Writing on the inner life

Therapy articles for the examined life.

Thoughtful, plain-language essays about anxiety, depression, burnout, relationships, and what it can feel like to begin therapy.

Do I Have to Tell My Trauma Story in Therapy?

How treatment approach, pacing, collaboration, and choice shape what you discuss—and what to ask before beginning.

Success arrived. The promised feeling did not. On burnout, depression, and the questions that emerge when achievement stops organizing a life.

Intelligence can describe a pattern brilliantly while leaving the body and nervous system exactly where they were.

A depth-oriented view of withdrawal, meaning, and why going under is not always the wrong direction.

Why recurring conflict is rarely only about the subject being discussed—and what the repetition may be protecting.

A practical account of fit, pacing, questions, and what you do—and do not—need to arrive prepared to discuss.

A symptom can be painful and still carry information about what has not yet found another way to be expressed.

What changes when attention becomes less corrective and more curious—in therapy and in ordinary life.

A free fifteen-minute conversation is a chance to ask practical questions and get a sense of whether working together might fit.