Unmasking After Halloween
Halloween masks come off on November 1. For many neurodivergent people, the other mask stays on. Libby Farren on what masking is, what it costs, and what it means to begin unmasking.
Tension (the Good Kind)
Clients often arrive wanting a verdict — condemnation or absolution. The more useful answer is usually both things at once.
When Nobody Believed You
Years of being dismissed by doctors leaves a mark that a diagnosis doesn’t erase. On medical gaslighting, chronic illness, and rebuilding trust in your own body.
The Art of the Face-to-Face
A chatbot has no unconscious and no moral imagination built on suffering. On why the person-to-person encounter matters more, not less, now.
Goodbye, Old Shoes
I had to throw away my old shoes this weekend. For a disabled person, breaking in new ones is more than an inconvenience — and it turns out it looks a lot like the work my clients and I do in therapy.
Starting Therapy in Michigan: A Practical Guide to Cost, Telehealth, and Your First Appointment
You do not need to have everything figured out before reaching out. This guide explains the practical decisions that can make starting therapy feel more manageable.
Finding an Affirming Therapist: Questions That Help You Choose
An affirming therapist should make room for your whole life. Here are practical questions about identity, communication, treatment, and cost that can help you choose.
More Than a Label
What are the limits of a label? A lesbian clinician on fluidity, self-definition, and why identity is a starting point, not a box.
The Wild Alchemy of Midlife
Midlife is when the unconscious insists on being heard. On changing course after 40, and why the people telling you not to rock the boat may be revealing their own fears.
Outside Ourselves
Everyone would be happier with more time among trees, and almost nobody manages it. On climate grief, ecological reading, and nature as both Other and Home.
The Damn Dishes
Doing the dishes sucks. On why housework stalls out, why “lazy” is the wrong word for it, and what helps when the pile-up starts to feel like a character flaw.
Trauma: What Helps?
Trauma is as common as mud. A look at how it registers in the nervous system, and what genuinely helps undo the patterns it leaves behind.