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8 Strategies for Overcoming Loneliness in the New Year
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by loneliness this winter, know that you won’t feel this way forever. Here are some things you can try.
Celebrating Sobriety: Navigating a Sober Holiday Season
The holidays can be a lonely time for people navigating sobriety. Here are some suggestions for how to approach sobriety this holiday season.
Navigating Family Conflict During Holiday Gatherings
For many families the holidays are a time of stress and family conflict. If that’s the case for yours, here’s how you can prepare.
7 Tips to Cope with Seasonal Affective Disorder This Winter in NYC
Understanding what SAD is, what symptoms to look for, and how you can manage its effects, can help you navigate your life, no matter what season you’re in.
5 Things You Should Know About Conflict in Relationships
Learning more about conflict in relationships can help you have more compassion for yourself and your partner when you find yourselves in an argument.
What to Ask Your Partner Before Getting Married
Getting married is a decision that requires thoughtful consideration from various angles, including mental health, finances, and the state of your relationship. Explore key questions to ask your partner(s) before getting married.
How to Decide if You Should Go to Therapy
If you're considering therapy but aren’t sure if it’s the right time, here are a few signs it might be beneficial and what you can expect from starting the process.
Key Benefits of Individual Therapy
Individual therapy is more than just a place to talk about your feelings—it’s an opportunity for self-growth, healing, and change.
Taking Care of Yourself When You Have Brain Fog
Anyone may experience brain fog from time to time, but for those who also live with chronic illnesses or chronic pain, brain fog may be a regular experience, which can negatively influence the state of your mental health. Managing brain fog is frustrating and can make you feel lazy, defeated, and further exhausted, especially if you’re trying to manage it without support.
Do You Need Stronger Boundaries, or Distress Tolerance?
Setting boundaries to avoid discomfort is all too easy to do, especially if you’re new to setting boundaries. When you establish a boundary, it’s with the goal of making something tolerable (or enjoyable) long term. Another way we can work on that? Distress tolerance skills!
Setting Boundaries with Your Family: A Compassionate Guide
Boundaries are essential to healthy relationships, especially with family. Here’s how you can communicate your boundaries effectively and compassionately.
What Happens in Couples Therapy?
Feeling apprehensive at the unknown can prevent us from going for a lot of things in life–but our relationships are important to us, so taking the risk here can be massively rewarding. But knowing this doesn’t often make it any less intimidating to jump into a process you know little about! If the fear of the unknown is holding you back from starting couples counseling, take some time to read through these points for a better idea of what goes on in couples therapy.
Mind-Reading, Should Statements & Emotional Reasoning: 3 More Cognitive Distortions
Negative thinking traps (or cognitive distortions) are errors, or negative patterns in our thinking processes. When trapped, our thought processes tend to overlook context, leave information out, or assign motivations with no evidence behind them. Today we’re going to explore three more: Mind-reading, Should statements, and Emotional reasoning.
5 Common Misconceptions About Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Despite its prevalence, there’s a lot of misinformation about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, making it tough to understand. These are some of the most common misconceptions about OCD that our NYC therapists hear about.
Chronic or Acute Stress: What Are You Feeling?
Understanding this difference between chronic and acute stress can help you make the distinction for yourself when you’re experiencing intense periods of stress. Is it situational, caused by something coming up in your life, or does it never seem to go away?
6 Ways to Create Intention Within Your Relationships
Learning skills to strengthen different types of relationships and the safety and comfort you feel within them is key to making sure you don’t find yourself relying on just one person or relationship. Here are 6 resources to help you create intention within your relationships.
5 Tips for Coping with Friend Conflict
Conflict with a friend can feel totally overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to mean the end of your friendship. Here’s how to approach it.
How Do I Know It's Time for Couples Therapy?
Just as with our individual therapy, couples counseling services will be specific to you and your relationship. There is no magic formula for a perfect relationship—we’re all unique with unique wants and needs–which means the goal of couples therapy isn’t to make your relationship perfect, but to help you discover what the needs of your relationship are, and how you can communicate them effectively and get them met within your relationship.
Is Group Therapy Right for You?
Group therapy functions as a community. Your place there doesn’t have to be earned–you’re just welcomed, and encouraged to share what you’re thinking. This community offers you a space to listen to and connect with others who see you and understand you in a way that you may not be seen or understood in other areas of your life. Group therapy is meant to give you a chance to listen to others who know what it is you’re going through, and can meet you where you are.
5 Essential Money Questions Every Couple Should Discuss: A Therapist's Guide
Talking about money isn’t always easy, but it’s important to discuss when you’re in a relationship. Get on the same page with these 5 money questions.