Therapists that share client quotes on social media, in session with someone confessing their deepest, darkest secrets and vulnerabilities:

Having a blast at a day-long CE training today.

Roy Barsness is presenting on psychodynamic supervision & theory.

Interesting approaches + angles that we’re discussing *in-person* with some great folks. It’s making for a fun time.

Kendrick’s halftime show is much more impactful if you’re familiar with his work and see the themes connecting across albums’ worth of material.

I'm pumped my poster got accepted for the CAPS conference.

Continuing the #psychedelic project, this'll focus on how clinicians' consciences may shape how they interact (or don't) with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

Just watched Hulu's THE CONTESTANT. Wow.

Sharp, heartbreaking example of exploitation within entertainment. A real-life Truman Show.

Nasubi powerfully reflects on psychological pressures + deceptions that kept him trapped, naked in a room for 15 months with millions watching.

Currently meditating on the plight of man and his insatiable appetites and affections

Introduced my family to CHILDREN OF MEN, one of my favorite Christmastime watches.

It beautifully + depressingly captures chaos + suffering that gets upended by a miraculous birth.

A sneaky good Christmas movie.

This is much of my therapy work.

If folks were healthy enough to take advice, flexibly adapt to life, and leverage spiritual resources/community they wouldn’t be seeing me.

Our work is growing the developmental-mental-emotional-relational-habitual muscles needed to do all that.

Nathan Pyle strikes again!

My tree decorators take an avant-garde approach to the Christmas tree.

They subvert the neat, equidistant ornament placement seen in the platonic ideal of a Christmas tree.

Their clusters evoke the sporadic, chaotic messiness of real life.

Not bad for being 5 & 2 years old.

I really dialed in my roast beef game this Thanksgiving.

I had success with tri-tip, chuck cross rib, and eye of round cuts across different parties.

Pic is from a couple years ago, but I’m happy that I’m becoming the roast guy.

There’s worse ways to build a reputation.

I passed my Professional Qualifying Exam!!

It’s like a mini-dissertation defense for my clinical work. With this, my program is saying I’m ready to practice as a psychology intern.

Comps, dissertation proposal, internship apps, & Pro-Qual are all done.

Next up: interviews!

Look Ma, I’m a theology student!

This final interpretation project means I finally get to post a stack of books like the cool kids 😎

Thinking about starting a book club, lemme know if y’all want in.

Daughter started soccer today!

They tell me this is first step to getting to the Olympics, so y’all be thinking of us on our journey.

The Don’t Use IQ Like A Horoscope Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

Today’s the first day of class for Year 3 of my Clinical Psychology PhD.

What’s on my plate for this year?

Many more therapy clients & classes, teaching therapy + assessment to lower years, public thesis defense, and starting dissertation data collection.

We’re doing it, y’all.

No update to X for me yet.

Not sure if this means I’m the faithful remnant or if I’ve been left behind…?