Trauma
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Featured in Metro UK, The New York Post, and Vox
We’re excited to share that our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist was recently featured in Metro UK, The New York Post, and Vox, addressing, respectively, responses to childfree couples, affairs between coworkers at holiday parties, and navigating speaking to loved ones about health concerns.Inspired by the online backlash against a couple’s viral TikTok on the benefits of being in a…
Dec 12, 2023
“Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys”
When supporting a loved one through an intense experience, we need to remember: “Not my circus, not my monkeys”. “Not my circus, not my monkeys” is one of my favorite expressions. Coming from Polish, the phrase, simply put, means, “Not my problem.” What I like so much about the expression is that its particular metaphor indicates that something—in this case, monkeys—has escaped and is now running…
Nov 29, 2023
Therapy-Speak is Everywhere: We Should Consider How We Use It
Therapy-speak is our collective emotional language . Boundaries, narcissism, trauma, anxious, manic, neurotic, so OCD—it seems impossible to escape therapy-speak these days. Earlier this year, The New Yorker dedicated an issue to therapy, observing, “The language of the therapist’s office percolates in our everyday conversations.” They’re right—therapy-speak is our collective emotional language.…
Nov 16, 2023
Feeling Safe and Being Safe Aren’t the Same Thing (And It’s Often Hard to Tell the Difference)
There is an important distinction between feeling safe and being safe. “Everyone has a right to feel safe.” “I want you to feel really safe in my office.” These are things I often hear from other therapists and I find myself cringing in response. While there are worthwhile underlying values of safety inherent in these statements, there is also an unhelpful conflation between being safe and…
Oct 27, 2023
This Happened to Me, but It Isn’t Who I Am (Or Is It?)
It was just so unlike me, my life. [caption id="attachment_6825" align="alignleft" width="238"] Tina Turner, 1970 (Photo: Al Kaplan)[/caption]In the opening scene of HBO’s 2021 Tina Turner documentary, Tina, the Queen of Rock settles in for her interview with a reluctance observable throughout the film, one that characterizes, seemingly, her very participation in the film itself. If viewers know…
Oct 26, 2023
Numbness to Gun Violence Is the Symptom, Not the Disorder
“The problem is that we’ve all become numb to gun violence” is a statement that has circulated widely in response to the recent mass shootings at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York. However, as in medicine, when certain physical maladies cause numbness in a part or whole of the body, numbness to gun violence is a symptom of an underlying…
Jun 01, 2022
How to Process (And Help Kids Process) Feelings About the Uvalde Shooting: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist on All Of It With Alison Stewart
After the news of the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas this week, we’re all (yet again) processing a complicated myriad of feelings: grief, unsafety, fear, sadness, despair, anger, frustration, numbness, and much more. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist appeared on WNYC’s All Of It with Alison Stewart to respond to listeners’ concerns about how they—and…
May 27, 2022
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist and Senior Therapist Kelly Scott Quoted on Relationships in The Cut and Insider
As a practice known for its expertise in couples therapy, we’re lucky to regularly appear in publications relating to dating and relationships. Most recently, our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist and Senior Therapist Kelly Scott were featured in several articles for The Cut and Insider.In The Cut’s “There’s No Escaping the 5 Love Languages,” Matt weighs in on the continuing popularity…
Mar 01, 2022
Tribeca Maternity Director and Tribeca Therapy Senior Therapist Rachael Benjamin Featured in VeryWell and Health
We’re excited to share that Tribeca Therapy Senior Therapist and Director of Tribeca Maternity Rachael Benjamin appears in several articles in VeryWell and Health, offering her expertise in pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenting.Most recently, VeryWell writer Lakeisha Fleming spoke to Rachael about the difficulties of big life transitions, whether becoming a parent, a kid heading to college,…
Feb 09, 2022
Parents Have a Big Job to Do With Kids' Back-To-School Anxiety: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist on All Of It with Alison Stewart
Returning To School In-Person Means Kids Will Need A Lot of Support . As New York City schools return to in-person classes, many parents and kids are dealing with anxiety about yet another uncertain transition—one of many in the past year and a half. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist returned to WNYC’s All Of It with Alison Stewart to share his observations on the many concerns of…
Oct 07, 2021
We Need to Speak up About Birth Trauma: Senior Therapist and Tribeca Maternity Director Rachael Benjamin in Buzzfeed
Birth Trauma Needs To Be Addressed Openly: Buzzfeed Restarts The Conversation With Rachael Benjamin. Working with women and birthing people through trying to conceive, infertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, I often emphasize just how much of these emotional experiences go under-discussed. Perhaps one of the most overlooked is birth trauma, which can occur when a birth experience goes…
May 27, 2021
How To Deal With Reopening Anxiety: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist on All Of It With Alison Stewart
As more people are being vaccinated and NYC heads toward reopening, many of our patients are expressing conflicted feelings of anxiety about returning back to normal post-COVID. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist recently joined WNYC’s All Of It with Alison Stewart to discuss reopening anxiety as we experience yet another significant collective transition, as well as how people can…
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