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
Talking to Someone Who Isn't There
Most people who do this call it "talking to myself" — and say it braced to be told it's a symptom. It's neither a symptom nor make-believe, but an old and ordinary faculty, and the only question that matters is whether it's an encounter or only an echo.
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.