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 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.
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.