Keoni Cabral / Foter / CC BY Suicide is a loaded issue, even within the therapy community. Sulome Anderson‘s article in The Atlantic, “How Patient Suicide Affects Psychiatrists” addresses numerous issues therapists struggle with. Anderson invokes this issue of the undesirable therapy patient in a very personal way. The author’s friend, Margaret, had numerous suicide attempts, self-harming behaviors,Read more
Therapy, dis-equilibrium and growth
Therapy is a necessarily uncomfortable process. Development, in or out of the therapy office, is a disruption of our emotional equilibrium. That’s generally–definitionally–disorienting. Too often our NYC therapy patients (and all of us) conflate equilibrium with happiness. Equilibrium suggests a sort of inertia or balance (a term especially revered these days) but we can justRead more
How the Hospital Environment Perpetuates Mental Illness
The Impact of a Space on Mental Health At Tribeca Therapy, my colleagues and I take great care to create a welcoming space that inspires creativity and growth. The aesthetics and the feel of any office is reflective of the treatment you are going to receive. Our space has a clean modern feel that reflects our professionalismRead more
Particular to you, not unique to you
madamepsychosis / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND Unique has become a hot word in the zeitgeist the last several years and has taken up its place in the therapy room. My altogether unscientific theory is that its popularity catapulted when the Food Network added a second channel, the Cooking Channel and suddenly had twice the spaceRead more
How Working With Aspergers Patients Makes Me a Better Therapist
Aspergers Therapy: Making me a better therapist and better at relationships Here at Tribeca Therapy, we offer Aspergers therapy and see a good number of folks with a formal diagnosis or Aspergers or who find some meaning in Aspergers in helping them make sense of how they make sense of the world. I make anRead more
Notes on anger management in NYC
An anger management workshop in NYC with a difference (or so I was told) A few years ago I was invited by a new colleague to an anger management therapy workshop at her therapy practice in NYC. We had connected as therapist colleagues and had some conversations about the practice of therapy in NYC andRead more
The Overreaching Net of the Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis
Bipolar disorder: A troubling misunderstanding outside the therapy office Bipolar disorder is one of those therapy diagnoses that has made it from the world of psychotherapy into pop culture to such an extent that it is now a slang term. You might hear someone say, outside of a therapy office, “oh, he’s so bipolar” toRead more
Therapy for New Yorkers who hate therapy
en-ri / Foter / CC BY-NC My Specialty? I work with New Yorkers who hate therapy. It started out as a joke. Generally it’s another NYC therapist who asks, though often it’s regular New Yorkers making small talk. But it’s always with the therapists: What’s your specialty? The question bugs me. It sets me upRead more
Hit the roof
We started in my therapy office then changed scenes to the office rooftop. There was a lot of anxiety. She was disassociating from her body, meaning having trouble being in our space, present in her body and present with me. So we went for a walk. Many of my patients have a hard time beingRead more
Ritual as a Tool for the Young Adult Transition
Starting the first full-time job as a therapist–lessons for the young adult? In my therapy work with young adults, a big focus is the transition from student into full-time employee and essentially from adolescence to full-fledged adulthood. The transition can be a bit of a shock to the system as adulthood is a marathon, not a sprint. Cramming and pullingRead more
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