Should you break up or try couples therapy? Learn how couples counseling in Manhattan can help address recurring arguments and decide whether to stay together.

Dr. Jordan Conrad discusses depression, anxiety, and life transitions when children leave for college, and how psychotherapy for mothers in Manhattan can help them.

Do you hate your job, or could it be depression? Learn about burnout, work depression, and when to consider working with a depression therapist in Manhattan.

Loneliness in NYC can contribute to depression. Learn how dating, college, relationships, and isolation intersect—and how depression therapy in Manhattan can help.

What distinguishes a normal condition from a disorder? Explore leading theories of mental disorder and what they mean for psychiatry, diagnosis, and psychotherapy.

Dr. Jordan Conrad of Lexington Park Psychotherapy discusses the psychology of hair loss, self-esteem, and why some men struggle to let go of their hair with Huffpost

Lexington Park Psychotherapy founder Jordan Conrad discusses the ethics of politics, self-disclosure, and political disagreement in the therapy room.

Depression in teenagers in NYC is on the rise and some symptoms can hide behind good grades. Lexington Park Psychotherapy identifies signs that parents may miss.

Explore the difference between burnout and depression, key warning signs, and the benefits of private psychotherapy for high-achieving Manhattan professionals

High-functioning depression can hide behind success. Learn the signs and how therapy in Manhattan can help adults and teens who feel empty despite achievement.

When worry becomes proof that you are unlovable, it may be anxious depression. Find out how therapy in Manhattan can help build a steadier sense of self.

Most people think depression is simply an unusually intense form of sadness. On this view, depression differs from ordinary unhappiness only in degree: it is what happens when sadness becomes incredibly severe or lasts long enough. This understanding is intuitive, but it misses the real essence of what distinguishes clinical depression and subclinical depression.

Feeling guilty before doing anything wrong is often anxiety, not conscience. Anxiety therapy in Manhattan, NY helps you understand & address the difference.

You often hear about anxious attachment and its effect on how you show up in relationships and how anxiety influences intimacy and closeness even in committed relationships, but nobody really discusses how anxiety can affect a relationship, even when the anxiety isn’t about the relationship at all. In another post, we will discuss the difficulties and ways to hurdle those difficulties of relationships in which all parties have some significant anxiety, but in today’s post, we

When you’re in a loving, established relationship, it can come as a surprise how destabilizing life-transitions can be. Moments that seem objectively good – like moving in together, getting engaged, welcoming a new child, or moving to a new city – can put a strain on the relationship in unexpected ways, causing more stress and more arguments. This often catches couples by surprise. They expected these changes to be hard, but they didn’t anticipate just how intense or how fre

When people think of anxiety or of being anxious, they often think of acute anxiety – panic attacks, hyperventilating, and an intense fear of doing something. For most people, however, anxiety exists as a kind of chronic or ambient state – a constant hum of self-doubt fills every moment, not enough to prevent you from leaving the house or speaking to other people, but enough to make it feel unpleasant. Although anxiety is characterized by its distinctive kind of fear or worry

Intelligence is usually assumed to be a protection against anxiety. If you can think clearly, evaluate evidence, and recognize cognitive distortions, it seems like you should be far less vulnerable to irrational fears and worries. Yet many highly intelligent people find themselves trapped in anxious feelings despite understanding it exceptionally well. Part of the reason is that intelligence can collude, so to speak, with anxiety. Highly intelligent people are often able to c

Some relationships are bad for you in obvious ways. There is clear incompatibility, dishonesty, instability, and conflict. But many relationships feel bad for a different reason: when the nature of the relationship is unclear, when the communication is ambiguous or on-and-off, it can provoke a kind of relational anxiety. When the relationship never feels settled because it never gets well-defined, because attention and reassurance appear just often enough to keep the connecti

There is a particular kind of anxiety that often, but not always, hides in productivity. For many people, staying busy is not simply about getting things done; it is a way to regulate their emotions. Having something to do, a direction, a channel for their energy, can feel stabilizing. People like this are often successful in their field and appear to be very fulfilled. The difficulty, however, is that when the structure of having a purpose falls away, so too can that stabili

People tend to think that relationship anxiety happens in the absence of contact. And there is some truth to that: when you don’t hear from your partner for a while, you can start to think about why that is, whether they’re treating the relationship seriously, and whether it is important to them. The idea is that time provides people with enough space to start to ruminate. There is some truth to that, of course, but for many people, the feeling of anxiety doesn’t disappear af