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How To Tell Your Partner You Want To Seek Couples Therapy

Posted on August 6, 2020 in Couples Therapy and Relationships, Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

Approaching the subject of couples therapy with your partner can seem intimidating. There are a handful of reasons a partner may be resistant to therapy. Primarily, though, the enemy is frequently the idea of couples therapy versus their fear. Often in our couples therapy practice, couples have one partner who is terrified, but are quicklyRead more

We Need To Speak Up About How Black Women Are Dangerously Underserved During Maternity

Posted on July 9, 2020 in Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Remote Therapy During COVID-19, Therapy, Therapy for Post-partum Depression, Therapy for Stress, Trauma and PTSD Therapy, Tribeca Maternity

Black Women And Their Families Experience Increased Risk During Pregnancy And Childbirth: Like With Police Brutality, Doctors, Healthcare Providers, And Therapists Need To Speak Up Thanks to the Black Lives Matter movement, we are actively talking–both in my therapy practice and on a national (and international) level–about how Black lives have not been protected inRead more

A Family Needs To Grieve The Loss Of Their Old Way Of Life Due To COVID-19

Posted on April 7, 2020 in Couples Therapy and Relationships, Family Therapy, Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for anxiety, Therapy for Grief, Therapy for Stress

Remote Family Therapy During COVID-19: Families Are Experiencing A Loss Of Their Typical Everyday Life And Routine While doing remote family therapy over the phone and video chat such as Skype and Zoom these past few weeks, I’ve been talking to families that have been thrust into a new life–schools closing, both parents working fromRead more

We Need To Ask Better Questions Of Each Other: 12 Questions To Ask Teens

Posted on March 19, 2020 in Couples Therapy and Relationships, Creativity, Family Therapy, Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for Teens

Asking Teens Better Questions Can Help Them Establish (And Reestablish) Who They Are Becoming For the final incarnation of my series on how to ask better questions in our relationships, I’m focusing on teens. A teen needs to be asked deeper and better questions so that parents and other important adults in their life canRead more

We Need To Ask Better Questions Of Each Other: 10 Questions To Ask Elementary-Aged Children

Posted on March 12, 2020 in Couples Therapy and Relationships, Creativity, Family Therapy, Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

Elementary-Aged Kids Aren’t Usually Asked Deeper Questions: It’s Time We Start Parents and other adults often ask questions of elementary-aged children quickly like a laundry list to address physical and immediate emotional needs. Adults don’t usually ask kids questions in exploration, but as a way to gather concrete data about socialization or academics. Kids aren’tRead more

We Need To Ask Better Questions Of Each Other: 7 Questions To Ask Young Adults Who Recently Graduated College

Posted on March 5, 2020 in Couples Therapy and Relationships, Creativity, Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for Young Adults

After College, Young Adults Are In Transition: Asking Better Questions Can Help Continuing my series on how to ask better questions in our relationships, young adults who have recently graduated college are at a transitional moment in which asking deeper questions of them can be particularly helpful. Post-college graduation is one of the most unknown,Read more

We Need To Ask Better Questions Of Each Other: 9 Questions To Ask A Partner

Posted on February 27, 2020 in Couples Therapy and Relationships, Creativity, Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

Better Questions Create Closer, Continually Evolving Relationships In general, we suck at asking questions to the people around us, particularly once we feel comfortable in our relationships. We assume we know them and that we don’t need to ask these intimate, sometimes uncomfortable questions any longer. However, asking deeper questions (questions beyond the simple dailyRead more

You Don’t Hit Rock Bottom: You Declare It

Posted on February 13, 2020 in Couples Therapy and Relationships, Drug and Alcohol Counseling, Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

Hitting Rock Bottom Is Too Passive Rock bottom is often used in the context of alcoholism or drug abuse. However, it can be true with regard to staying in a bad relationship or abusive work environment, avoiding getting more childcare or tolerating painful emotions without help. The most common phrase concerning rock bottom is “hittingRead more

We Need To Learn Kindness With Conditions

Posted on November 7, 2019 in Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for anxiety, Therapy for Stress

When Over-functioning Due To Anxiety, We Often Take Ourselves Out Of The Equation Anxiety causes us to over-function in the world, and in our drive to do it all, our own needs often get ignored. From the outside it looks as if we’re high-functioning: the bills are paid, the house is clean, we’re killing itRead more

Announcing Heather Mayone Kiely, LCAT As Director Of Tribeca Therapy

Posted on September 3, 2019 in Art Therapy, Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, TriBeCa

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