Art and art therapy Artist Stephanie Calvert is using her own art as therapy in creating work using materials from her childhood home and I find it inspiring in my work as an art therapist. The Huffington Post’s Katherine Brooks features Ms. Calvert in her piece, “One Daughter is Turning Her Hoarding Parents’ Belongings into Beautiful Art“.Read more
Time-Release Therapy
As a therapist, I often wonder how to maximize the work I do with people. Forty five minutes a week of therapy is not much. You might get the initial “hit” of enlightenment, closeness, catharsis, empowerment, and so on but in order for those 45 minutes of therapy to really work their magic, the workRead more
Group Shaming in the Internet Age: The 21st Century Bystander Effect
The Effect of Groups on Our Capacity to Help I distinctly remember the first time I learned about social psychology–I was sitting in a large auditorium when my dry Psychology 101 professor clicked his slideshow to an image of NYC in the 60’s. As I doodled in the margins of my notebook, my professor began to speak about Kitty Genovese, aRead more
I’d Like to be Asleep for This: There’s No Anesthesia in Therapy
I got a letter in the mail recently from an insurance company asking for more information regarding the anesthesia therapy I provided. Hm, that’s odd. I know I sure as hell don’t do anything with anesthesia in my NYC therapy office. It turns out that the CPT code, a type of code insurance companies use toRead more
Outsider Art and the Challenge in Labeling
Labeling artists and concretely defining art movements has long been a challenge. Criteria often includes inspiration, influence, training, and proximity but there is plenty of room for gray area and interpretation. Priscilla Frank’s article, “What is the meaning of outsider art?”, highlights why those in the “outsider artist” category are even more challenging to designate than the typical artRead more
The Art of Therapy: An Uncertain Process
John-Morgan / Foter / CC BY Art therapy and art making: A process of discovery Early in my art therapy career, I asked a mentor how long it would take to be a “good” therapist. She laughed and rolled her eyes a little bit, as my question in itself negated what “good” therapy truly is.Read more
Suicidality in Therapy: Why Those Most in Need Often Get the Least Support
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 and Social Change
SantiMB.Photos / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND Therapy and Social Change There is nothing more important in therapy than our partnership. But of course you might say, “You’re a Therapist. Of course you have to believe in this partnership!” Let me tell you how I got there. I used to be a community organizer beforeRead more
Songs that get us through….
Editors note: We are pleased to add a third voice to the contributors here, Rachael Benjamin. Rachael is a psychotherapist and trained musician who joined our practice in 2012 as the second therapist after our founder and director, Matt Lundquist. Rachael speaks best about and through music, and has decided to feature many of thoseRead more
What are you? (Therapy patient? Client?)
If you’re like most people I talk to about this topic, you couldn’t care less about how we refer to the folks we work with in our NYC therapy office. In fact, the odds are slim that you’d ever be referred to by anything but your first name by your therapist. And so it mayRead more
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