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· Kristi Spagnuolo

Starting Over with a New Therapist

There are many reasons why you might find yourself in the position of finding a new therapist. Whether you are coming back to therapy after a few months or years after your last experience with therapy, or perhaps you are continuing immediately after a closure with your most recent therapist, there are a few ways to consider and prepare for beginning the therapeutic journey with a new therapist.- Kaely Phelps, LMSW

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· Kristi Spagnuolo

Body Positivity and Social Media

Have you ever found yourself questioning your life? Do you compare yourself to pictures that you see others post? The number of likes and shares can feel like society’s judgment on how we present ourselves. What makes one person popular and another obscure? You might find yourself wondering how other people’s lives look so amazing when you feel stuck.

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· Kristi Spagnuolo

Counseling for College Students: Everything You Need To Know!

College is an exciting time. You’re tasting a sense of freedom and independence for the first time. It’s a time to grow and develop outside of the environment you grew up in. However, many college students experience a sense of “culture shock” when they enter campus life. They are adjusting to roommates, increasing school work, changes in academic performance, new friendships, relationships, and so much more. If you’re an international student, that may come as a double "cultural shock". You’re becoming accustomed to college and the US for the first time perhaps. This can cumulatively take a toll on your mental health and leave you struggling to move forward. At Repose Therapy, we see the magnitude of the many challenges you face. Whether you’re at NYU, Columbia, FIT, Sarah Lawerence, Barnard, SVA, Julliard, or Yeshiva, online therapy is a great place to start to get that extra support.

Read more: Counseling for College Students: Everything You Need To Know!
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· Kristi Spagnuolo

Anxiety Treatment at Repose Therapy Can Help!

At Repose, we believe in the efficacy of holistic wellness. What does that mean? It means that we take into account everything that makes you, you! That includes your mind, body, and spirit. We need to address the environment we come from and the emotions themselves. You are integrated into the world around you, meaning we cannot isolate these parts of you to work on creating a better you. Therefore, we want to help you understand these components and find a way to find calm in an already chaotic world. That means in therapy, it is important to not only understand what is happening but why it is happening. Psychoeducation is a huge part of understanding yourself better. Together we will learn about you to help you develop healthy coping skills and prevention for the future.

Read more: Anxiety Treatment at Repose Therapy Can Help!
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· Kristi Spagnuolo

Gottman Method: Strategies for De-escalating and Managing Conflict in Gottman

The Gottman Method specifically recognizes that even within successful relationships, there will inevitably be some unresolvable conflicts. With this principle in mind, the Gottman Method refers to a system of conflict management rather than conflict resolution. There are ways that successful couples approach conflict, even those that feel unresolvable, that allow them to maintain positive sentiment and feel heard and respected within these conversations. There are three main practices to managing conflict in the Sound Relationship House: 1) accept your partner’s influence, 2) dialogue about problems, 3) practice self soothing.- Kaely Phelps, LMSW, SIFI

Read more: Gottman Method: Strategies for De-escalating and Managing Conflict in Gottman
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· Kristi Spagnuolo

Understanding Couples Conflict through the Gottman Method: Four Horsemen of Relationship Communication

The Gottman Method is an evidence based approach to couples therapy that enables couples to reduce verbal conflict, and increase intimacy, affection, and respect. It is founded by psychologists, and husband and wife team, Julie and John Gottman. The Gottmans have over 40 years of research and clinical practice with couples and their methodology is applicable to all types of couples across all phases of life and relationship stages. The foundation of the Gottman Method is based on creating mutual understanding and positive regard within the relationship.- Kaely Phelps, LMSW, SIFI

Read more: Understanding Couples Conflict through the Gottman Method: Four Horsemen of Relationship Communication
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· Kristi Spagnuolo

Reconciling Your Muslim Faith with Therapy

Have you ever heard the advice: “Just pray, and everything will be okay”? Has someone reprimanded you for being “ungrateful” when you were genuinely having a difficult time? As much as advocacy for mental wellness has advanced and become normalized in recent times, there is still a stigma attached to attending therapy in the Muslim community. Oftentimes, members of the Muslim community may struggle with their mental health, but hesitate to seek treatment due to a culture of guilt or shame. Why?

Read more: Reconciling Your Muslim Faith with Therapy
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· Kristi Spagnuolo

Healing from Sexual Violence: Staying Rooted and Practicing Safety & Coping Skills

Sexual violence, including but not limited to sexual assault, child sexual abuse, domestic or intimate partner violence, is an unspoken, stigmatized, and unfortunately common experience within many South Asian communities. The silence that individuals endure for the sake of self-preservation against family, community, and the larger direct effects of shame, blame, guilt, can take an immense toll on one's emotional health and result in post-traumatic stress.- Bushra Shaheen, LMSW

Read more: Healing from Sexual Violence: Staying Rooted and Practicing Safety & Coping Skills
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· Kristi Spagnuolo

Navigating the Complexity of South Asian Cultural Norms While Being LGBTQIA+

All you have ever wanted is to feel like you belong. Like this world has space for you. Like you can live your truth whilst retaining your culture and traditions. But society wants to push you out. “You can’t be Indian and gay; You can’t be Muslim and queer; You can’t be Pakistani and trans; You can’t be you”. You feel a pressure to sacrifice parts of yourself. Either uphold your queerness or your culture, you are told there is no place for both. This is commonly the experience of queer South-Asian folks all over the world.- Prerna Menon, LMSW, CTP

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· Kristi Spagnuolo

How Accessing Primary Emotions Can Help You Heal

When our nervous systems are triggered by safe or unsafe situations, they send signals to our bodies. The initial perception that we have of these messages, before we can create meaning around them or move into action, is a feeling, a primary emotion. Thus, if we want to respond to stressors and triggers in our lives with wisdom and intention, we must work from the bottom, up - by investigating our primary emotions.

Read more: How Accessing Primary Emotions Can Help You Heal
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· Kristi Spagnuolo

Finding Your Voice By Reclaiming the Narrative

As humans, we long for connection with others, whether that be romantic or platonic. We are always seeking to build lasting and meaningful relationships with others. That instinct is constantly reinforced by society and mirrored in our media: you will only feel complete once you’ve found that other part of your soul.

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· Kristi Spagnuolo

Radical Acceptance: How Accepting Our Pain can Prevent us from Prolonging our

At times in life, we experience events that are so difficult that accepting them may seem nearly impossible. In other instances, it may be more day-to-day frustrations that we cannot come to terms with. There may be no justification for the things in life that cause us pain. We may wish things happened differently. We may not deserve them. Some things don't feel fair at all.

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