NYC Child Therapy Blog

What Are the Symptoms of Depression in Teens? Signs your child might be more than moody. Via Child Mind Institute: Since adolescents are often moody, it can be difficult to…

How To Cultivate Positive Thoughts in Negative How To Cultivate Positive Thoughts in Negative Situations. You know what it’s like to have a splinter in your finger: No matter how…

STRESS: Do you notice a painful knot in your neck muscles after a week or stress? When you hear a song that reminds you of a difficult breakup, do your…

Boost Resilience in Kids Parenting is hard work. Every parent or guardian hopes that childhood and adolescence will be a carefree time in their kids lives. Unfortunately, this isn’t the…

Childhood Experiences and PTSD PTSD and multiple adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can change the body, brain and nervous system. Ultimately, it can shift your entire life. You may, in fact,…

Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a childhood disorder that includes negative, defiant, disobedient and often hostile behavior. Primarily, these behaviors target adults and authority figures. In order to receive this diagnosis,…

Help Your Child Overcome Anger Anger can be an emotion that is difficult for even some adults to manage in healthy ways. Therefore, it is reasonable that many children have…

When it comes to getting what we want or simply living a more fulfilling life it starts with the way we think. Our thinking influences our attitude, decision making, motivation,…

The pervasive blue light glow of electronic devices is an impediment to a good night’s sleep. That’s particularly noticeable now, when families are adjusting to early wake-up times for school.…

As fabulous as our brains are, they have their blind spots to happiness. Our brains are wired to chunk data and make things routine so we can handle more complex…