This past month, Matt has been excited to be featured in several publications, including Jetsetter and HerMoney. Most recently, HerMoney’s Melanie Brooks talked with Matt for the publication’s “When Death Happens: Planning For The Unexpected,” which lists some essential preparations couples should make in regards to financial and estate planning related to death. While talking about dying can be a tough topic, Matt specifically spoke to the importance of creating a culture in your relationship in which these conversations can happen, and noted that the first conversation is usually the hardest.
Matt was also quoted on the ways that travel can act as a “hard reset” or a “creative disruption” for overworked professionals in Jetsetter’s “Three Big Reasons Why Travel Is Good For Your Mental Health.” Matt acknowledges that while travel doesn’t necessarily function as an antidote to all suffering (other than perhaps temporarily), it can help with issues such as creative blocks, the desire to connect with a partner, friends or family, or feeling lost professionally.
On the Tribeca Therapy blog, Matt published “Debunking the Authority of the DSM,” in which he critiqued how diagnosis is related to as a higher order of science, and more significant than other ways of understanding human suffering and emotionality. While certainly not against diagnosis (a common misconception about Tribeca Therapy’s practice of non-diagnostic therapy), Matt suggested an alternate way of relating to diagnosis–as an offering for exploration rather than an absolute authority–and how this might make way for other ways of understanding emotional struggles.
In addition, Matt also participated in a conversation with Jordan Conrad, who joined Tribeca Therapy earlier this year, on the place of philosophy in therapy. While Matt and Jordan have differing levels of study in philosophy, they both see it as incredibly present in their therapy practice. The two discuss how they came to both philosophy and therapy, and how philosophy’s way of examining a subject with intense scrutiny and intellectual honesty can be helpful in the therapy room.