Kelly
Group Therapy: what actually happens in the room
Group therapy is the treatment I refer to most often and the one patients fight me hardest on. The fight is almost always the same: I don’t want…
Jun 4, 2025
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS (internal family systems, the therapy model that asks the patient to relate to different aspects of himself as if they were distinct internal parts…
Jun 1, 2025
Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
Prolonged exposure is one of the two gold-standard treatments for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder, the trauma-spectrum condition that follows certain…
May 27, 2025
You mad, bro?
A lot of guys think anger is the problem because anger is the part everybody sees...
May 11, 2025
The Playlist Changed. So Did We.
There's probably a song you still know by heart that taught you something about love before you were old enough to question it. Not in some dramatic way.
Apr 16, 2025
Go with your Gut
You probably know this feeling.
Mar 24, 2025
For the Elder Millenials, Gen X’rs, and Beyond
Sometimes aging announces itself in the smallest possible way. Not with a dramatic milestone. Not with a birthday that suddenly changes everything.
Mar 17, 2025
988 and the gap between calling and getting help
988 is better than 911 used to be for a mental health crisis, which is a low bar and a real improvement at the same time. It’s a…
Mar 10, 2025
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT (dialectical behavior therapy, the skills-and-group approach that came out of Marsha Linehan's lab in the 1980s) got invented to treat patients with…
Feb 6, 2025
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy, the structured worksheet-and-homework kind, not the talk-about-your-mother kind) is the therapy with the most evidence…
Feb 4, 2025