Articles and Reflections

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, is a form of psychotherapy that supports mental health by helping shift thought patterns through cognitive therapy.

Learn what Person-Centered Therapy is, how unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence shape the process, and why this approach can feel deeply healing.

Learn how Internal Family Systems explains managers, firefighters, exiles, and the 8 C’s of Self, and how IFS helps build compassion, harmony, and self-leadership.

Why context matters in emotional reactions. Explore bearing witness, compassionate curiosity, and why presence often needs to come before advice, comfort, or empowerment.

Setting healthy boundaries sounds simple—but in reality, it’s emotionally demanding. This piece explores the inner work, grief, and self-reflection required to navigate relationships while honoring your needs and healing generational patterns.

I must give credit to one of my clients, who unknowingly inspired me to write this blog post, as we had a session during which he shared his discovery of the phrase: “liminal space.” He was deeply moved by this “moving between worlds” energetic, spiritual, and embodied experience - leaving one to enter another, but not quite fully knowing what the one to come might bring. It is a powerful, often uncomfortable, period of transition.

Relationships can be both the source of such powerful healing and also the source of our most painful wounds. What do we do with this simultaneous power and vulnerability in our relationship with ourselves and with others?

When my daughter was very young, I would talk to her about “the hard part and the fun part” of things. This was my way of honoring the coexistence of both challenges and gifts in life, in the hopes of her learning that both can be true, and both can be held. These simple words often ring so familiarly true for adoptees in many parts of life.