With Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade’s Deaths, The Impulse Is To Ask Why He Or She Did It, But Can We Understand Why Anyone Would Commit Suicide? Like many in the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking and talking a lot, both in my NYC therapy practice and out, about Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade’sRead more
Ending A Relationship With An Unsafe Parent Or Family Member
Cutting Off A Parent Or Other Family Member Can Be Loaded In my NYC therapy practice, I’ve worked with patients who have had to end a relationship with their mom, dad, sibling and on rare occasions, child. In far more instances, there is a need or desire to pare down the relationship, but there areRead more
There Is A Danger In Not Taking Teens Seriously–Especially When It Comes To Gun Control
We Need To Take Teens Seriously About Guns On a recent Wednesday morning, I happened to have a break when I heard chanting outside the window of my NYC therapy practice. The noises were not that unusual given that my Tribeca office is just a block away from City Hall, a frequent site of protests.Read more
How Parents Can Help Lessen Children’s Anxiety
Whatever The Cause Of A Kid’s Anxiety, Parents Can Help In my Downtown Manhattan therapy practice, a lot of parents ask me where their kids’ anxiety comes from. Is anxiety something inherent within them or is something from their environment negatively affecting them? The question of nature vs. nurture has been debated practically since theRead more
How To Refer Someone To A Therapist
Seeing a Therapist in a NYC Group Practice Means Making Therapy Referrals With Confidence Part of the value of working in an NYC group practice is our ability to make referrals to a therapist in the practice (when that’s what makes sense–we also refer elsewhere). In our therapy practice, we have a good sense ofRead more
Beyond “The Right” Decision: Helping Teens Become Decision Makers
Parents, Therapists And Other Adults Need To Help Teens Be Decision Makers As a therapist who works with teens, I know teens have to face tons and tons of decisions all the time. The reality of being a teenager is there are certain adult decisions that have to be made for you. You can’t, forRead more
The Politics Of Therapy (Yes, There Are)
Many of us take therapists’ politics for granted. We think either politics shouldn’t matter or we should just expect that our therapists will be with it.Read more ►
13 Ways “13 Reasons Why” Expands The Conversation On Teens And Mental Health: 9. Parents, Check Your Shit To Take Care Of Your Teen
Yesterday, I highlighted distant parents and family as an important theme in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. As an NYC therapist who works with teens, the ninth way I see how the show expands on the conversation about teens and mental health is closely related: 9. Parents, Check Your Shit To Take Care Of Your TeenRead more
Relationship Counseling Isn’t Just For (Romantic) Couples
Relationship Counseling Can Help Many Kinds of Relationships Marriages and romantic couples aren’t the only relationships that benefit from relationship counseling. Ever hear someone say about a business partner or a sibling, “We fight like a married couple”? Relationship counseling is available to help any meaningful relationship that’s in trouble whether siblings, a parent andRead more
What Can Dr. Martin Luther King Teach Us About Disruption And Progress?
Looking back on this Dr. Martin Luther King Day, I thought about how Dr. King was, in many ways, a disruptor of an unhealthy status quo. I think those of us who didn’t live through the civil rights movement can, at times, underestimate just how disruptive it was. While Dr. King’s disruption affected the progress ofRead more
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