Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
The Strange Situation Experiment, Explained The room was small and deliberately ordinary. A chair, some toys on the floor, a one-way mirror. The year was...
Read Article →The Secure Base: What Every Child Needs and What Happens Without It I want you to watch something with me. It is not dramatic. Nothing...
Read Article →Why Your Working Model Feels Like the Truth (and Isn’t) A man I’ll call Thomas came to me after his girlfriend of three years ended...
Read Article →The Internal Working Model: The Relationship Map You Don’t Know You’re Using A woman I’ll call Nina came to see me after her second divorce....
Read Article →700 Synapses Per Second: What Happens in a Baby’s Brain There is a photograph on the bookshelf in my waiting room. It was there when...
Read Article →Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together: How Your Brain Was Built by Childhood I sat with a man once who had been in a bad...
Read Article →You Are Not Broken, You Are Patterned: Why That Distinction Changes Everything She had been in therapy before, the woman who came to see me...
Read Article →The Four Attachment Styles, Explained Without Jargon A man I’ll call David sat in my office one afternoon and told me that he had taken...
Read Article →What Is Attachment Theory? A Therapist’s Plain-English Guide She came in on a Thursday morning in early March, a woman I’ll call Claire, and she...
Read Article →You have a good job by most measures. Steady pay, decent hours, reasonable people. And you sit at your desk every day in a kind...
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