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Case Studies

Teddy was the gentle giant type: tall and a bit pale, soft all around, though he did play a fairly serious role on the lacrosse team. His curly hair only slightly covered the typical awkward teenage acne. His face generally...
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When I first met Mark, he was in his junior year of high school. He was quite polite and respectful, and had a bit of an intentional disarray going on with his look. His hair hung down his eyes from...
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Thad’s father originally found us through Google. He was a very amped up man, the kind that probably didn’t need to drink coffee but did anyway to take it to an 11. Thadd was a notable baseball player at Greenwich...
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Do you know if your teen has an eating disorder? Here is a story that illustrates what that looks like, and provides answers on how to discover it and what to do...
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Ethan arrived on campus that September only a shade over 100 pounds, watery-eyed, trying gamely to pull off the insouciance he read in classmates’  faces.  He gave away the game, though.  He was nervous and uncertain, although his last name...
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I want to tell a story about a boy from my time teaching.  He was someone I didn’t really help.  He took approximately 349 AP classes, he could toss touchdowns with ease, and when he got to high school his...
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When Aiden’s mother called me, he was a wink away from failing out of Bucknell. It was mid-January and he still hadn’t completed his courses from fall semester. The professors had been extremely lenient, and when the administration got involved,...
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“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it” –Mahatma Ghandi I’ve been studying English literature all my life but shamefully, I’ve never really understood James Joyce. If you’ve ever opened the tome, Ulysses, it’s...
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When she walked into our Greenwich branch office in The Anxiety Institute, I couldn’t quite figure out why she was there at all. She was energetic, very clever, and seemed to be quite social. She always wore bright-colored yoga pants...
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Matt was a clean cut kid from an affluent suburb of New Haven I met during his junior year of highschool who had been playing lacrosse basically since he was in diapers. His father was very, very committed and even...
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