Tribeca Therapy Finds Our Second Home In Park Slope
Tribeca Therapy is excited to announce the launch of our new Brooklyn office in Park Slope. In early 2020, Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist began offering therapy sessions for the first time in Brooklyn from an office in his Park Slope home in what we hoped would be the beginning of a second office for Tribeca Therapy. Little did any of us know that by mid-March with the COVID-19 quarantine that all of his sessions would be happening from that office (just not the way we intended).
Park Slope has been Matt’s residence since he moved there after years in Tribeca. Starting a family and buying a place in the neighborhood in 2013, Park Slope joined Tribeca as the two homes Matt has had in NYC. What drew Matt to Park Slope is what drew many–good schools, a close community, diversity–and it’s also what draws Tribeca Therapy to open its second home in the neighborhood.
Expanding To Brooklyn Allows Us To Provide Therapy To The People We Work With Well
While this location itself is new, we’ve served hundreds of patients from Brooklyn, including Park Slope, during our twelve years that we’ve been practicing in Lower Manhattan. Because of our experience as an established group practice with therapists who have been with us for nine years and counting, we understand the needs of New Yorkers.
In particular, an office in Brooklyn provides us with an opportunity to work closely with the people we work with well: couples and families, including LGBTQ+, interracial, interreligious, multicultural, blended, and non-traditional couples and families, kids and teens (with a specialization in working with kids and teens who are transgender, gender-nonconforming, or gender questioning), and artists and artisans.
Park Slope Needs The Non-Diagnostic, Creative Therapy We Do
In 2009, our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist opened Tribeca Therapy in Tribeca after living in the neighborhood for years. More than just a convenient location, he chose Tribeca because our style of therapy seemed to resonate with the surrounding creative community of Lower Manhattan.
Similarly, we believe that Park Slope needs the sort of therapy we do. We are a leader in non-diagnostic, creative therapy with an orientation to understanding systems: the system of relationships (including love and friendship), the system of families, and the system of communities. This sets us apart from more conventional approaches that focus exclusively on the application of a cookie-cutter model of treatment with a rigid process of assessment, diagnosis, and a predetermined treatment plan.
A Group Practice Offers Significant Benefits To Our Patients’ Therapy
Though it may not be readily apparent, there’s meaningful value for patients in seeking therapy with a group practice. Group means we have peer support, as well as tons of training and supervision. When working with a new patient, we’re well positioned to find someone on our team who is just the right fit.
There are also opportunities for collaboration. When necessary, we use a team approach, which is especially helpful with kids and teens with a sibling or parent who would benefit from their own therapist. In these cases, we can bring in a parenting expert or family therapist to support the teen or child’s individual work. Likewise, we can also offer couples a referral for individual therapy from a close colleague when individual treatment is warranted.
Park Slope’s Progressive Values Are Our Values
Park Slope has long been a neighborhood where individuals, couples, and families can feel comfortable being who they are. Beyond the community itself, Park Slope is surrounded by neighborhoods convenient to our office that reflect the history and diversity of Brooklyn: Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Midwood, Flatbush, Windsor Terrace, and Kensington.
Park Slope’s progressive values are our values. Our work is overtly political, anti-racist, and trans- and queer-friendly. We believe that simply voicing a commitment to inclusion and being welcoming to diverse individuals, couples, and families is not enough. Rather, we strive to build fluency and expertise in understanding the emotional needs and considerations that may be necessary to provide excellent therapy. This includes recognizing the relationship between culture and mental health, in particular the ways that oppression and an experience of unsafety in the world affect mental health.
Experienced Couples Therapists For What Brooklyn Couples Need
Couples therapy is one of our core offerings at Tribeca Therapy. As specialists in couples and family therapy, our practice has offered therapy to hundreds of couples, including interracial couples, same-sex and queer couples, non-traditional couples, and couples in polyamorous or open relationships. We’ve helped these couples with issues related to communication and arguing, infidelity, making tough decisions, family planning, money conflicts, dealing with each others’ families, and sex and sexuality.
We are also fluent in guiding couples through respectful divorce (often called conscious uncoupling) and supporting families with children through these experiences, including through co-parenting counseling.
We’re Not Only Confident Discussing Sex And Sexuality: We’re Sex-Positive And Kink-Positive
While to some it may feel like a given, not all therapists are fluent in providing therapy on matters related to sex and sexuality. At Tribeca Therapy, we’re not merely confident talking about sex and sexuality with expertise. We feel that sex is often an under-explored aspect of mental health and mental wellbeing, and should, therefore, be not just welcomed but also celebrated.
We understand sex can look all kinds of ways, from monogamous and conventional to any of the ways that healthy, consensual, fun sex may look. We embrace the various forms of queer sex, as well as help patients explore the role of kink in their relationships. We also understand sex work as work.
Everyone, of course, is free to consider whether sex and sexuality have a place in their therapy, as well as determine the various ways that sex might look in their lives. This can include a choice to abstain from sex altogether.
We Are Experienced In–And Respect–The Ways That Brooklyn Teens Talk About Gender, Sex and Sexuality, And Their World
We’re skilled and confident in working with teens, including talking about gender, sexual identity, and sexual choices. Gender is a deeply relevant issue for teens, not just for those who are trans, gender-nonconforming, non-binary, or questioning their gender identity in this most specific sense. Just as many teens are moving away from traditional binaries of gay or straight (and even away from bi), teens see and discuss gender in ways that are more complex than many adults (even therapists) realize. We’re skilled at working outside of these binaries.
We work with teens, whatever their presentation, in ways that deeply respect their views of the world. While sex and gender are often a part of this formulation, we understand that the world of teens in NYC includes school and social pressures, as well as sex and dating (or not having sex and not dating). However, teens are also often engaged in a political reality. They are concerned about school segregation and unequal access to educational resources, over-policing in communities of color, racism, school violence, and climate change.
We also understand the social worlds of video games and social media. We recognize that the very language of teens’ lives is different from that of adults. We don’t pretend to speak all the nuances of that language, but respect its validity as a mode of communication and (at times) self-expression. We neither fear it nor dismiss its hazards.
Tribeca Maternity Addresses Park Slope’s Needs Related To Family Planning, Infertility, Pregnancy, Childbirth, And Early Parenting
Located nearby some of the busiest maternity wards in the city, a big focus for our new Park Slope office is to extend our Tribeca Maternity services to Brooklyn individuals, couples, and families. A branch of our practice founded on the belief that women and their families’ needs often go underserved during maternity (read more about our use of maternity and other language here), Tribeca Maternity provides specialized attention and dedicated focus to the emotional experiences related to family planning, issues with fertility, adoption, surrogacy, miscarriage, pregnancy, childbirth (including traumatic birth experiences), postpartum depression and anxiety, and issues related to parenting newborns and toddlers.
We also understand trans, gender-nonconforming, and non-binary people are parents too, as well as cis men. We aim to provide therapy to a neighborhood that has attracted LGBTQ+ and non-traditional families with full recognition that traditional binary gender roles, heteronormativity, and other culturally imposed norms can be imposed on bodies, relationships, and families like never before during maternity.
We believe maternity is a time of disruption and transition that offers an opportunity for choice, growth, and change. Rather than simply restricting our help to the perinatal or postpartum period, limiting the help individuals, couples, and families receive, our goal is to understand the rest of their lives, relationships, and histories, as well as how these factors continue to affect their emotional lives.