Mental Health Blog

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

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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The Six Archetypes
September 14, 2026

How the Virtuoso Forms: Achievement as Love

Kevin was twenty-six years old and sitting in my office for the third time when he finally said something that had not been prepared. The...

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The Six Archetypes
September 9, 2026

How the Mirror Forms: The Quiet Erasure

Johann came home from school on a Thursday with mud on his sneakers and a report card in his backpack that he had been thinking...

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Attachment Theory Foundations
September 7, 2026

Attachment Theory Is Not About Blaming Your Parents

The Virtuoso: Achievement as a Substitute for Being Loved She came in with her curriculum vitae folded in her purse, which she mentioned in passing...

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Attachment Theory Foundations
September 2, 2026

The Wagon and the Rut: A Metaphor for How Patterns Form

The Mirror: Becoming Whoever the Room Needs A man I’ll call Daniel told me in our first session that he was very good at relationships....

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Attachment Theory Foundations
August 31, 2026

Attachment vs. Temperament: What’s Wired In vs. What Was Shaped

How the Rose Forms: When the Source of Safety Was Also the Source of Fear There is a particular family photograph I have been told...

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Attachment Theory Foundations
August 26, 2026

Why You Can Be Secure With One Person and Anxious With Another

The Rose: The Pattern of Reaching and Pulling Away at Once She had ended three good relationships in the past six years. Not because the...

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