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.
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.
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.