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This weekly therapist blog is where we share our experiences of attuning to the work and to each other, as we journey through the living practices of therapy, mentorship, and community. You’ll find notes on the questions we’re grappling with, the collaborations we’re fostering, and the insights that inform our conversations with clients, colleagues, and communities. This is your invitation to stay with what emerges, together. Acceptance criteria: Intro section on the Blog page displays exactly as written above across all devices, with no remnants of the original offensive wording.

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Featured Articles

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Where We Begin: Relational Healing in a Time of Reckoning

This post speaks to the heart of our collective. It wasn’t born from a business plan, but from a friendship rooted in breath, silence, and slow trust. What we offer now as therapists is not just a service, but a relationship.
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The Revolution Begins in Relationship

When I first began watching Andor, I didn’t expect to see myself mirrored in a science fiction series. But there it was: the grief of fractured relationships, the loneliness of exile, the ache of being “too much” for some spaces and not enough for others. 
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LGBTQ-Affirming Peer Consultation: Mentorship for Therapists Supporting Trans and Queer Clients

Between Laura Hoge, LCSW, LICSW, RSW and me, we’ve spent nearly two decades providing gender-affirming and LGBTQ-affirming care. We are both deeply rooted in queer community.
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Supporting Your Transgender Child in a Time of Fear, Change, and Uncertainty

If your child just came out as transgender or gender diverse, you might be feeling like the ground beneath your feet has suddenly shifted. Whether this news came as a total surprise or something you sensed for a long time, it’s normal to feel disoriented.
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SP-Informed Supervision and Peer Consultation: Mentorship for Therapists Exploring This Somatic Approach

We came to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® (SP) — developed by Dr. Pat Ogden and the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI) — the way we’ve come to much of our work: together.
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Why Therapists Need Therapy: Holding Space Without Losing Ourselves

“Wait—why do you see a therapist?” my client asked after I shared a quote from the therapist I’ve been seeing weekly for years. II mention that I, too, sit on the other side of the couch.
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Mentorship for Therapists: Relational, Experiential, and LGBTQ-Affirming Clinical Supervision and Peer Consultation

We’ve been learning together for a long time. Since meeting as yoga students two decades ago, our work—and our friendship—has been shaped by deep practice, ongoing study, and the kind of conversations that only happen when trust runs deep.
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Burnout, Boundaries, and Being Human: A Practice of Care from the Inside Out

When we started as therapists, we imagined future versions of ourselves who were better rested, more healed, and less shaken by the world as it is. These idealized selves were calm under pressure, confident in our boundaries, and endlessly capable of being with others’ pain.