Post-Traumatic Growth: The Science of Becoming Stronger Through Struggle 

Posted on June 30, 2026

For most of the history of clinical psychology, the conversation about trauma focused almost entirely on injury. The diagnostic categories, the research, the public understanding, all of it centered on what trauma takes from people and what symptoms it produces. The injury was the appropriate place to start, and the field needed to take it… Read More

The Window of Tolerance: How to Stop Being Triggered

Posted on June 23, 2026

Most people who feel hijacked by their own reactions have never been given an accurate explanation for what is actually happening to them. They get told to calm down, to be more mindful, to manage their stress, to think before they react. None of that addresses the underlying mechanism, which is why none of it… Read More

Complex PTSD vs. PTSD: What’s the Difference?

Posted on June 18, 2026

A significant portion of the people who come into my office carrying what they call PTSD do not actually have PTSD in the way that term is most commonly used. They have something related, often more pervasive, and frequently harder to recognize because it does not look the way trauma is typically portrayed. They have… Read More

Childhood Trauma in Adults: How Old Wounds Show Up Today

Posted on June 8, 2026

Most of the adults I work with do not believe they have childhood trauma. They had homes. They had parents who tried. They were not abused in the ways the word trauma typically conjures. And so when their adult lives begin to feel like they are running on a script they did not write, when… Read More

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