Individual therapy is more than just a place to talk about your feelings—it’s an opportunity for self-growth, healing, and change. 

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.

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!

Boundaries are essential to healthy relationships, especially with family. Here’s how you can communicate your boundaries effectively and compassionately.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We love that mental health care is becoming more common and more openly discussed in our current culture. But, while the benefits of trying therapy are becoming more and more well known, there’s little information out there on the nitty gritty details of the process–which can make an intimidating process seem even more daunting.To help, we put together this toolkit to help walk you through the beginning steps of the therapeutic process, and the obstacles it can present.

Everyone experiences negative thinking traps from time to time. They’re very often stemming from raw and true emotional experiences we’ve had, which is what fills in the context or information we’re missing at the time. And because experiencing these negative thinking traps is such a common experience, we also know that these cognitive patterns can be unpacked and reframed.

Choosing a therapist that is right for you can be a stressful process. Here are some things to consider when choosing a therapist.

While moving in together is exciting, it can open up new issues in your relationship as you both learn to adjust. Here are five types of questions to ask your partner before moving in together.

The start of a new year is a time when lots of people reconsider their habits and their daily routine. But changing habits can be a lot trickier than it sounds, because doing so essentially requires rewiring your brain. Here are some tips to help.

While high and low functioning are terms we commonly encounter in the mental health care industry, we think the unintentional meanings attached to them are more harmful than the terms are useful.

How can you tell when your gut is trying to tell you something if you’re anxiety is constantly tricking your gut? Telling the difference between anxiety and intuition is tricky, and it takes a lot of practice and even more patience with yourself. You might not get it right every time, but that’s okay.