Articles
These pieces are where I work out, in writing, what I do clinically. They're written for the kind of reader who arrives at therapy already articulate about their patterns and is looking for something the patterns alone haven't moved. There's no required order, but a few natural starting points are below.
A few starting places
What Is Depth EMDR? — for the work in one piece
When Understanding Isn't Enough — if you've been in therapy and feel stuck
On Spirituality in My Work — how I hold meaning-making in therapy, and how I don't
How to Use Therapy in the Age of AI — what each is for, and what only the human work can offer
What AI Is Articulating About EMDR
AI can now run the EMDR protocol without a clinician. What it can't carry is the field the protocol was always there to hold open — and the contrast is clarifying what EMDR actually is.
What Resourcing Means in EMDR Therapy
Most descriptions of EMDR resourcing are thin — something about a safe place. What it actually is: locating internal resources you already have but haven't been able to reach. Why the resources you build during this phase often outlast the trauma processing itself.
On Spirituality in My Work
A direct answer to a question prospective clients sometimes hesitate to ask. Why my own inner life informs how I see without ever directing where we go, what I mean by spirituality as a wide umbrella, and the ethical commitment that keeps your values — not mine — as the ground we work on.
How to Use Therapy in the Age of AI
Most people in therapy also talk to AI about the same things. That isn't a problem — it's a new literacy. What AI does well, where it hits a wall, and the kind of human contact that nothing else can provide.
What Artists Innately Know About Trauma Processing
Artists already metabolize experience through their work, but the loop usually closes back into the work rather than the person. What becomes possible when imagination, body, and the made object enter the therapy room together.
What Shut My Creativity Down — and What Brought It Back
Art school's critique culture taught my nervous system to anticipate judgment, and the making went quiet. Years later, Jungian active imagination unexpectedly brought it back — and showed me what EMDR and the imagination share.
When Suffering Has Nowhere to Go
Addiction is, in a deeper sense, a solution to suffering that has lost its coherence. Why constructed meaning doesn't hold at three in the morning, what real meaning is made of, and what EMDR actually restores when processing reaches its conclusion.
We Imagine Our Way to Healing
Trauma therapy isn't working around the imagination — it's working through it. Why the body can't distinguish imagined from real, what resourcing actually does, and how EMDR happens in the space where imagination and nervous system meet.
What Trauma Does to the Imagination
Trauma prunes the field of what feels possible until the worst case crowds everything else out. Why limiting beliefs are imaginative constraints, why the goal isn't reassurance, and what restoration of range actually means.
Imagination Is Real
Imagination isn't fantasy, and it isn't only visual — it's a perceptual faculty across all the senses, and the nervous system receives it as real. Why understanding this changes how trauma persists and how it heals.
What Is Depth EMDR?
Depth EMDR isn't a new protocol but a sensibility — trust in the same organizing principle that depth psychology has long named, and that EMDR's adaptive information processing model points to under a different name. Two sentences taped above my screen.
The Difference Between Soothing and Avoiding
Soothing moves toward experience; avoiding moves away. Both can reduce discomfort, but they're different acts — and only one completes the loop. Why presence has to come before any real response, and why EMDR always starts there.
The Part of EMDR Nobody Can Fully Explain
EMDR's bilateral activation may be the most mysterious component of trauma therapy. Nobody fully knows why it works — but it may be a deliberate, concentrated version of something the body already knows how to do when we go for a walk to work something out.
When Understanding Isn't Enough
The people most skilled at understanding their patterns are sometimes the least able to change them. Why insight has a ceiling, what three layers of information your experience is actually carrying, and what it takes to move past the plateau.
Staying Whole When Everything Wants to Split You Apart
Resilience isn't toughness — it's staying whole when conditions invite us to split apart. How slow fragmentation hides itself under sustained stress, and why wholeness is a structural matter rather than a feeling state.
Your Psyche Doesn't Wait for Your Next Appointment
When you commit to deep therapeutic work, the work doesn't wait for your next appointment. How dreams begin to surface around EMDR sessions — and how to work with them as material that follows the emotional charge, not interpretation.