What sort of World Trade Center therapy does this re-emerging area need?
The question of what sort of World Trade Center therapy is most suited to the needs of WTC residents and employees as embedded in a history of both trauma and immense change. As the rebuilt World Trade Center shifts from construction site to day-time home for thousands of New Yorkers, and the Fulton Transit hub opens after a multi-year construction project designed to smooth the commute for thousands of Downtown Manhattan residents and workers there has been tremendous buzz about a revitalized, reinvigorated Lower Manhattan. Tribeca Therapy has been 4 short blocks from the World Trade Center for years and provided World Trade Center therapy that is as dynamic as this changing, growing neighborhood.
The buzz is bittersweet, of course--all of this revitalization downtown came about as a direct result of the terrible tragedy of the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001. As a therapist, the goings-on at the World Trade Center and Downtown Manhattan more broadly are of particular interest to us in terms of the emotional and therapeutic and needs of those who live and work near the World Trade Center. Many patients in our practice work at or near the World Trade Center and have offices overlooking some aspect of the Downtown the rebuilding. Others witnessed first hand the events of September 11, 2001 from their homes or offices. As workers repopulated the skyscrapers of the new World Trade Center we are often asked, as therapists in the area, about the needs of those workers and residents.
Those needs are, of course, the same as those of most New Yorkers. There are the traditional issues of therapy for depression and anxiety, therapy for stress, issues related to parenting and growing families, and concerns about relationships that take the form of individual therapy or couples therapy.
While not unique among issues addressed in therapy in NYC, those who've been in Downtown Manhattan for some time have a particular relationship with change: the loss and trauma of September 11, 2001; the changing demographics related to a changing financial climate; rebuilding and relocation. It's difficult to walk within a few blocks of the World Trade Center without being reminded that change is in fact the constant.
At Tribeca Therapy we offer creative, non-diagnostic therapy for depression, anxiety treatment and help for PTSD and issues related to trauma, but also help with issues related to career, provide therapy for dating, couples therapy and help with an array of life transitions.
