Signs It Might Be Time to Talk to a Therapist Postpartum
Many people assume that needing therapy after having a baby means constant tears, overwhelming sadness, or feeling like everything is falling apart. In reality, postpartum struggles are often much quieter.
Is a DBT Group Right for You? What to Expect and Who It Helps
If you’ve been curious about joining a DBT Skills group, you’re not alone. Over the last decade, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has become one of the most sought-after evidence-based treatments for people who want practical tools to manage emotions, improve relationships, and build a more grounded daily life.
In this post, we’ll explore what DBT groups are, who they help, and how to know if joining one might be a meaningful next step for you.
When Everything Feels Too Loud: Overstimulation in Parents of Young Children
Overstimulation isn’t just about sound or clutter. It’s when your body and mind hit their capacity for input, no matter how much you love the people around you. Learn more about the signs and what you can to do to address it.
Postpartum OCD: Understanding and Managing Intrusive Thoughts After Birth
Postpartum OCD Understanding and Managing Intrusive Thoughts after Birth
Most new parents expect some degree of exhaustion, feeding challenges, and emotional adjustment after bringing a baby home. What many don’t expect are sudden, unwanted thoughts or mental images, often about something bad happening to their baby.
How to Know When It’s Time for Couples Therapy
You don’t need to be on the verge of breaking up to go to couples therapy. In fact, the earlier you go, the easier it is to get back on track. But how do you know when it’s time?
Let’s be honest—most of us don’t wake up one day and say, “You know what would really help us right now? A stranger with a doctoral degree listening to our fights.” We usually wait. We tell ourselves it’s just a rough patch. We hang out with Google at 1 am, asking things like "how to stop arguing about mental load” or “why doesn’t my partner initiate sex anymore?”
The Myth of the Together Person (and Why Your Lists Aren’t Helping)
You look like you’re doing fine.
You’ve got a system—sort of. You keep things moving, mostly. But behind the scenes?
You stare at your inbox like it’s a haunted house.
Your to-do list isn’t a list. It’s a self-replicating anxiety machine.
You avoid opening mail because one envelope might break you. And when you finally sit down to start? Suddenly it feels urgent to alphabetize your spices like your future depends on placing paprika in its perfect alphabetical spot.
Why Am I So Hard on Myself?
Why Am I So Hard on Myself?
Your inner critic isn’t the enemy. It’s a protective voice that learned its job long ago. With curiosity, reflection, and the support of a therapist— especially one trained in psychodynamic therapy— that voice can loosen its grip.
Why Am I Struggling to Get Things Done? Understanding Executive Functioning and How Coaching Can Help
Have you ever looked at your to-do list and felt like your brain just short-circuited? You know what needs to get done—but somehow, the day slips away, and the list remains untouched. Maybe it’s missed deadlines, running late (again), or realizing you’ve been so locked in on one task that suddenly it’s three hours later and everything else has fallen by the wayside. Or maybe it’s the opposite: just thinking about your to-do list gives you a pit in your stomach, and you don’t even know where to start. That constant, gnawing feeling of falling behind—no matter how hard you try—is exhausting.
Addressing the Mental Health Impact of a NICU Stay: Coping with Stress and Trauma
A stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can be an incredibly overwhelming and stressful experience for parents. Whether it’s due to a preterm birth, complications during delivery, or health issues arising shortly after birth, having a newborn in the NICU can affect both the baby and the parents—emotionally, mentally, and physically.
Strategies for Responding to Imposter Stress
Have you ever felt self-doubt, fraudulent, or wondered if you are as competent or qualified as others perceive you to be? Believe it or not, these feelings are quite common, especially among high achieving people who have a hard time believing in their competence. These feelings and thoughts often arise when we begin something new, step into a new role, and enter environments that invalidate aspects of our identity. Here are some practical suggestions for how to respond to imposter stress.
Understanding Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD, C-PTSD, Complex-PTSD) refers to the impact of prolonged, unavoidable, relational trauma. Such repeated trauma tends to negatively impact the survivor’s sense of safety, self-esteem, trust in self, and trust in others.
NYC as Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety
One of the most frequent reasons people seek out therapy is to address their anxiety. Anxiety can be a debilitating condition in which it feels like your anxiety runs your life. Symptoms of anxiety include racing negative thoughts, a tightening of the chest, rapid heartbeat, difficulty staying present, lightheadedness, queasiness or stomach pain, and restlessness. One of the more common forms of anxiety is social anxiety, which is when someone has outsized, persistent fears about being exposed to possible scrutiny.
Unseen Struggles: Shedding Light on Postpartum PTSD
Embarking on the journey of pregnancy and childbirth is often envisioned and portrayed as a joyous and exhilarating time. However, for some birthing individuals, the postpartum period can bring unexpected challenges that go beyond the more commonly discussed topics of postpartum depression and anxiety.
Panic Attacks: Your Emotional Fire Alarm
Roughly one in ten adults will have at least one panic, or ‘anxiety’ attack every year. Fortunately, panic attacks aren’t random. In fact, panic attacks are very predictable because they are triggered by internal or external cues of perceived threats.
I think I have PTSD: Now What?
When struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), life can feel scary and limiting. Intrusive symptoms of PTSD can look like being haunted by unwanted memories of the traumatic event, having intense physical sensations like heart palpitations or sweating, experiencing strong emotions of fear, anger, or shame when reminded of the trauma, and enduring flashbacks of the event. These intrusive symptoms indicate that something about the event still needs to be processed. However, these symptoms are so distressing and confusing that many people develop beliefs such as, “I’m going crazy,” and “I can’t handle this,” and start avoiding reminders of the trauma that bring up these symptoms.
Surviving Toddler Tantrums
Your child asks for water. You give your child some water. And suddenly the screaming starts…What is going on? The water could have the wrong temperature, could be in the wrong cup, your child may not like the way you handed them the water – who knows. The one thing that is clear is that your child is about to have a tantrum. Read on to learn what tantrums are, why they happen, how to deal with them, and better yet, how to prevent them.
Tips for Stress Management
Are you looking for help to manage your stress? Here are steps you can take to feel more calm and in control.
Anxious about the Election? You’re not Alone.
Whatever the outcome of this presidential election is, many Americans feel like they will come out of it with both a newly elected president, and a new anxiety disorder. So many of our clients here at Therapists of New York are struggling to manage the intense emotions arising from what feels to many like a very high-stakes election. This sense of panic, dread and worry many are experiencing is a bi-partisan experience. NPR news reports that the majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents are all reporting high levels of stress related to the upcoming election.
Reclaiming the Weekend: Setting Work Boundaries in the COVID-19 Era
It isn’t news to anybody that the COVID-19 pandemic has completely upended the ways that many of us are doing our jobs, with millions of people working from home for the first time ever. Before the pandemic, even the most dedicated workaholic had one key way to enforce the boundary between their work and home life: By leaving the office. Without a commute and physical separation from the office, many have felt the boundary between work and home dissolve, finding themselves overstressed, hunched over their computer at odd hours, and answering slacks and emails into the dead of night.
Healthy Assertiveness in a Global Pandemic
Managing boundaries is challenging in the best of circumstances, but in a pandemic the stakes are higher than ever. One the one hand, we are hungry for contact as we feel isolated and afraid. On the other hand, interacting with others holds real risk to physical safety and health. Right now, the human need for relationships is in direct conflict with the need for safety.
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