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

Nattan Hollander LMFT Nattan Hollander LMFT

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.

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