Trauma
Grief Therapy: Grief Is How We Heal
Grief (And Grief Therapy) Helps You Synthesize Traumatic Events. Much of therapy is a process of grieving and this holds true for grief therapy. The healing is grief. For example, you experience trauma. Part of the nature of trauma is that it is of sufficient size and circumstances that you can’t synthesize that experience. By synthesize, I mean allowing the trauma and your sense of safety to…
May 18, 2017
Reintegrating through Art: Art Therapy For Dissociation And Disconnection
Dissociation And Art Therapy. Defenses are a truly amazing function of the human psyche. When a person is under a great deal of psychic pain or they are in danger, the unconscious has the capacity to step in and mentally contain the threat. Dissociation is one of many defenses that humans have the capacity to experience, which is a protective cutting off in order to create a safe distance from…
Apr 27, 2017
"In Recovery": Not Just For Addiction
“In recovery” is a phrase used often in reference to substance abuse. It infers that the demons of addiction will always be present, whether the person in recovery has three months of sobriety or three years. However, people can be “in recovery” from all sorts of patterns and issues that plague them even when substances are not involved.A Diagnosis Doesn’t Have to be Dooming. Many people enter my…
Mar 16, 2017
Thriving After Trauma: It's Relational, Not Inspirational
I think there are too many inspirational stories about trauma. You turn on the Today Show or Oprah and you see a person who “survived” trauma. You have soft music, a tell-tale story, and you feel inspired. However, the bigger picture is that they worked hard to thrive after their trauma. They worked on their relationship with themselves, the trauma, and the person/people who got close to them in…
Dec 15, 2016
How To Build A Powerful Relationship With Anxiety
Anxiety Can Be Hard To Define (Even In Therapy). Anxiety can mean a lot of different things–both in and out of therapy. When we reference anxiety, we’re often talking about a broad range of emotional and physical experiences. This can include–but is not limited to–stress, angst, trauma, hypervigilance, fear, nervousness, dread and even, a certain sort of enthusiasm or excitement.Anxiety is also…
Dec 06, 2016A 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, 2016Don’t Be Afraid To Call Your Response To The Orlando Shootings Trauma
Is witnessing the news of the attacks in Orlando a form of trauma?. The morning of June 12, many of us woke up to the traumatic news of the horrific attacks at Pulse nightclub in Orlando that left 49 LGBT-identified people dead and injured over 50 more. Like many, I watched Anderson Cooper cry while reading the names of these young people who lost their lives. I also watched interviews with the…
Jul 14, 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
Trauma and Object Photography: Keeping News Reporting Human
Images of Trauma in News Media. As an art therapist in NYC, I always take note of the images that are used in the mainstream media. It peaks my curiosity to reflect on what is being articulated beyond just the words in the article.In the past months, the world has watched in horror as Syrians have poured into neighboring countries looking for safety. Images of refugees in alien lands seek to…
May 17, 2016
Adult Coloring Books: An Intro to Art Therapy
In my NYC art therapy practice, I come across lots of adults who struggle with burn out and who would benefit from making more time for themselves in the day to day. Yet it can be hard to find something replenishing with packed schedules and limited resources. Enter adult coloring books!Coloring books are the perfect solution that you can pick up for three minutes or 30 minutes- they offer myriad…
May 03, 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…
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