Why Your Algorithm Matters This isn’t another blog about how screen time is bad for your mental health. I’m not going to bury you in statistics or policy debates. Instead, I want to talk straight: me, a therapist, to you, a potential client, about your relationship...
In my San Diego therapy office sits a landscape painting of a misty, shadowed forest. It hangs directly over my right shoulder, so when clients look at me, it’s always there in the background. The rest of the office is much brighter. Two of my favorites are framed...
The Mummy and the Necklace of Prayers In the 1999 adventure film The Mummy, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz share the screen with a character who becomes the villain’s lackey. Facing death, he clutches at his neck, revealing a jumble of religious pendants. Desperate,...
The Ethics of Self-Disclosure in Therapy “Patients are not responsible for their therapists’ emotional wellbeing. Any implication that they are should be viewed as a breach of professional ethics.”— Nancy McWilliams Therapists face a choice when it comes to...
Why I Bristle at Bad Ideas In today’s post, I want to push back on some common trauma healing myths—especially the idea that trauma is a kind of toxin ‘stored’ in the bodyAs a therapist and teacher, I live with a daily tension: letting shaky ideas pass or calling them...
