Dear fellow humans, Let’s talk about our middle emotional experiences — those normal, everyday mood fluctuations that live in the wide, ordinary, very human space between ecstatic and depressed. Because somewhere along the way, many of us started believing that if we aren’t happy and energized, something must be wrong. Or maybe you’re like me and you’ve experienced clinical depression before, so now there’s a sensitivity — even anxiety — around any low emotional state. If you’re not “up,”...

Good therapy unfolds with a good fit between the therapist and the client. A therapist shares her personal experiences with her own good therapist.

Dear Fellow Humans, I recently traveled to Holland for an experiential psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy training retreat, expecting to...