Justena Kavanagh, Psychotherapist

09/10/2020

NYC Counseling, a Manhattan-based clinical therapy group, is hiring for the following positions:

1) Part-time clinical director/clinician (approximately 12-15 hours/week)

2) Part-time supervisor/clinician (approximately 15-20 hours/week)

3) Limited permittees (LMSW's, MHC-LP's, MFT-LP)--we are always accepting applications.

**We are seeing patients remotely until the situation in NYC related to COVID-19 improves.**

Please send inquiries to careers@nyccounseling.com

07/22/2020

An upside of CoVID has been increased access to mental health care. I am hopeful the progress will continue longer term. Sign if you are inclined.

There are several reasons why counselors need the ability to get a national license, not one that ends at the state border. 1) Mental health needs are going to skyrocket in the aftermath of the pandemic. Creating an agile, responsive, national force of mental health workers that can respond to menta...

07/26/2019

What Happens to the Family When Addiction Becomes Part of It? Families where addiction is present are oftentimes painful to live in, which is why those who live with addiction may become traumatized to varying degrees by the experience. Broad swings, from one end of the emotional, psychological and

07/25/2019

Yale University is offering its most popular course ever for free on Coursera. I signed up for it — here's what "The Science of Well-Being" is like.

06/06/2019

Most girls and women in the United States are given advice about r**e prevention: never let your drink out of your sight, don’t walk alone at night, don’t wear revealing outfits or high heels, and so on. We live in a society where violence against women—both in action and in speech—is preval...

06/02/2019

Negative emotions and experiences allow us to grow

06/02/2019

May is Mental Health Awareness month. Here's why it's vital to men everywhere.

04/26/2019

How America’s obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap.

03/10/2019

The upper echelon is hoarding money and privilege to a degree not seen in decades. But that doesn’t make them happy at work.

03/10/2019

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people.

03/07/2019

03/07/2019

If you’re looking for an alternative or supplement to A.A., start here.

02/23/2019

Narcissists raise children who suffer from crippling self-doubt.

02/20/2019

We’re told that relationships take work - but let me show you what I think is the missing ingredient.

02/20/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/smarter-living/what-to-say-and-what-not-to-say-to-someone-whos-grieving.html

A little empathy goes a long way, especially when someone is recovering from the loss of a loved one. Unfortunately, even when some of us mean well, we make the situation worse. Here’s how to avoid it.

02/17/2019

Living with the emotionally unstable personality

02/11/2019

The word narcissist comes up so often in today’s society, but what does the term “narcissist” really mean? Narcissism is an actual

02/09/2019

Hard work and discipline help girls outperform boys in class, but that advantage disappears in the work force. Is school the problem?

02/07/2019

Codependents can get targeted by narcissists, and it's hard to leave once hooked

01/26/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/world/europe/prince-william-mental-health.html

The second in line to the British throne said his generation should break with the British tradition to keep quiet about emotional struggles.

01/23/2019

The Fix Q&A with Andrew Tatarsky about alternatives to abstinence-based treatment.

01/21/2019

Most people don't realize that I am struggling.

01/20/2019

Jay-Z on therapy:

BAQUET What was that like, being in therapy? What did you talk about that you had never acknowledged to yourself or talked about?

“I grew so much from the experience. But I think the most important thing I got is that everything is connected. Every emotion is connected and it comes from somewhere. And just being aware of it. Being aware of it in everyday life puts you at such a ... you're at such an advantage”

The music mogul talks with The New York Times’s executive editor at the close of an eventful year.

01/14/2019

Dr. Gabor Maté of British Columbia recently visited Sacramento and laid out his theories in an interview with California Healthline.

01/13/2019

https://medium.com//the-complexities-of-covert-abuse-c47803ba10c?fbclid=IwAR3CPWvTJivdSixafCoSO1-aZVfMrrfUeC3wUjUY4C1JBxCuE4-LIzABBuI

The boiling frog fable tells the story of how a frog is slowly boiled alive.

01/10/2019

"All of these issues are very normal for complex trauma survivors."

01/09/2019

The Covert Narcissist The Covert Narcissist March 12, 2017 admin Comments 49 comments No one would believe that the man who sits in church with his family every Sunday, is a monster behind closed doors with the family that looks so perfect on the outside. No one would believe that the ‘doting’ m...

01/09/2019

People who suffer from toxic, chronic shame are affected by it in many areas of their life. Sometimes people aren’t even consciously aware of how it impacts them. Some simply say something like, “I just feel really bad about myself all the time.” I...

01/08/2019

'It’s like cabin fever after a few days, except it’s your life every day.'

01/06/2019

Please, tackle your failings with the same courage and honesty that defined your best comedy.