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.
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.
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.