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
Filling In The Blanks: Therapy for Adults Who Grew Up Too Fast
So many people that walk through the door of my NYC therapy practice are high achieving, bright, and successful. However, many find themselves struggling in certain areas of their lives because they had to grow up too fast. We often get to a place in our work where they ask me a version of: “If IRead more
“We Got This”: A Conversation On Pain And Intimacy In An NYC Therapy Practice
I met Rachael six years ago, in the early stages of working to expand Tribeca Therapy into a group practice. She has a quality that is difficult to describe, but known well to everyone on our staff and certainly to her patients. I asked her some questions about this in an attempt to better understandRead more
Growing From The Relationship: An Art Therapist Talks About Social Anxiety
In my NYC art therapy practice, I work with a lot of folks who are looking for therapy for social anxiety. Many who seek this sort of help find that in social interactions they are so uncomfortable and in their head that it renders them completely stumped and stuck around others. Initially in therapy, itRead more
Beyond The DSM And Diagnostic Language In Therapy
I recently began thinking about the DSM-5 and the language we use in my NYC therapy practice after listening to a Philosophy Bites podcast with Dr. Steven E. Hyman. In the podcast, Hyman discusses the limitations he sees in the “rigid and arbitrary” boundaries set up in the DSM between what is considered “healthy” orRead more
A Collective NYC Therapist Conversation On Grief
I’ve been thinking a lot the last several months about the process of grief and how central it is to all therapy. I’ve come to understand grief less as something that visits us in rare moments of loss or trauma but as an ever-present part of daily life. Not unlike the filtering of everyday toxinsRead more
Visual Storytelling: An Art Therapist Talks About Grief
The many faces of grief brought to therapy Grief is a central part of my NYC art therapy practice. The word, “grief” typically elicits images of death or a breakup, but it is much broader and far-reaching than that. Grief touches us all in different ways and many people who enter our doors at Tribeca Therapy areRead more
“Tell Me I’m Fat”: Conversations about weight and honesty in therapy
Conversations about weight in a NYC therapy office? Listening to the recent episode “Tell Me I’m Fat” of the podcast This American Life, I began thinking about weight, appearance, and honesty in therapy. The episode, which aired on June 17, invited a series of guests including writers Lindy West and Roxane Gay to talk aboutRead more
Therapy with Teens: A Collective NYC Therapist Conversation on Adolescence
Following our last collective post on therapy for depression, we are continuing our ongoing series of conversations with a focus on therapy for teens. How do we–as a practice and as individual therapists–approach working with teens and what would we like parents to know? What is different about the experiences of NYC teens? And how can therapyRead more
What Should Parents Do After Leaving The NICU: A Postpartum Toolkit
A helpful toolkit for NICU parents In my last post, I encouraged parents dealing with postpartum NICU trauma to share their stories with each other, friends, family or a therapist. Thinking further about the NICU experience and talking with parents, I realized when you have a child or children in the NICU you are simplyRead more
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