Writing
Notes from the confluence
Occasional essays on how psychiatry works, how it fails, and how to be a good steward of your own mind. Written for patients and curious readers, not for colleagues.
When healing becomes identity
Years of kind, supportive therapy can leave a person more fluent in their pain and no closer to a life. On the crossing, why it terrifies, and why navigating it is the heart of mental health.
Why the evaluation here takes two sessions
The most consequential decisions in psychiatric care are made at the very beginning. Here is what changes when the beginning is given two sessions instead of thirty minutes.