Therapy Exercises

Imagine being asked to throw a pack of gum out of the window of your apartment. You live in the heart of Astoria, a home filled with busy bees and go getters galore. Now imagine that same pack of gum landing on a random person. Chances are, that person is…

On Clay Cockrell, work is like going for a stroll. The licenced clinical social worker in Manhattan does exercise-assisted psychotherapy, usually in Central Park and Battery Park, rather than in a conventional office environment. According to him, walking while discussing concerns is very similar to traditional psychotherapy. …

Power of Patterns: How Creativity Transforms Can the power of art change your life? Can art change the world? It’s a question that many have asked and answered. Art, in its many forms, can reveal the power that we can acquire through the engagement and understanding of the stories behind art. For this reason, just filling…

Early Recovery Strategies I’ve been struggling to leave the house for the last few years, between COVID and a nervous breakdown I had right before that when I was having visions of the end of the world. In the last year, I lost my best mental health worker, my visiting…

I wanted to share with you a phenomenon and frankly unexpected alternative therapy which involves a room fan - any room fan. In order to prevent this being dismissed outright as nonsense - I will compare it with the power of scent-based therapies. The simple smell of something can evoke…

A holler to any therapists out there, who like me, close sessions off with a nice list of activities that could be carried over from the therapeutic environment into the home. This, of course, is done with the best intentions. I just so desperately want to make sure that the…