Adult & Couples Therapy, Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health, Parenting & Family Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Distress Tolerance Skills: TIPP Skills
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) focuses on teaching patients and families several strategies to help tolerate painful emotions and to manage difficult situations in the best way possible. We all face…
Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health
What are the most common risk factors of anxiety disorders in children?
Anxiety is a natural, normal and harmless emotion. Anxiety becomes problematic when it begins to prevent or interfere with a child’s ability to engage in and enjoy daily activities. Anxiety…
Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health
Can Children Have PTSD?
The short and simple answer to this question is “yes,” but when assessing PTSD in children it is important to understand more about it, as its signs and symptoms in…
Adult & Couples Therapy, Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health
What is the difference between DBT & CBT Therapies?
Sifting through the alphabet soup of psychotherapy treatments can often be bewildering and overwhelming. The rise of evidence-based psychotherapies (i.e., treatments that have strong research support) has had a tremendous…
Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health, Parenting & Family Therapy
What Are The Top 10 Signs of Depression in Children and Teens
Does your child say, “I’m okay” to you even though you know they really are not? How can you determine if your child is experiencing a normal amount of sadness…
Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health
Child Social Anxiety Therapy in Long Island City, NY, and New York, NY
Worried about your child’s feelings around others? Here are some clues: Do they worry a lot about others thinking bad things about them? Do they often say no to social…
Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health, Parenting & Family Therapy
How to Talk to Your Children About Terrorism
With the increased number of terror attacks that we are hearing about in the news, something that had once been a much rarer occurrence may feel like it is happening…
Adult & Couples Therapy, Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health
Distress Tolerance Skills In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy originally developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan to treat chronically suicidal adults diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. Although DBT was developed for the…
Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health, Parenting & Family Therapy
The Usefulness of PCIT in Times of Family Stress
Families can encounter a variety of stressors – some of which do not tend to significantly affect their functioning, while there are others that do. The latter type of stressors…
Child & Adolescent Therapy, Mental Health, Parenting & Family Therapy
Talking to Your Teenager About Healthy and Abusive Relationships
An expected part of adolescence is developing and engaging in romantic relationships. An exciting and fun time yet stressful, too. Teens are navigating their different feelings, new situations and experiences…