In Therapy, The Issue Of Change Is Both Complex And Essential As a NYC therapist and a human who believes in growth, I can’t imagine an issue of more concern to me than change. My ideas about change can be broken down into a three-part thesis: People change. The world changes. People can change themselvesRead more
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. ByRead more
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 toRead more
“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 substancesRead more
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 theirRead more
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 certainRead more
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 toxinsRead more
What 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 simplyRead more
Don’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 whileRead more
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, notRead more
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