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A client came to see me recently — I'll call him James* — with a problem I hear more often than almost anything else: he couldn't sleep. Not occasionally. Not during a stressful week. For as long as he could remember. He told me, almost in passing, “I've always been a bad sleeper” — the [...]
It usually starts innocently enough: a green smoothie here, a “what I eat in a day” reel there, a hashtag promising to help you eat clean, feel light, and finally get on top of your health. For many of us, it feels less like content and more like motivation. But a growing body of research [...]
(Mia's story below is a composite drawn from common patterns seen in practice; identifying details have been changed to protect privacy.) Mia couldn't point to a single moment. That was the hardest part. There was no affair to name, no lie she could hold up as proof. What she had instead was a pattern: her [...]
Claire's story below is a composite drawn from common patterns I see in practice - details are changed to protect privacy. "I still don't know what I did." That's how a client of mine - I'll call her Claire - opened one of our sessions. She'd been part of the same friendship group for over [...]
What the science of friendship tells us about safety, quality over quantity, and the quiet grief of losing a friend Scroll through social media and it can look as though everyone else has an enormous, glittering social life: group holidays, birthday brunches, hundreds of followers. If your own world feels smaller, you might wonder whether [...]
I want to talk about something that doesn't get discussed the way it should. Not in the way that makes people feel judged, or broken, or like they just need to "try harder." But in a way that might, I hope, make some of you feel a little more understood. Because if you have ever [...]
The Thought-Emotion-Action Loop As a psychologist, one of the most powerful things I explore with clients is the chain reaction that governs our lives: our thoughts shape our emotions, and our emotions drive our actions. It sounds simple. It isn't. When something doesn't go our way, we rarely stop to examine the thought. We just [...]
It’s easy to point the finger outward. To focus on what someone else did wrong. How someone hurt us. How we were misunderstood, overlooked, dismissed, or betrayed. And sometimes, those things are true. But growth begins the moment we become willing to pause before reacting and ask ourselves: What is this showing me? What within [...]
A theme I keep seeing in my work with couples and individuals Lately, in session after session, a familiar pattern has been showing up. People come in carrying the weight of a difficult relationship - a partner who hurt them, a family member who let them down, a friendship that turned. They want to feel [...]
If you’re reading this on the Monday after Mother’s Day, take a breath. The brunches are over. The cards have been opened or quietly recycled. The social media feeds, which yesterday were flooded with bouquets and tributes, are returning to their usual rhythms. For some, yesterday was tender and warm. For others, it was complicated. [...]
