Jean Fitzpatrick NY Individual and Couples Therapy

07/18/2022

Advice for partners on how to start off on the right foot when you’re meeting the parents! You can go into this feeling confident. Thanks so much for featuring me BRIDES!

Meeting your partner's parents for the first time? Here are tips for making the meeting as fun and smooth as possible, straight from an expert

07/18/2022

Many thanks to Brides for featuring my advice on how to start off on the right foot as you’re meeting your boyfriend or fiancé’s parents! Full story at the link in my bio.

09/11/2021

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06/04/2021

A Poem for These Days

When all of this is done,
there will be lighter rooms
and heavier hearts,
the table set, out of habit,
for those who will no longer come,
slowly but surely,
a day will appear,
ordinary
school buses will ply,
a gaggle of children spilling out,
lovers sit conspicuously close
upon a park bench,
office goers rush about,
as they do,
an assumed seriousness,
for anyone who might be looking,
and crowds throng,
restaurants, bars, the cinema,
as before,
as before the time
we no longer speak of
somewhere a doctor
will close his clinic at five
and get in a round of golf
before dinner,
a funeral service will have a slow day,
a wily entrepreneur will wonder
how to put his empty ambulances to use,
a nurse will quietly knit at work
under her desk
and when we meet those whom we love,
we will linger,
a little bit longer,
even laugh,
at jokes that aren’t very funny,
praise indifferent food,
and forget perhaps,
old slights that now are
from before the time,
quietly grateful for touch
sometimes, unexpectedly
we will meet another’s eyes
only for a moment; and know,
in our shared silence,
we lived through that time
It would have taken away much,
our own,
strangers, a part of ourselves,
who we were
from before the time,
but we will know,
we are here now, and for that day,
it will be enough.

— Nandini Sen Mehra
(An Indian origin poet based in Singapore)

04/20/2021

Very glad to have had the chance to help and speak up for the value of couples therapy before you’re in crisis in this excellent article by in The New York Times. Link in bio.

04/14/2021

Think couples therapy is only for relationships In trouble? Excited to be quoted in this NY Times article by Brianna Holt on how couples are discovering that counseling can be a way to sustain a relationship, deepen their connection, and learn communication skills: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/style/couples-therapy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Therapy doesn’t always mean a relationship is at its breaking point. Many couples are seeking to address difficult issues before conflict arises.

04/14/2021

Being in couples therapy does not have to mean your relationship is “on the rocks!” It’s a safe space to deepen your connection and learn communication skills that will be useful when you do run into conflict. Thankful to be quoted here in . Link in bio.

10/14/2020

Talked to the new Babe site launched by the elegant Hatch collection. https://twitter.com/hatchcollection/status/1316055098578137088?s=21

“Hubs not bonding with babe? First off: it’s normal. We invited relationship therapist + New York-based psychotherapist Jean Fitzpatrick () to help with this very real, very normal topic. https://t.co/MIX8bJf8eG”

09/30/2020

As I need to say all too often these days, if you grew up in a household with a mentally ill parent and/or with destructive conflict, last night’s may have been especially triggering or upsetting. As an adult tho you have power.

09/19/2020

Devastating news but was a fighter who made a tremendous difference in the status of women during my lifetime. So thankful, and determined to keep working toward change and integrity in these hard times. Sometimes on insta, mental health comes across as an experience of total serenity. Wrong. Learning to accept and regulate our feelings is necessary but not sufficient. Contributing our energies and talents to help create a better life for those we love, for our community, and for the wider world: that’s the meaning and purpose that keeps us going for a lifetime.

08/16/2020

07/31/2020

Stressed out by lockdown homeschooling, work from home, and chore wars with your partner? I was interviewed by ‘s site on how to create the changes you want and stress less. Be sure you’re not making some basic mistakes that shut down communication, like an ongoing pattern of criticism instead of a regular sitdown to share feedback! A few words too on how all screen time is not alike.

Link in bio. Thank you Stephanie Asymkos!

07/27/2020

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07/11/2020

Excited to be quoted in The New York Times on how couples can get through emerging from lockdown together. It’s all about getting past the desire to win and focusing on respectful listening. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/at-home/couples-coronavirus-pandemic.html Thanks to .nierenberg for including me in this super helpful piece.

06/15/2020

Finding yourself is something we keep doing all our lives. It’s the secret to renewed vitality and joy, and it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Jump in!

06/07/2020

From my breakfast table to yours, the beauty that replenishes...”Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

05/10/2020

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms and mamas, and to all who mother! Had a lovely time this weekend arranging gorgeous flowers with as part of their amazing online program.