Insight plays an important role in most psychotherapy. I am pretty solid in my belief that the most useful #Insights are the ones that arise following integration. – Insight does not produce change. Insight follows the neutralization of charged energy. The imposition of insight when there is still charge does little except produce more charge, generally in …

Most people engage in self-limiting cognitive activity in one form or another, to one degree or another. – Catastrophic thinking is a kind of self-limiting cognitive activity. It distorts our experience and perspective. And for those who journey with a mood disorder, this is no small thing. – Catastrophic thinking is like worry on steroids, …

Tell us about what’s lighting you up about who you serve. Since transitioning out of residential treatment and into a private practice setting this year, I’ve loved the ability to work more intentionally with men, specifically gay men and other sexual minority men. These men come to me often carrying the burden of heavy injunctions …

Learning to paddle an oar boat on the Colorado River was one of the funnest and most challenging things I ever did. I spent many summers in high school in a canoe, but a big oar boat in big water, that was new territory. – Sometimes, working with a client can feel like we are …

Non-dual states of empty consciousness are an indication and mechanism of change. Cultivating an awareness of these states contributes to decreased reactivity and increases in compassion, present-focused attention, and more skillful choices. – This principle sets AAIT apart from other approaches to psychotherapy, self-development, and personal wellbeing. We center the importance of nondual awareness and …