Here is a great episode from the Hidden Brain podcast discussing imposter feelings and self-doubt. This theme comes up a lot in my work in therapy with patients, and this a great resource for taking a different perspective on the phenomenon. Enjoy!

Check out this upcoming conference that I will be a guest speak at. Learn more here, and click to learn how to register!

Here is a piece about suicide. I offer a different perspective and way of looking at and making sense of suicide.

Check out this great podcast from Esther Perel. It demonstrates an intensive session of what couples therapy can look like.

Check out this amazing episode from This Jungian Life on Amor Fati, or the love of one’s fate. This is a concept developed by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and is one of his greatest gifts to therapy and existentialism. As an existential therapist, this concept has helped both myself in my personal life— as well as several patients in their own therapeutic work and process.

Check out this great video from the wonderful youtube channel School of Life. This video discusses the importance of explaining one’s needs. This is a major task fo therapy— to identify one’s needs and learn how to give voice to them.

Here is an interview I did with Zencare. This interview dives into why i became a therapist and how I bring my experience into my practice.

Anger and rage are emotions that we often think as only negative emotions that we should silence and completely cut off from our experience and emotional language. Yet, anger and rage, like all emotions— negative or otherwise,— have their function and use. Check out this episode from the wonderful and amazing podcast The Hidden Brain on the logic of rage. This episode is less focused on therapy and more focused on neuroscience. That said, anger has its place in our lives, and can be both worked through and given healthy space in psychotherapy.

Check out this article by Dr. Santos on the science of forgiveness. It’s a nice, easy-to-digest piece about forgiveness. Much more can and has been said about forgiveness, but this is a great little thought piece about the concept and how it manifests in our lives. Forgiveness comes up a lot in therapy, and especially in couples therapy. I see this come up quite often, and I have seen how hard it is for patients to forgive either others or themselves. And this is a common aspect of the couples therapy that I do. And I will say— forgiveness is more of an art than actual science.

Check out this great podcast episode on why our past is important. The hosts of this podcast discuss how our past shapes us, but we are not limited by it— and can create our own story and new ending or meaning from our past traumas and shaping events.

When thinking about depression, we often jump to its negative and destructive attributes.  Yet, it is my belief that there are positive aspects of depression that are overlooked when examining the topic.  And while I am not here to make the case that depression is a phenomenon we should wholly embrace and make a regular part of our lives-- I do think it is important to look at as many sides and angles as possible in everything and every situation.  The purpose of this blog post is not to make an argument in favor of depression, but see it in a new light.  My hope is that, maybe through this exploration, you might gain a new perspective or understanding about depression, either in your own life or in the lives of those closest to you.  Perhaps, it may even increase your empathy towards those who live with this experience on the regular, to whom which you may not relate to.