How To Find A NYC Therapist Finding a therapist in NYC is a lot like dating. You scour the internet for someone whose profile seems right and when you think you may have found a match, you schedule some phone time. If that goes well, you make a date to meet in person. As thisRead more
Let’s talk about sex! (In therapy!)
I practice pro-sex therapy. I don’t really feel I have the option not to in my NYC therapy office. In the case of sex, everyone has it, had had it or has a significant relationship with it. Sex is such a vital part of who we are as human beings. To ignore it would beRead more
Talking Social Media, Relationships and Therapy On Love Bites
Last week, I was pleased to be invited by Jacqueline Raposo to join her and her co-host Ben Rosenblatt on their NYC-based weekly radio show Love Bites on the Heritage Radio Network to talk about social media and its impact on dating and relationships that I see in my therapy practice (listen here). We spokeRead more
Exploring Your Tribe: Family Therapy and Family History
Family history in family therapy and beyond Through my work as a psychotherapist and family therapist, I’ve learned that understanding family histories and identifying family patterns can help us understand why we find ourselves in repeated situations. This is vital in both family therapy–where a family unit is in the therapy office, as well asRead more
Family therapy: For New Yorkers an unconsidered psychotherapy option
JenGallardo / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND New York family therapists love family therapy Therapists who offer family counseling love family counseling. And often, those who aren’t family therapists find the idea of family counseling terrifying. Ironically this is often for the same reasons. Families are tough. If you’ve spent time in one, it’s like thatRead more
I didn’t say we _wouldn’t_ be talking about your mother in therapy
We have something of a reputation here at TriBeCa Therapy for being therapists who aren’t overly invested in the psychoanalytic method of excavating the past. It’s accurate, and it’s a reputation that’s been well earned on our part. We take exception to two corresponding assumptions underlying the dominance so often placed onRead more
Gray is the color of human
It’s so often the stuff of therapy: People piss us off. They hurt our feelings. Lie. Deceive. Over promise and under deliver. Ex-boyfriends cheat. Former bosses withhold money we’re owed. People do bad things. In NYC you hardly have to step outside for someone to rub you the wrong way. It sucks, and when thatRead more
Stop listening
Hryck. / Foter / CC BY Wherever I wander in New York City, people make a lot of assumptions about me as a therapist. People figure I’m psychoanalyzing them (I’m not–I don’t even do that in the therapy room). They wonder how I can “handle listening to people’s problems all day” and they nearly universallyRead more
Inconvenience
“I’m sorry to bother you with all this drama.” “I’m your therapist. Bothering me with drama is pretty much the job description.” Other professions whose job descriptions include this responsibility: friend, mom, dad, brother, sister. Convenience is great, I suppose. But the best things, well, aren’t. A slow cooked sauce, or an out-of-the-way inn inRead more
Counterintuitive thoughts on giving
Giving is a good thing. You’re down with that. Hold doors, remember birthdays, pick up the tab, volunteer to swing the hammer and serve the soup. Good stuff. There are some moves in life that I’m a fan of that aren’t what might come to mind when it comes to giving, but I think they’reRead more