About My Blog

You’ll notice when you start reading practically anything on my site, but particularly my blog, that it sounds more like I’m speaking to someone in conversation than like I’m writing for professionals to read. That’s exactly what I’m going for! When I write for professionals to read, it can get weighed down with jargon like intersubjective space, self-regulatory processes, optimal dysregulation, insufficient object, etc. Those are important, meaningful terms that help clinicians quickly describe some extremely complex notions when we’re trying to get at even more complex notions, but I have no intention of getting into any of that here.

I’d rather use this space for writing something that most folks can find useful and applicable to their daily lives, and that can give people some idea of how therapy might be helpful to them in situations they may face on a regular basis.

We tend to have an idea that therapy is for grave, serious, extremely bad, or extremely “sick” folks. This is stigma: the notion that having a mental illness or experiencing symptoms that therapy could help you with makes you somehow “less than.” Part of what I’d like to get across in my blog, although it’s never the only thing or the main thing I write about, is that this simply isn’t true. Anyone who’d like to know themselves better, or who’d like to move past a pattern that feels unfulfilling, painful, or “stuck,” can benefit from therapy.

On we go!