Trauma
What Will Happen To Relationships After Quarantine?: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist on All Of It with Alison Stewart
Practicing couples therapy through the pandemic, we’ve seen how romantic relationships, by default, have met needs that may have been met by numerous other people in partners’ lives during non-pandemic times. Looking ahead to after the pandemic (though we don’t quite know when that will be or what it will look like), couples are understandably asking themselves what will happen to their…
Mar 25, 2021
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Featured In Tessa Miller's Book "What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness–Lessons from a Body in Revolt"
We’re excited to share that our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist appears in health and science journalist Tessa Miller’s recently published book What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness–Lessons from a Body in Revolt. Half memoir and half examination of how to get help when struggling with chronic illness, What Doesn’t Kill You details Miller’s own experience with Crohn’s…
Feb 25, 2021
Am I Married to a Sociopath Like in HBO's The Undoing?: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in The Cut
In HBO’s drama series The Undoing, Grace Fraser, played by Nicole Kidman, is a highly trained psychotherapist who never recognized that her husband of seventeen years, Jonathan (Hugh Grant), was a sociopath. This has led many to wonder: if a Harvard-educated therapist could be in denial (even a fictional one), could I be married to a sociopath? Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist…
Dec 18, 2020
Pregnancy After Miscarriage or Pregnancy Loss: Tribeca Maternity Director Rachael Benjamin on Off the Mat
Being Pregnant After A Miscarriage Or Later-term Pregnancy Loss Can Be Complicated Emotionally. While miscarriages and pregnancy losses rarely get addressed as much as they should, the complex emotions around being pregnant after these early, late-term, or stillbirth losses are also frequently overlooked. In order to make it less intimidating to talk about these experiences, I participated in the…
Dec 10, 2020
Why Did The Vow's NXIVM Bar Therapists?: Senior Therapist Kelly Scott in Insider
As seen in HBO’s docuseries The Vow, alleged cult NXIVM twisted techniques of psychotherapy to abuse and control its members. Perhaps because good therapists would have identified the exploitation of therapeutic approaches, the group banned therapists from joining. Our Senior Therapist Kelly Scott is quoted in a second article in Insider that delves into how therapists may have questioned and…
Oct 29, 2020
Being Pregnant in the Time of the 2020 Election: It's Not Just Perinatal Anxiety, It's Politics
In A Year Of Upheaval, Anxiety About The Election Can Feel Overwhelming, Especially If You’re Pregnant. As the November election nears, many of my patients who are pregnant, as well as their partners, are struggling with a lot of anxiety. Anxiety during pregnancy, otherwise known as perinatal anxiety, isn’t unusual and is something many face. However this year, the anxiety may come from more than…
Oct 20, 2020
How NXIVM Abused Hallmarks of Psychotherapy in 'The Vow': Senior Therapist Kelly Scott in Insider
[caption id="attachment_6160" align="alignleft" width="300"] (Courtesy of WarnerMedia)[/caption]As therapists, it’s our job to be in charge of the safety of our patients, particularly around talking about traumatic experiences. Because we take this role seriously, we’re aware when others exploit these vulnerabilities such as the multi-level-marketing company turned alleged sex cult NXIVM, which…
Sep 28, 2020
When Going Through Infertility, You Can Actively Hold Grief And Hope
Infertility Is Painful, But You Can Take It On Powerfully With Both Grief And Hope . Infertility is a big word that encompasses many experiences. You may have been given a recommendation to see a reproductive endocrinologist because you have been trying to conceive for a year, you and your partner are part of the LGBTQ community and need ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) support, or you have…
Sep 09, 2020
We Need To Speak Up About How Black Women Are Dangerously Underserved During Maternity
Black Women And Their Families Experience Increased Risk During Pregnancy And Childbirth: Like With Police Brutality, Doctors, Healthcare Providers, And Therapists Need To Speak Up. Thanks to the Black Lives Matter movement, we are actively talking–both in my therapy practice and on a national (and international) level–about how Black lives have not been protected in our country. Mostly these…
Jul 09, 2020
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 3: How Can Couples Work With Hypervigilance?
In the previous parts of this three-part series, I explained how hypervigilance develops and the ways it can be useful, as well as how it can let both partners in a relationship down in substantive ways. For the third and final part of this series, I’ll explore how both individuals and partners can work with hypervigilance in a way that’s additive, rather than threatening, to their…
May 06, 2020
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 2: How Can It Let Couples Down?
In part one of this three-part series, I explored how hypervigilance develops in the first place and how it’s not only useful, but at times a vital protective tool for individuals, couples, and families. In part two, I’m emphasizing four ways that hypervigilance, despite its usefulness, tends to let individuals and their partners down in some substantive ways:Moralistic Thinking. Like most traits…
May 05, 2020
Therapy for Hypervigilance During COVID-19 Part 1: What Is Hypervigilance And Why Is It Useful?
You Might Have Been Right About COVID-19, But Your Partner Might Find Themselves In The Wrong. Some of my patients in my online therapy sessions have been aware of the massive ramifications of the coronavirus long before even our government. They anticipated the layoffs, the lack of PPE, the “staying inside” directives, and the shortage of access to food. Initially, many of these folks were sent…
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