Mental Health Blog

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

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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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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