead more
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 incrediblyRead more
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 peopleRead more
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 againRead more
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 holdRead more
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 metRead more
“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 aboutRead more
Group 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 aRead more
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 practiceRead more