Boundary Expansive Therapy
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How Do You Want to Feel? A Therapist's Framework for Exploring New Kinks
Kink-exploration for my clients often surfaces desires, emotions, physical sensations and experiences that give them context and cues about themselves - with judgement. My therapeutic approach provides a validating space to safely dissect their needs and feelings around sex.
Why “Maxxing” Your Life Won’t Save You from Death
“Maxxing” culture is anxiety dressed up as a productivity hack. Therapeutic understandings of death denial shed light on how “maxxing” cannot do what it promises, and the failure of that promise tends to produce more anxiety, not less.
What The Hell is Differentiation and Why is it Crucial for Good Couples Therapy?
The differentiation model encourages agency, individuality, and autonomy between partners without sacrificing compassion or connection.
Sexual Trauma is a Spectrum
Understanding sexual trauma as spectrum of experiences helps broaden our ability to address it’s impacts in a therapeutic setting.
Existential Anxiety & Grief in the Face of Fascism
How to disembark from the hamster wheel of existential anxiety and grief amidst rising fascism and political unrest.
Can Friction-Maxxing Help Manage Anxiety?
Similar to friction-maxxing, ERP relies on consciously choosing a path with greater resistance for the specific purpose of building distress tolerance, and ultimately distress reduction, for things of which you are afraid.
Why PRT Alone is Not Enough
Exploring the prevalence of pain treatment in psychotherapy and why PRT alone underserves client needs.
Meet Caryn & Their Work
Learn more about my unique expertise in treating OCD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Sexual Dysfunction, Relationship Patterns and Self-Conceptualization with specific training in exposure therapy and pain reprocessing therapy known as PRT.
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