Gordon Therapy Group

11/23/2025

https://gordontherapygroup.com/teen-perfectionism-anxiety-help/

Is your teen losing sleep over homework, tests, or tiny mistakes? Learn how perfectionism, anxiety, and OCD show up—and how Gordon Therapy Group can help.

11/20/2025

Excited to share that Dr. Sara Fruchter, the newest member of the Gordon Therapy Group team, will be presenting a mini-workshop on teens and social media at ABCT this weekend. If you're at the conference, go check it out!

The title is:
Mini Workshop 10 - Teens and Screens: Cognitive Behavioral Interventions That Promote Digital and Mental Wellbeing

Abstract: Over a decade of research has explored relationships between social media use and mental health in adolescents; however, relevant evidence-based interventions are lacking. Researchers have identified mediators (e.g., social comparison, negative feedback, risky self-presentation) that should be targeted by interventions. Unfortunately, some existing treatments rely on abstinence-based models (e.g., “digital detox”), which may ostracize teens, neglect benefits of social media use, and fail to provide long-term skill acquisition. Research shows that harm reduction and strengths-based approaches are often more effective. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a gold-standard treatment that provides a starting point. This workshop will teach clinicians how to utilize CBT tools to educate and empower teens to better understand and manage their tech habits.

Our team created a CBT-based intervention to provide psychoeducation and skills training to teens to minimize risks and maximize benefits of social media use, in both online and offline contexts. We will begin by discussing assessment of adolescents’ social media use as it relates to current symptomatology and emotion regulation. Using role play and interactive teaching, we will demonstrate core intervention components and their application for social media use, including assessment, psychoeducation, mindfulness, values clarification, cognitive restructuring, and behavioral activation in the context of “fear of missing out” (FOMO), mental health misinformation, artificial intelligence, unrealistic body image standards, and more. Parenting interventions will also be covered, including empowering parents to understand teen tech use and set appropriate limits. Special attention will be paid to individual differences and the optimization of the interventions for marginalized youth, as well as safety considerations. Interactive activities and role plays will be used to demonstrate concepts. We will also present preliminary data on the feasibility and acceptability of our treatment model in an adolescent partial hospital program.This workshop will be accessible to clinicians of diverse training backgrounds and interventions can be applied across multiple levels of care.

09/17/2025

LAST CALL - If you have an anxious child, join our 6 session virtual parenting group that starts tomorrow at noon to learn how to help them with their fears!

Contact info@gordontherapygroup.com

09/10/2025

If you have a school-age child, you need to read this!

Learn why kids procrastinate—whether from boredom, anxiety, or ADHD—and how therapy in NYC can help them succeed.

09/08/2025

Have a child with anxiety, night-time fears, or OCD? Join our parenting group, Thursdays at noon, to help them! Email info@gordontherapygroup.com to sign up.

09/07/2025

07/24/2025

Sharing this insightful piece about the emotional health of boys and men in modern society by my friend and colleague, Dr. J. Ryan Fuller

“If you’re not thinking about what’s happening to boys and how they’re being raised, that can actually hurt women.”  

07/09/2025

https://youtu.be/4uJv3y9ajQY?si=xDTddndTjEhqpSQP

If you have ADHD, you are not alone. In fact, you can do great things!Learn more about the book here: https://theholdernessfamily.com/adhd-is-awesome/__Thank...

06/16/2025

If you or a loved on identify as neurodiverse, what do you think about dating coaching? Is it helpful, or does it increase problematic masking and inauthenticity? Can it be helpful and be masking? Food for thought in this article -

When U.C.L.A. psychologists first proposed teaching adults with autism how to date, funders wouldn’t go near it. Now we are in a new world.

06/05/2025

Struggling to make sense of your child’s challenges at school—or at home? You’re not alone. Whether it’s attention, learning, emotions, or behavior, our neuropsychological evaluations help uncover what’s really going on beneath the surface. We test for ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, learning disa...

11/19/2024

Love these funny sketches about dealing with anxiety!

“The Noise in Your Head” video series, from the book Stopping the Noise in Your Head, delivers 6 concise, comedic installments.

07/03/2024

Gordon Therapy Group is offering another round of the Yale Child Study Center’s SPACE group for parents of anxious children.

This group teaches parents how best to respond to anxious kids, benefitting both parent and child. Research indicates the child’s anxiety can improve through changing the parental response.

Six sessions, offered virtually
Tuesdays at 12:00 pm
Contact Dr. Sara Morgenstern at drmorgenstern@ gordontherapygroup.com to enroll