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
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.
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.
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.