Anxiety is a normal part of teen development that I see in my NYC therapy practice. Between college admission, SAT/ACT prep, stressors of social dynamics in and outside of high school, the first semesters of college and just being a teen, is it any wonder teens are anxious? This is all normal anxiety and thisRead more
Art As A Tool For Empowerment After This Election
As an art therapist in NYC, I know firsthand that art can have a profoundly positive impact on feelings of disempowerment and oppression. Art-making gives us a way to be big, powerful, and assert control over the materials. It also gives the artist an opportunity to make images that express and work through exactly whatRead more
A Collective NYC Therapist Conversation On The 2016 Presidential Election
The 2016 presidential election has impacted our therapy practice in a number of ways. This conversation on the election took place over roughly a month–much longer than our typical collective conversations. This is indicative of our own complicated feelings about what the election has brought forth and how hard it has been to verbalize. We publish thisRead more
Shameless Self-Promotion: Marketing Matters In Therapy
Recently, I have been thinking about the importance of putting good stuff out there–boldly and well-presented. A huge part of my mission as a NYC therapist is to market myself the best I possibly can. Marketing is so often conceived as a dirty word. The reality, though, is that when you’re searching for a therapist,Read more
Are You An Alien Or An Astronaut?
“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House We are all travelers, in one sense or another. In some proportion, we spend time with the familiar and the unfamiliar, and we also have experiences with feelings of belonging and not belonging. Reconciling that experience ofRead more
Finding A Therapist In NYC
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
How To Leave Your Therapist
In my NYC therapy practice, I hear horror stories about my patient’s past therapists where they have wasted time and energy and even encountered some harm. It is disturbing enough to hear about the transgressions of those in my profession, but it is even more upsetting to hear that many of my patients stuck around andRead more
Therapy Should Not Be Silent About Politics
Getting Out From Behind Closed Doors In my NYC therapy practice, most patients expect to talk to me about their micro environment–their friends, family, co-workers or significant others. However, they often feel like the greater macrocosm of society and politics are off limits, as are the topics of race, gender, sexuality, and religion. In therapy, includingRead 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
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