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Both Sides of the Couch

Posts for clients share everything from how annoyingand therapists who smile and nod. Sometimes both at the same time.

Both POVsJune 5, 2026 · 4 min read

Spin for a Diagnosis

Why spend 45 minutes in an intake session when a single spin could tell you everything you need to know? Introducing the future of diagnostic efficiency.

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Therapist POVJune 5, 2026 · 5 min read

The Importance of Providing Accurate Belly Breathing Instructions

A therapist tells a client to breathe into their belly. The client does exactly that. This is a cautionary tale about the gap between clinical instruction and literal interpretation.

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Both POVsJune 5, 2026 · 5 min read

How to Know When Transference Has Gone Too Far

Transference is normal. Expected, even. But there is a moment — and every therapist knows it — when it crosses from therapeutic material into something that requires a very different kind of conversation.

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Client POVMay 28, 2026 · 4 min read

Things to Be Prepared for in a Therapy Session

Your last name will be mispronounced. The good chair will be taken if you're late. A treatment plan will be developed and never looked at again. You are not alone.

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Therapist POVMay 22, 2026 · 5 min read

Awareness Items for Therapists

On Valentine's Day, do not bring your coffee mug with hearts on it when your client has attachment issues. This is not a drill. This is experience.

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Therapist POVApril 24, 2026 · 3 min read

Freud Is Just Freed With U (You) Inside

A meditation on the father of psychoanalysis, the nature of projection, and why every therapist has at some point thought this exact thought.

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Therapist POVApril 17, 2026 · 5 min read

No Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings. A Manifesto.

We need to talk about the art in therapy offices. Specifically, we need to talk about what it communicates to clients who are already in a vulnerable state.

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Client POVApril 10, 2026 · 4 min read

The Waiting List: A Love Story

I called in January. They said three months. It is now June. I have grown as a person in the waiting. I am not sure that was the plan.

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Both POVsApril 3, 2026 · 3 min read

In Teletherapy, Always Check Your Background

The client saw the therapist's laundry. The therapist saw the client's toilet paper. Neither party has fully recovered. A guide for both sides.

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Both POVsMarch 27, 2026 · 5 min read

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The Diagnosis That Goes With Everything

Insurance companies love it. Therapists default to it. Clients Google it. A frank look at why CBT is the little black dress of mental health treatment.

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