Mental Health Blog

Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.

The Six Archetypes
October 19, 2026

The Sentinel as a Partner: What It’s Like to Be in a Relationship With One

Loving a Sentinel: Understanding the Need for Reassurance He came to the session alone, which was unusual. His wife, Mara, had been the one who...

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The Six Archetypes
October 14, 2026

The Sentinel in Love: When Vigilance Is Your Love Language

The Sentinel in Love: Why Quiet Feels Like Abandonment She kept a log. Not deliberately, not as a strategy, just in the way that very...

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The Six Archetypes
October 12, 2026

Healing the Island Pattern: Learning to Reach

Healing for the Island: Admitting the Need Exists He said it very quietly, at the end of a session, almost as an afterthought. We had...

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The Six Archetypes
October 7, 2026

The Island at Work: Competence Without Vulnerability

The Island at Work: Impressive, Reliable, and Unreachable The performance review came back glowing, the way it always did. He had exceeded his targets in...

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The Six Archetypes
October 5, 2026

The Island as a Partner: What It’s Like to Be in a Relationship With One

There was a man I’ll call David who spent seven years with a partner he genuinely loved, who would describe their relationship to anyone who...

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The Six Archetypes
September 30, 2026

The Island in Love: When Closeness Costs Too Much

The call came on a Sunday afternoon, when Casey was forty-three and her sister was on her way back from a ski weekend and wanted...

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The Six Archetypes
September 28, 2026

Healing the Empath Pattern: Learning to Receive

The first stage of healing for an Empath is learning to receive. That sentence is short and it sounds manageable and I want to be...

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The Six Archetypes
September 23, 2026

The Empath at Work: The Cost of the Invisible Load

She started at the nonprofit fifteen years ago as a program coordinator, and by the time she came to see me she was managing a...

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The Six Archetypes
September 21, 2026

The Empath as a Partner: What It’s Like to Be in a Relationship With One

There is a woman I work with, I’ll call her Theresa, who has been in a relationship with an Empath for six years. She did...

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The Six Archetypes
September 16, 2026

The Empath in Love: When Giving Is the Only Language You Know

Erin came to therapy in her late thirties already fluent in the language of her own pattern. She had read the books. She could describe,...

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