We Use The Word Anxiety For Different Experiences Lately in my NYC anxiety therapy practice, it occurred to me that we use one word–anxiety–to talk about so many different kinds of experiences. This includes angst, dread, worry, fear, panic, agitation, aggression, stress, nervousness, jitteriness, distracted, impulsive, manic, unsettled, concerned, alienated and excited. The list couldRead more
Grief Therapy: Grief Is How We Heal
Grief (And Grief Therapy) Helps You Synthesize Traumatic Events Much of therapy is a process of grieving and this holds true for grief therapy. The healing is grief. For example, you experience trauma. Part of the nature of trauma is that it is of sufficient size and circumstances that you can’t synthesize that experience. ByRead more
Panic Attacks And The Upside Of Falling Apart
Panic Attacks: The Upside of Falling Apart Falling apart is inconvenient. But, in my NYC therapy practice, I find panic attacks can indicate that you need to fall apart–you’re overwhelmed and your body is telling you that in the form of a panic attack. Therapy can be a place to safely allow yourself to doRead 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
Reintegrating through Art: Art Therapy For Dissociation And Disconnection
Dissociation And Art Therapy Defenses are a truly amazing function of the human psyche. When a person is under a great deal of psychic pain or they are in danger, the unconscious has the capacity to step in and mentally contain the threat. Dissociation is one of many defenses that humans have the capacity toRead more
10 Ways Marriage Counseling Can Be Your Relationship’s Secret Weapon
Marriage Counseling Isn’t Just For Couples In Crisis Your relationship doesn’t need to be falling apart to seek marriage counseling. You wouldn’t wait for a lung infection to get dire before seeing a doctor, so why would you let your marriage get in trouble before seeing a marriage therapist? In fact, marriage counseling can be yourRead more
Family-Wide Anxiety
Entire Families Can Feel Anxiety Together Anxiety is often thought of and talked about on an individual basis. But, entire families can experience anxiety together. These can be divided into two types of anxiety: family anxiety and anxiety that is precipitated by one person but bleeds into the entire family system. Beginning with the former,Read more
The Best Therapist In NYC? You
Who is the best therapist in NYC? It’s you. Sure, you seek out therapy as you would any expert. A therapist’s skill is judged just like any other specialist in NYC. If you’re recovering from an accident, you want the best physical therapist in NYC, or, if you need an accountant, you search for theRead more
Radical Self-care Can Change Your Anxiety
Radical Self-care for Anxiety Often patients in my NYC anxiety therapy practice want a direct solution to care for their anxiety. They want to feel better in the moment when they feel overwhelming anxiety. Part of that solution is radical self-care. When you practice radical self-care, anxiety can change since, in a sense, radical self-careRead more
Dear Second Lady Karen Pence: Supporting Art Therapy Means Supporting Human Rights
August 28, 2020: Over three years after first writing about the fallacy of Second Lady Karen Pence’s support for art therapy, I was interested to hear that Ms. Pence revisited the benefits of art therapy during her Republican National Convention speech this past Wednesday. Focusing on how the Trump-Pence administration has supported the military, Ms.Read more
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