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Insights from 25 years in the room.

Practical perspectives on anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and the work of building a life worth living — from a clinician who's been doing this since before telehealth was a word.

Announcement

Introducing XAI Therapy™ — A Transparency Standard for AI in the Therapy Room

The name goes on the thing: every insight explainable, every decision human, every record the client’s own. What exists today, and what I’m deliberately not announcing.


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For Clinicians

XAI Therapy, Explained for Clinicians: What It Is and What to Ask

The practical guide — what explainable AI-assisted practice looks like week to week, the timing signal you’ve never had, and five questions to ask any AI tool near your clients.


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AI & Therapy

The Glass Box: Why I’m Building Therapy Tools That Explain Themselves

Therapy has a memory problem, and the AI industry’s answer is a black box. A 25-year clinician on the other road — instruments whose explanations are their shape, and a framework called XAI Therapy™.


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Recovery

The Second Sea: Why I Built a Recovery App Shaped Like a Voyage

A therapist and freediver on why recovery tools became a ship, a crew of imperfect robots, and a sea you learn to cross — the story behind Rehabit, and the rules a clinician wouldn’t bend.


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Getting Started

How to Start Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide for First-Timers

25 years of clinical experience distilled into one practical guide — how to find the right therapist, what to expect in your first session, and how to stop letting uncertainty get in your way.


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Clinical Supervision

How to Find a Good Clinical Supervisor: What LPC Associates Need to Know

Experience, systems, and self-awareness — the three things that separate a career-shaping supervisor from a box-checking one. From a clinician who's been on both sides of the table for 25 years.


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In the pipeline

More articles coming soon.

No algorithms. No generic advice. Real clinical perspective from 25,000+ client sessions.

Anxiety

How to Start Therapy When You're Not Sure You Need It

The single question that tells you more than any quiz or checklist ever could.

Trauma

What Trauma-Informed Care Actually Means — and What It Doesn't

The term is everywhere. Most people using it have never worked with a traumatized child at 2am.

Addiction

Recovery Isn't About Willpower. Here's What It's Actually About.

25 years and thousands of clients taught me the one thing the recovery industry gets consistently wrong.

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Therapy that keeps working between sessions.

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The story begins in paint

A boy nobody kept built an island
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The opening of L.A.N.C.E. is a living picture book — fifteen painted chapters, narrated like a film, every frame moving. This is the art your clients meet in the first minute.

Gullhaven, 1929 — a boy nobody kept
Gullhaven, 1929 — a boy nobody kept
He built a way out of what they threw away
He built a way out of what they threw away
The crossing — the emptiest part of the map
The crossing — the emptiest part of the map
His first friend — and lit its eyes
His first friend — and lit its eyes
Every island is somebody's whole heart
Every island is somebody's whole heart
The keeper, in his own image
The keeper, in his own image
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