• Examples of Coercive Control in a Relationship

    Coercive control in a relationship involves forcing someone to act against their will through threats, intimidation, or manipulation, often to gain power and control. Examples of coercive control include isolating a person from their support system, monitoring their activities, controlling finances, and making them feel worthless. Here are specific examples of coercive behavior in a relationship: If you need assistance…

  • Review about Robin Newman

    Review about Robin Newman left by Phil S. “This review could literally be 10 pages long: one page for every year that I have known her both professionally and personally… Professionally, Robin is top notch. I find her to be an open-minded, straight-talking, no BS, problem solving, truth warrior. She will be the most sensitive, caring, concerned, human being you…

  • Therapy for Better Mental Health

    Therapy for better mental health with Robin Newman, licensed social worker in Long Island, NY So, somebody said to me, “ugh, 2020.. it sucked..” Yeah, it did. But I’ll tell you something really great that came out of 2020. More people now, than ever before, are finally looking at mental health / therapy as a viable, positive option to feeling…

  • Stress Counseling with LCSW Robin Newman

    We all know (in our rational / prefrontal brain) that stress isn’t a good thing in anxiety, but yet we still do it, right? We still feel it.. So it’s going into that second place and saying, okay, I know it’s not good, so maybe I need to try looking at it from this perspective in order to reframe it…

  • Narrative Therapist

    The role of the narrative therapist is to enlist the client’s problem solving capacities by focusing on successful ways that they’ve coped in the past. Robin Newman, LCSW teaching at Adelphi University about the role of a narrative therapist in social work. < Watch more videos of social worker and adjunct professor Robin Newman >

  • Relationship Tip #10

    Relationship Tip #10 Differentiation and togetherness are both important in a relationship. You need time as a couple and you need time as an individual. There will be activities you do together and ones you do separately. There will be values you share, and values that are important to one of you, but not the other. Learn to accept and…