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The Network of Attention in Brainspotting and IFS

The Network of Attention in Brainspotting and IFS

Brainspotting and IFS are both transformative ways to work with the effects of trauma and distressing experiences. Each of these modalities supports clients in attending to, rather than avoiding, the present-day pain caused by past traumas. Doing so helps liberate us...
Existential Anxiety: The Opportunity for Agency

Existential Anxiety: The Opportunity for Agency

Existential anxiety is a result of our own freedom to make choices, our responsibility for ourselves, the inherent meaninglessness of life, and the inevitability of death. Existential dread is another term for this type of anxiety, which differs from what we generally...
A Big List of Mental Health Resources

A Big List of Mental Health Resources

Here’s a non-comprehensive collection of info about therapy modalities I use. You’ll also find lots of mental health resources, some specific to the types of folks I often work with and a couple more general support sections at the end. Internal Family Systems...
Situated Freedom in Existential Therapy: Ethics and Oppression

Situated Freedom in Existential Therapy: Ethics and Oppression

In a previous article about existential freedom, I mentioned that the principle of freedom grounds everything else in existential therapy. And it does, but let’s be real: many of us don’t have as much freedom as we want. Freedom is often limited in some way or...
Freedom in Existential Therapy: The Burden of Choice

Freedom in Existential Therapy: The Burden of Choice

Freedom drives all other existential concepts. Existential psychology holds that we are all born into the world with the freedom to shape our path through life. Rather than handing over decisions to religion, family, cultural norms and expectations, or some other...