Do you have any residual pain from work, automobile, or surgery-related injuries?” This question on my client intake form can lead me to aspects of pain and healing that I have encountered, but have not seen mentioned in the general hypnosis literature. Blocked unfelt emotions, created at the time of a physical trauma, […]
In a bustling neighborhood in southeast Portland, situated between an e-cigarette store and a barbershop, sits a strange little business called Float On. Each day, around fifty people walk through the shop’s front door and into a brightly colored lobby full of plants and couches. They check in with a desk attendant (that’s […]
Let’s start at the beginning. Now that it’s typed, that reads like a cliché, but when faced with writer’s block, it’s as good a place as any to start. That’s the lesson — just start. You know me and my tendency toward the paralysis of analysis. You know I once put on my bedroom wall, with not a […]
Some years ago, as a result of my personal vulnerability from “less than ‘good-enough’ therapy,” I began to offer a service to patients and therapists: acting as an interventionist to the therapeutic alliance. If there is a powerful impasse in a “treatment” or some kind of stoppage to the therapy’s progress, I’m called in. At […]
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