During a crisis like a pandemic, people need art more and not less, as a way to be generative, keep living, and holding on to our vitality. In our online therapy sessions, we understand that art making can be a healthy and powerful tool particularly for relieving anxiety. Drawing on her expertise as an artRead more
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 3: How Can Couples Work With Hypervigilance?
In the previous parts of this three-part series, I explained how hypervigilance develops and the ways it can be useful, as well as how it can let both partners in a relationship down in substantive ways. For the third and final part of this series, I’ll explore how both individuals and partners can work withRead more
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 2: How Can It Let Couples Down?
In part one of this three-part series, I explored how hypervigilance develops in the first place and how it’s not only useful, but at times a vital protective tool for individuals, couples, and families. In part two, I’m emphasizing four ways that hypervigilance, despite its usefulness, tends to let individuals and their partners down inRead more
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 1: What Is Hypervigilance And Why Is It Useful?
You Might Have Been Right About COVID-19, But Your Partner Might Find Themselves In The Wrong Some of my patients in my online therapy sessions have been aware of the massive ramifications of the coronavirus long before even our government. They anticipated the layoffs, the lack of PPE, the “staying inside” directives, and the shortageRead more
Tolerating Uncertainty Doesn’t Mean Expecting The Worst-Case Scenario, Even During COVID-19
Patients Ask Us In Teletherapy: How Are We Supposed To Tolerate Uncertainty During COVID-19? We are living in a hugely uncertain time right now. Doing online therapy in NYC, we make sure to emphasize to patients that it’s okay to be scared, sad and angry right now. It’s okay not to know. We don’t knowRead more
A Family Needs To Grieve The Loss Of Their Old Way Of Life Due To COVID-19
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
Tribeca Therapy On The Stress Of Signing A Mortgage And Other Big Life Decisions In HerMoney
Major life decisions, such as signing a mortgage or getting married, can understandably cause a lot of stress and anxiety. Recently, Tribeca Therapy was quoted in HerMoney on why even when feeling good about a life decision, we can also experience fear and worry at the same time. In “Why Did My Mortgage Feel SoRead more
We Need To Learn Kindness With Conditions
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
How Parents Can Help Their College Student’s Transitional Anxiety
Starting College Is A Social And Emotional Transition For Your Young Adult When your young adult goes to college, parents are aware that the academic challenges will increase. But what we don’t often talk to our kids about–and what frankly can be hard to discuss–is that there is a big transition for young adults inRead more
Rather Than Getting Rid Of Anxiety, We Should Find A Fluid Way To Relate To It
Dealing With Anxiety Is More Complex Than Simply Getting Rid Of It In both psychology and our culture at large, we often talk about treating anxiety by getting rid of it completely. Within this framework, there is one outcome for dealing with anxiety: not having anxiety. This thinking can corner people who are struggling, andRead more
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