by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Mental Health and Psychotherapy Resources in Alabama, Mental Health and Trauma Therapy in Alabama, Therapy Resources for Alabama
The Biology of Safety: A Somatic Guide to Polyvagal Theory For most of the history of psychology, we treated the nervous system like a simple toggle switch. We believed we were either stressed or calm, in “fight or flight” or “rest and digest.”...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health, Discover + Heal + Grow: Taproot Therapy Collective Podcast Episodes, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Lifespan integration in Alabama, Symbolism and Meaning in Psychotherapy
For decades, mental health has been dominated by a “maintenance” model. We treat symptoms like mechanical failures: fix the serotonin levels, reframe the negative thought, smooth out the behavioral glitch. But for many clients, this approach feels like...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Psychology of Modernism Post Modernism and the Meta Modern, Psychology of Politics, Psychology Topics and Articles
We are living through a shift in human consciousness as profound as the invention of the printing press. But unlike the slow, linear transformation of the Renaissance, this shift is instantaneous, atomized, and hyper-networked. We are moving into a “Radically...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
In 1975, a self-described “hippie transpersonal counselor” began working at the A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment) Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona—the clinic associated with renowned psychic Edgar Cayce. Bill O’Hanlon ran growth groups...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
Two weeks before her wedding in 1988, Diane Poole Heller suffered a terrible car accident that left her with a traumatic brain injury and overwhelming trauma symptoms. What could have been simply a devastating personal tragedy instead became the catalyst for a...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
For over forty years in private practice, Laurence Heller, PhD, observed a pattern that traditional trauma therapy failed to address. Clients who had experienced early childhood trauma—neglect, abuse, emotional unavailability, or chaotic caregiving—didn’t just...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
When federal agents stormed the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in April 1993, twenty-one children emerged from the burning building traumatized by months of isolation, religious indoctrination, physical abuse, and the terror of a fifty-one day siege that...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology, Therapeutic Approaches and Techniques for Therapists, Therapy and Crisis Intervention for College Students in Alabama
In 1981, Judith Lewis Herman published a book that would be called “a landmark study” and “one of the most important works of the decade”: Father-Daughter Incest. Based on extensive research including interviews with forty incest survivors and...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
Gabor Maté: From Budapest Ghetto Baby to Voice of Compassion in Addiction’s Darkest Corners In the urine-soaked back alleys of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where sirens scream endlessly and the “Hastings shuffle,” a crack-driven...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Great Remembering: Why the Future of Psychotherapy is Just History Repeating Itself In the rush to modernize mental health treatment, the field of psychotherapy often suffers from a peculiar form of historical amnesia. We celebrate “new” modalities as...
