Therapy Secrets: How Does Your Therapist Feel About You?
Therapy and the Secret Life of Therapists Every day in therapy offices, therapists are bombarded with feelings from their patients: love, hate, rage, yearning, despair. Session after session, people in therapy share their secrets, dreams, and fantasies; they confess disappointments, expose painful memories, unearth fears, ambitions, and passions; all while their therapist sits and listens. […]
Psychotherapy & Yoga: What Do They Have In Common?
Understanding Yoga Here’s a secret that none of my patients know: in the past, I sat through sessions with an ice-pack or heating pad strapped to my lower back, discreetly tucked under my suit jacket. A back injury had made it difficult for me to sit for any length of time. As a psychotherapist, I […]
Taking the Ouch Out of the Couch
Why lay on a couch in therapy? Isn’t talking face-to-face more natural? In the beginning, lying on the couch does feel odd; there’s nothing natural about it. Yet it serves a very important function: it gives you greater access to your internal life. For example, when you isolate certain senses, other senses become amplified. The […]
Lower Manhattan Community Middle School
March 21, 2012 Dear Sean, On behalf of LMC, I would like to thank you for visiting our PTA. The parents left raving about the session. It was such a great experience listening to other parents concerns and hearing your realistic advice. I completely understand why teens would be comfortable talking to you! We would […]
Top Ten Parenting Mistakes
Parenting is a doozy of an emotional workout, chock-full of highs and lows, joys and despairs. One moment you’re elated, and the next you’re dejected or frustrated. One morning, you wake up feeling inexplicably euphoric, only to go to bed that evening feeling utterly heartbroken. Children add rocket fuel to your emotional life; your […]
East Side Community High School
March 5, 2012 Dear Sean, I want to thank you for taking the time to come to our Parent Expo and speaking to our parents. The parents who attended were singing your praises. You were a huge hit. I know a few plan to reach out to you directly for additional guidance, including me. : ) Our […]
The Group Therapy Contract
An introduction to the group therapy contract When it comes to establishing more intimate and enduring relationships, individual therapy can help you understand your history and influences, however, is that enough to open new pathways to relationships? What if you still find yourself cycling through the same old relationship problems, making the same mistakes over […]