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Seattle Therapist

A Critical Incident

For the past 21 years, I have psychologically and emotionally supported resilience in people and organizations that endured traumatic and tragic losses to health or life. You can read more about my practice in this area here and here. The pandemic test The COVID-19 pandemic tests our ability to survive

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Streaming video psychotherapy: a longer term perspective

Psychotherapy via streaming video delivery is a small boon in this terrible COVID-19 nightmare-of-a-new-reality. It’s a vital healthcare service now being delivered. My own experience with this medium has some history, going back over eight years. My experiences with online therapy over the last nine (9) years has now been

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Comparing and competing

A brief break from the Narratives series to cover an important point about growth in committed relationships. It’s about relationship regression. Erotic push Erotic narratives push personal growth. Pushing personal growth means that regressions or setbacks will occur. People who push forward often get anxious (and try to manage it).

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Narratives, Part 3

Templates are like building blocks. They give people a way to understand and build personal and mutual narratives. Narratives can play out in various lengths of time, from minutes to years. They tend to make use of the same or similar templates over time. So in that way they can

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Narratives, Part 2

How narratives are formed Erotic narratives are not necessarily in story form (beginning-middle-end, etc.) The erotic doesn’t come from a simple, linear, logical or sequential place. And it doesn’t necessarily take a fixed shape. To be continued… Starting with clues Mystery is a well-established part of the DNA of erotic

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