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
What to do when you’re in (emotional) pain. (Hint: Act like a baby!)
I don’t turn off my awareness of emotional pain when I leave the therapy office. Here in New York we see people expressing their troubles on the street or on the subway (or on the internet) in all sorts of ways. For most New Yorkers, overhearing someone screaming and yelling on the A train isRead 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
Therapy and burnout
I get a number of emails from folks outside of New York asking questions about therapy. High school students looking for advice on therapy as a career or a young therapist asking for tips on starting his or her own practice. A few months ago I got on that has me thinking about what itRead more
Therapy at its best: Doing what you don’t know how to do
It seems these two Irish lads were on their way to somewhere else for the day, when they came upon a wall seemingly too high to scale. They stood there for awhile in the cold morning mist pondering their dilemma. As they looked at that wall standing in their way, they took their caps offRead more
“Trust me, I’m a psychologist”
msmiffy / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA Mind Hacks, a psychology and neuroscience blog, posted a piece called Trust me, I’m a brain scan. They report on a study (a meta-study, actually—a study of studies) that found that, when the results of a particular piece of research are presented alongside a picture of a brain scan,Read more
Wanting more from your therapy (and your life)
9eorge / Foter / CC BY-ND Do you have a wanting problem? I think you might. It’s pandemic. A question of what’s possible from therapy So, so many of the people I work with at my NYC therapy practice set deep, broad limits on what they imagine they’ll be able to accomplish, in therapy andRead more
I hate therapy (and don’t even get me started on psychotherapy)
Ok, I hate the word therapy. Or, more to the point, I hate the word therapy as a word to describe what I do. How come? I hadn’t looked up therapy until just this moment, but it’s always smelled of illness to me. When I hear “therapy” I think less about the coming together ofRead more
How to get good help from mediocre therapy
If you live in NYC, finding a therapist is easy. Finding a good therapist in New York is a bit trickier. Perhaps you’re a New Yorker who feels like he or she really needs to find a therapist who’s in-network with your insurance plan (I don’t recommend it, but not everyone follows that advice). MaybeRead more
We are a social species. Maybe our therapy should start looking like it.
Q: How come the rents are so high in New York City? A: Because of all the people who want to live there. We are here in NYC because of all of the people, the jobs, the opportunities to date and build friendships, to experience culture. And yet for most people in NYC their therapyRead more
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