Group Therapy
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
"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"Just like me"
I got an email this morning from someone in New York who found my website searching for group therapy. He said a few things about himself, what he's struggling with, and then wrote, "I'm looking for a therapy group with people just like me."I was touched. It was clear that this guy spends most of his life feeling like the oddball. I could relate. For an awful lot of my life I felt the same way,…
May 24, 2011Group therapy: More than a bad cliche?
I recently took a fresh look at the online conversation around group therapy. Sadly, it was much as I'd expected.It's not hard to see where the cliches portrayed on sketch-comedy shows and in countless movies have come from. In fact, while surfing through videos on YouTube with the tag group therapy it was genuinely hard to tell which were intended as actual informative videos produced by group…
Apr 03, 2010
Curiouser and curiouser
How doth the little crocodileImprove his shining tail,And pour the waters of the NileOn every golden scale!-Alice, Lewis Carroll's Alice in WonderlandIt's surely of little surprise that I place such tremendous value on curiosity. It's what good therapists do: They get curious about their client's lives. I also think it's vital for everyone in living a fulfilling life and building meaningful…
Mar 14, 2010
Group Therapy: Give up your expertise on you
It's one of those beliefs so widely agreed on as to be beyond question: You are the exclusive expert on you.Being an expert tends to go along with not being so open to what other people have to say. And when it comes to ourselves, being an expert on you tends to mean being the expert on you.But the fact is, there's a whole lot about you that you're in the worst position to see. Like how you're…
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