COVID-19 Drug and Alcohol Abuse
By: Rachel Parodneck, LCSW You may be experiencing an increase in stress during this pandemic. Fear and anxiety can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions. These emotions can lead to increased alcohol and substance use. If you feel your drug and
DBT Skills Series Part 2: STOP Skill
By: Emily Morris, MSWI In part two in this four-part DBT skills series, we are talking about STOP, a distress tolerance DBT skill. STOP is an acronym that stands for Stop, Take a step back, Observe, and Proceed mindfully. We will
Eating Disorder Awareness Week Resource Guide
By Rachel Parodneck, LCSW In the US, eating disorders affect over 30 million people. Eating disorders are serious but treatable mental and physical illnesses that can affect people of all genders, ages, races, religions, ethnicities, sexual orientations, body shapes, and weights.
6 Self-Care Strategies for Handling COVID Vaccine Envy
By: Rachel Parodneck, LMSW It’s a miracle! The COVID vaccine was finally, FINALLY created and is now being distributed. This is great news, right? Hold on a minute. It’s only available to a select few groups of people. That’s right, it’s
DBT Skills Series Part 1: Cope Ahead
By: Emily Morris, MSWI We all regularly find ourselves in stressful, emotionally-intense situations, and it can be extremely overwhelming to cope during these times of high emotional intensity. In particularly difficult times, it is common for us to resort to coping
Group Therapy: Why You Should Give It a Shot
By Rachel Parodneck, LMSW “People need people - for initial and continued survival, for socialization, for the pursuit of satisfaction. No one - not the dying, not the outcast, not the mighty - transcends the need for human contact.” ― Irvin D.
Navigating Feelings of Social Isolation This Winter
By: Emily Morris, MSWI Many people are understandably worried about what the next several months will look like, as COVID-19 cases are rising and temperatures are dropping. Colder weather and less daylight hours can result in heightened feelings of sadness, depression,
How to cope with the 2020 holiday season
By Rachel Parodneck, LMSW Season’s greetings! It’s supposedly the most wonderful time of the year. However, this time of year can often be fraught with anxiety and stress. Many people who are not close with their families may feel pressure to
Feeling the Winter Blues? It Could Be Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
By Rachel Parodneck, LMSW 2020 has been a year that has brought immeasurable trauma for many people. Between the COVID-19 pandemic, the significant racism in this country that has led to the necessity of the BLM movement, sky-high unemployment rates, a
How To Cope with Election Anxiety
By Rachel Parodneck, LMSW As the election looms imminently closer, it seems New Yorkers are all holding our collective breaths and wracked with anxiety. Session after session, clients come in fearing the results of the election. Whether red or blue, it
