Therapists don’t know everything. Sometimes they are generalists, and sometimes they have focused their training on very particular techniques, illnesses, and challenges their clients might face: depression, anxiety, trauma, personality disorders, CBT, DBT, or EMDR....
The pandemic has moved many events online that we thought could only happen in the warm embrace of crowds, from music festivals to marriages. We may miss the company of people standing next to us, but in the case of support groups, their newfound online presence has...
If you are in need of shelter support, please contact us and we will do our best to connect you with resources. Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence are experiencing intensified abuse while trapped with their abusers at home under “stay-safer-at-home” mandates...
Contrary to widespread beliefs, transgender men experience higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV)* than transgender and cisgender women. This was FORGE’s groundbreaking finding from a 2011 survey of over one thousand transgender people. In the past few...
Defining Shame A possibly shameful confession: I chose to write a blog post about shame because I wanted to understand it and have an excuse to explore it fully. Like a distant lover, I know it well but don’t feel like I understand it at all. Yet when I searched for...
