Treatment, plain English.
Therapy types compared, how care actually works, and what to ask a prescriber.
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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
PTSD Treatment
PTSD is what happens when your brain encodes a memory wrong.
Jul 19, 2025
Anxiety Treatment
The public conversation about anxiety treatment and the clinical reality have drifted about as far apart as it's possible for two conversations on the…
Jul 7, 2025
Ketamine Assisted Therapy
Ketamine-assisted therapy is what it sounds like.
Jul 6, 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
Depression Treatment
Depression ≠ sadness. Sadness has a thing it's about. Depression doesn't, it just follows you around like a Dementor sucking the light out of the world.
Jun 19, 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