Trauma
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 toxins for which we rely on our liver to metabolize, the world is filled with emotional matter that our…
Aug 16, 2016What 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 simply surviving. NICU parents are in limbo between the NICU, home and even, your…
Jul 19, 2016
No One Talks About The NICU Postpartum Trauma
Sharing Your Stories About The Trauma of NICU Postpartum. No one imagines the postpartum trauma of visiting your baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). No one imagines coming home without a baby. You imagine recovering in the hospital room with your newborn. You imagine bringing them home and fostering them into this new world, not waiting for a cab with baby stuff while preparing to…
Jun 28, 2016
How to survive a crisis: Lessons from PTSD and Trauma Therapy
Trauma therapists--therapists in NYC and elsewhere who treat PTSD--become experts in crisis. How we confront crises that don't constitute trauma, per se--those that wouldn't likely lead to a life experience that we might want to classify as PTSD--can be informed by the knowledge trauma therapists have gained from this work. For those therapists who were practicing therapy in NYC on and after…
Apr 26, 2016
Art as Therapy: The Shame to Pride Project
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". Stephanie's home from ages 11 to 18 years was not a…
Nov 17, 2015
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, a woman who was brutally attacked and killed near her home…
Sep 15, 2015The first rule of fight club: On trauma therapy and denial
Two kinds of trauma: trauma therapy and the problem of denial. We might say there are two sorts of trauma that present themselves in trauma therapy: trauma that is acknowledged, overtly expressed, laid bare; and trauma that is unacknowledged or ignored. In either instance, the pain of the trauma--the traumatic effect--is damaging. It leaves a sort of scar on the nervous system of the person…
Aug 24, 2015
PTSD, Trauma therapy and the problem with method
The United States military is one of the largest consumers of clinical psychology in the world and given that we are emerging from a period of sustained military conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the need for PTSD therapy and trauma therapy among combat veterans is high. The military is, if nothing else, a master of efficiency and, unsurprisingly, has brought a so-called empirically-based…
Jul 24, 2015
"I'll betcha": Reclaiming "Crazy" in NYC Therapy
Is it crazy for a therapist to use the word crazy?. I need to begin with a qualifier: As an established therapist in NYC, some of you may be a bit thrown off by my casual use of the word crazy. I get it. It may not fit your expectation of a therapist. If you've stumbled upon here as someone seeking therapy in NYC or as a therapist meandering on the internet, you may hear this not as the call to…
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