Treatment, plain English.
Therapy types compared, how care actually works, and what to ask a prescriber.
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Sobriety Isn’t the Hard Part (It’s Everything After)
People think getting sober is the hard part. Yeah, detox sucks, early sobriety is uncomfortable, breaking the actual habit is genuinely difficult...
Aug 25, 2025
Why “Self-Care” Misses the Point (And What Actually Works)
I'm not against bubble baths. If a hot bath and some candles make you feel better, great, do that, nobody's coming for your candles.
Aug 18, 2025
Call It What It Is: The Naming Method Explained
This is the core of how I work with people, so it's worth getting on the page in plain English. The Naming Method comes down to one principle.
Aug 9, 2025
Men’s Mental Health: Why Asking for Help Feels Impossible
You already know something's off, and you've probably known for a while... months, maybe years.
Jul 1, 2025
PHP vs IOP vs Outpatient
These three terms get used like everybody knows what they mean and most patients don't, so they end up in the wrong level of care.
Jun 14, 2025
Psychiatric hospitalization: what to expect
Most people who get hospitalized for a psychiatric reason have never been inside one and have no idea what's about to happen, which makes a scary thing…
Jun 12, 2025
CBT-I deep dive (beyond the mention)
CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, the structured-protocol kind that actually has a syllabus, not the talk-about-your-sleep-feelings kind)…
Jun 9, 2025
Why Men Avoid Therapy
Men kill themselves at roughly four times the rate women do in the US, that gap has held year after year, the pandemic didn't close it, the recession…
Jun 7, 2025
Couples Therapy for substance use
If one partner has a drinking or drug problem and they're in a relationship, the partner is part of the treatment whether anybody signs them up for it or…
Jun 6, 2025Group 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, 2025Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy, a “third-wave” behavioral therapy that grew up out of the CBT lineage in the late 80s and 90s) has built itself into a…
May 30, 2025