Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D. | Women's Voices For Change

Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with more than 30 years experience as a psychotherapist in New York City. A specialist in women’s emotional health, her areas of expertise and interest include marriage and relationship therapy, parenting, sexual health and menopause, eating disorders and addictions, and body image. She also researches and advises women over 40 about Internet dating.

Emotional Health

The Arc of Progress: The Good, Bad, and Deadly

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Living today under the threat of climate change, anticipating a possible self-inflicted collapse of our natural world, it does not surprise us to learn that the arc of progress has not always been good for us.

Emotional Health · Politics

Celebrating Independence Day in a Divided Nation

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

It no longer seems clear that we all agree upon what America stands for. A consensus about what it means to be a citizen and how those values are upheld is in question.

Emotional Health

While You Are Sleeping and Dreaming

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

A lot goes on when you are sleeping, much of it important work for maintaining physical and mental health.

Emotional Health

How to Understand Hate

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

The origins of hatred and its ability to spread as if the Devil had tossed a cigarette into dried underbrush is a subject that has preoccupied psychologists, sociologists, and historians for much of the last 70 years.

Emotional Health

Summer’s Healing Power: Earth, Water, and Light

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

In our culture, we are prone to avoid, block, or soothe painful feelings, but this approach is based on the idea that accepting, rather than fighting feelings, is a better way. In trying to fight or avoid pain, we often make it worse.

Books

Toni Morrison:
The Power of Fiction in the Arc of Progress

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Her legacy remains in her great books, and her life will be remembered for her vision and courageous honesty.

Emotional Health · Family & Friends

Daughters, Mothers, and Grandmothers

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

The paradox of parenthood is that while this overarching connection and investment in your children is essential, being a good mother also requires that you let them become themselves.

Food & Drink · Nutrition

Food Wars: The Struggle for Healthy Eating

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

The past ten years have seen an explosion of interest in and controversy about just what comprises healthy eating. As a result, new diets and regimes abound.

Marriage & Life Partners

The Covid Marriage

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

The enforced togetherness required by social distancing has led couples to spend more time together than usual, a lot of it. And even for those that have strong, solid relationships, it’s been, well, a bit more than they’d like.

Books · Emotional Health

Man’s Search for Meaning

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

The most helpful insight of Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Books · Politics

Book Review: Clara Bingham Captures Complexity of ‘the Sixties’

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

'Witness to the Revolution' is an important book that will be a reference point for years to come in the effort to understand one of the most complex periods in our nation’s history. Clara Bingham has captured it like a photograph of lightning just as it strikes.