Am I Giving Up or Being Smart?
You're thinking about going home. You've been thinking about it for a while. Maybe you've even looked at flights, apartments, job listings back home.
Read more →Identity, Perfectionism, and Self
Essays on the structures underneath who you take yourself to be. The impostor experience. Losing your sense of self after a move, or at midlife. The question of who you are when the role drops away. Start with whichever one sounds like you. If perfectionism is what brings you here, see therapy for perfectionism.
I Don't Recognize Myself Anymore
You used to know who you were. Not in some grand, philosophical way, in a practical way. You knew what you liked. You knew how you responded to things.
Read more →The In-Between: Postdoc Life and Mental Health
Too qualified to be a student, too precarious to feel like you've arrived. A therapist on the psychological weight of postdoctoral life.
Read more →The Loneliness of Competence
The most capable people in the university are often the most quietly stuck. A therapist explains the hidden psychological cost of academic success.
Read more →What a Midlife Crisis Is Actually About
It's not about the sports car. It's not about aging. It's about discovering, maybe for the first time, that you've been living someone else's life. A therapist explains what a midlife crisis actually is.
Read more →Why Impostor Syndrome Doesn't Care How Successful You Are
You've tried listing your accomplishments. You've tried the affirmations. None of it touches the feeling. A therapist explains what impostor syndrome actually is and why the usual advice makes it worse.
Read more →What Clients Say
“I came in thinking I knew what my issues were. I'd been over them a hundred times. But those were just the things I could already see. Aaron helped me notice what I couldn't, and that's where everything actually started to change.”
- M.J.
“I'd been in and out of therapy for years. Different therapists, different approaches, none of it really stuck. Aaron helped me understand more in a few months than all of them combined. And he talked to me like a normal person, not like all this weird therapy-speak.”
- S.A.
“A few years ago I suddenly developed prolonged panic attacks but couldn't begin to understand what had caused them. Having been in therapy in the past, and being a counseling intern student, I felt I had exhausted my resources trying to figure out “What is wrong with me?” I can honestly say Aaron provides a form of counseling that is difficult to find anywhere else regarding efficacy. Not only has his approach been effective, but he also has provided me a safe space to explore aspects about myself I may not otherwise have felt able to. I cannot recommend him enough as he has helped me feel more myself than ever before.”
- K.R.
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