We’re excited to announce that Heather Mayone Kiely, LCAT has been appointed to the position of Director at Tribeca Therapy. As our practice has continued to grow considerably, we recognize that we grow by doing excellent clinical work. Heather has been an increasingly valued contributor to that, and this new role as Director is understoodRead more
Don’t Hide After A Breakup: You Need Your Friends, Family, And Therapist
Breaking Up Is Painful And Isolating: A Team Of Your Friends, Family, And Therapist Can Provide Support As a therapist, I see how people want to hide after a breakup. Often they are embarrassed, feeling at a loss, or that life as they know it doesn’t make sense or compare to their peers. There’s alsoRead more
Tribeca Therapy On How Couples Can Talk About The Tough Stuff (Like Money And Death) In HerMoney
The Hardest Topics For Couples To Talk About Often Have The Highest Stakes Most of the hardest topics for most couples to talk about have the highest stakes. In particular, money and death are hugely consequential both materially and emotionally. Emphasizing the importance of talking about these difficult topics, Tribeca Therapy was featured in anRead more
What Is Philosophy’s Place In The Therapy Room?: Two NYC Therapists Discuss
Matt Lunquist: I have an undergraduate degree in philosophy, but most of my understanding of philosophy comes from largely informal study well after I graduated. I don’t represent myself as an expert in philosophy by any means. Your training is more formal and extensive, and your path towards an integration of the two seems moreRead more
Tribeca Therapy On Travel As A Creativity And Relationship Reset In Jetsetter
Most of our patients at Tribeca Therapy are overworked professionals who are often dealing with two competing interests: having too many demands on their time and not having enough space to be creative. Our practice was recently featured in Jetsetter, speaking to the ways in which travel can sometimes act as a “hard reset.” In theRead more
Debunking The Authority Of The DSM
Non-Diagnostic Therapy: Diagnosis As An Offering For Exploration A common misunderstanding about our non-diagnostic therapy practice is that non-diagnostic means “no diagnosis” or “diagnosis = bad.” I’m not against diagnosis and not just because of insurance companies. There is a hugely significant body of work that has produced a few hundred diagnoses and an entireRead more
A Collective NYC Therapist Conversation On Building Trust In Therapy
Matt: I’ve been thinking a lot about trust and the ways that we understand it to be the opposite of distrust (The prefix “dis” makes this pretty clear). That understanding is so very wrong, and supports some pretty unself-protective ways of operating. In this construction, trust is a thing, for one who struggles with it,Read more
We Should Engage In More Emotional Labor, Not Less
The Problem With The Construction Of Emotional Labor Is It’s Anti-labor In the last few years, emotional labor has become a frequent topic of conversation, defining it among other kinds of labor that are unequally assigned, usually along gendered lines, with women taking on more of the work. While this discussion is undoubtedly crucial, theRead more
How Do Patients Benefit From Therapy With A Group Practice?: A Collective Conversation
Matt: A few years ago, we had a collective conversation about the benefits of working in a group therapy practice itself. Recently, I’ve continued to think about our group practice formulation and want to revisit the topic from a slightly different angle. What do you think are the benefits to our patients about the wayRead more
Celebrating Ten Years of Therapy in Tribeca
This Friday marks the tenth anniversary of Tribeca Therapy. Celebrating and considering how our practice has grown since I first opened the private practice in 2009, I think of our first little office, borrowing money from my dad to buy furniture, and later assuring Heather, Rachael and Karen after we expanded into a group practiceRead more
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