Happiness

Mental Health & Wellbeing
Written By Erica Rosenthal, Ph.D.

Ahh, the warm feeling of contentment!

The cozy hug of satisfaction, joy, and pleasure is a treasured place. Who doesn’t love that?! ⁠

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We can put a lot of pressure on ourselves to be happy. Like all emotions, happiness is a state - which means it’s transient and changes. So, we can’t be happy ALL the time, despite whatever new fad out there claims. It’s healthy to experience a range of emotions!⁠
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Lots of people feel the goal of therapy is “to be happy.” While that can be a way to look at it, a more accurate goal is to feel balanced. It's important to remember that happiness has lots of facets unique to each person and isn’t just a steady state of mind that we get to. Therapy can help you find what gets in the way of feeling happy or the judgments and ideas we hold about happiness.⁠

If your interested in exploring your feelings, contact us here and we can set you up with one of our therapists.

Erica Rosenthal, Ph.D.

I earned my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the New School for Social Research. My doctoral research focused on limit-setting in toddlerhood and its relationship with maternal representations of attachment. In recognition of this work, I was awarded the Alfred J. Marrow Award in Psychology from the New School for Social Research. During my clinical training, I worked at Montefiore Medical Center, The New School Counseling Center, Mt. Sinai Beth Israel, Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s, South Beach Psychiatric Center, and the New School Psychotherapy Program.

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