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Tribeca Therapy strives to be an expression of our shared values as therapists. We believe that decency, equity, and creating a good life are all central to the practice of therapy and that therapy has a role in questions of morality and political identity.

Foremost in the execution of these values is respect for the intensive practices through which therapists become great therapists. This includes a primary commitment to self-work—the process in which a therapist confronts the challenges of the work, as laid bare in clinical situations and supervision, as opportunities to grow emotionally, intellectually, and professionally. At Tribeca Therapy, community and collaboration are central catalysts for self-work, with both peers and supervisors invested in identifying areas of development and acting as support.

Because many significant aspects of emotional life have so often been rendered taboo, we strive to speak to and build fluency in uncomfortable topics like sex and sexuality (including not having sex), bodies (including bodies of difference, as locations and storage centers of trauma, as harmed, discriminated against, or ignored, and as locations of beauty and pleasure), privilege, pain, and trauma.

We believe that all therapists must be fluent in the complicated racial history of mental health treatment and be intent on changing it. We are committed to the affirmative inclusion of all gender expressions and sexual orientations. Our mission is to move beyond the rhetoric of tolerance and inclusion and towards the objective of being fluent in matters of clinical importance to marginalized people who seek our help.

Our interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy is driven by our understanding of human beings as historical, meaning that suffering comes from our histories and must be understood in this context. We practice and provide rigorous training in a psychoanalytic approach that is:

• Flexible: Treatment must be responsive to the needs of the individual, couple or family seeking help. Method can't overrule the needs at hand and the judgement of the provider.
• Relational: The therapist is human an engages in a real relationship, which is a significant location of change.
• Progressive: The shared values of those engaged in treatment matter.

Our methodology has emerged from our values, not the other way around.

We work extensively with couples and families and make use of Family Systems Theory as a meaningful, integrated compliment to our psychoanalytic perspective.

Therapists at Tribeca Therapy are exposed to a broad range of ideas within these methodologies.

Founded in 2009 by Matt Lundquist as a solo private practice, Tribeca Therapy expanded to a group practice in 2012. From the start, Tribeca Therapy expressly challenged the medical model in favor of a clinical practice grounded in a core belief in humanism—a moral belief in human life as valuable, capable, and worthy of deep respect regardless of status. Matt and Tribeca Therapy quickly developed a reputation for providing vibrant therapy that was active, playful, and creative in contrast to what he often saw as manualized and dogmatic.

The experience of community at Tribeca Therapy comes from the fact that we’re not just sharing space and referrals; we’re building something together. Our therapists want to connect because they share values—not just political and social values, but also the psychoanalytic values of self-examination and self-work.

Because or work is psychoanalytic, supervision, training and development are exposing--we grow along side those we care for--and that exposure requires that we bring extra rigor to our consideration of vulnerability, consent, power and boundaries. We believe therapists cannot grow in this work with it confronting profound personal disruption. Our community reflects on how it operates, is sensitive to harm, and is particularly reflective on questions of race, gender, and traditionally marginalized identities.

We’re invested in the ongoing professional growth of our therapists, both financially and clinically. We provide high-quality supervision, including training and supervision from our network of outside professionals, and full access to our training center, Emerging Practices. For experienced therapists, we teach and train in the unique skills of supervision.

Many of our programmatic offerings have emerged from the clinical interests of members of our team. This includes our maternal mental health project, Tribeca Maternity; the expansion of our family therapy offerings; and our work with gender-nonconforming and transitioning children and teens and their families. Our practice is regularly invited to provide mental health workshops and training in our areas of expertise, as well as offer commentary in the media on current events related to mental health. We also have an active website and social media presence with a substantial readership, providing opportunities for therapists to work with our editorial team on publishing content.

The centerpiece of our practice is an intensive combination of individual and group supervision for therapists at all levels of experience. While everyone in our practice receives supervision, including weekly group supervision and quarterly staff days, which provide a concentrated deep-dive day of supervision, therapists new to the practice receive weekly or twice weekly individual supervision to learn our methodological approach and build a relationship with an individual supervisor that is key to successful practice. 

We regularly consult with and receive supervision and training from experts outside of our practice, recognizing both the limits of our expertise and the benefits of our culture being regularly infused with different ideas and influences. 

In addition to process supervisions and case consultations, we make extensive use of role play, process recordings, and didactic methods. Becoming a therapist—or becoming a better therapist—is a transformation and, like all transformations, can be uncomfortable. We take the building of trust as colleagues and supervisors/ supervisees seriously so that we may take on the challenging project of rigorous candor and identifying blind spots that can prevent the deepening of treatment.

While most of our patients live or work in Lower Manhattan, patients come to Tribeca Therapy from all over NYC from a wide range of backgrounds and industries. Our patients are motivated and want and have choices for where they seek therapy, which leads them to demand high quality and dedication from us.

Because we wear our progressive politics on our sleeves, we attract patients who share those values and who are themselves representative of marginalized identities. They know they will not just be safe and welcomed at Tribeca Therapy, but they will receive therapy from a team with the necessary skills to help people of color, queer people, and trans and gender-nonconforming people build their emotional lives. 

Our practice compensates therapists based on a fee-for-service model with compensation at or above the highest rates in New York City. Additionally we provide second-to-none supervision, including group supervision and individual supervision for the first year with the practice. Opportunities for advancement and increase compensation are abundant. Because of this, as well as our other core values, Tribeca Therapy is often a long-term home, with our most senior therapists having more than 10 years of tenure with Tribeca Therapy.

We review all applications carefully and invite only those with a strong alignment to proceed to the next step of an interview process. Regrettably, we often find ourselves declining to proceed with otherwise excellent applicants who aren't right for our practice.

We make use of group and individual interviews to learn about a candidate’s capacity for self-reflection and willingness to be impacted by the process itself. Prospective therapists will be asked to reflect on the values and assumptions they bring to therapy, with aspects of the process intentionally replicating the experience of supervision that is so central to our practice.

Unlike in some interview processes, learning about your specific experience, motivation to become or continue practicing therapy; as well as more about our practice comes after these first few steps are complete.

Even among already experienced therapists, a good fit will be someone who believes they still have a tremendous amount to learn. Humility is prized over mastery.