Social justice counseling rests on the truth that our deepest embodied experiences are shaped by oppressive systems. In this framework, “symptoms” are better understood as survival responses or adaptations to the environment than as internal problems to be...
Phenomenological therapy is about your internal truth: your perceptions of being in your own body, in your own mind, and in the world. In this type of therapy, we begin with curiosity about your lived experience. We both strive to enter into the process without...
What is the edge of awareness? The edge of awareness is a psychic location where something previously unknown takes shape. A body sensation becomes information about our physical state. Unsettledness resolves into a clear emotion. Some words write themselves into a...
IFS therapy is a transformative healing process based on the belief that we all have a complex system of parts within ourselves: we are many things at once. The beauty of IFS is that it helps us inhabit more of who we are. We bond more deeply to parts of us who show...
Sexuality can be a site of exploration, pleasure, and discovery—BDSM equally so. In this article, I explore the practice from an IFS perspective, identifying motivations people’s systems may have for engaging in this type of subversive sexuality as well as how such...
