by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 27, 2026 | History of Psychotherapy
From Freud, Jung, and Adler to the Somatic Fourth Wave Every school of therapy is a defense structure. It forms to manage an unbearable anxiety, it hardens into doctrine, and it eventually meets the limit of what it was built to avoid looking at. The history of the...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 25, 2026 | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health, Micro-nutrition and Vitamins for Mental Health
TAPROOT THERAPY COLLECTIVE Master Hub Page: "The Microglial Revolution" Patient-education framing. Divi Custom HTML / Code module ready. Paste this entire block into a single Divi Code module. Scoped under .tp-microglia so it will not affect the rest of the theme....
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 24, 2026 | Legal Updates for Therapists and Psychologists
What the 2026 ASWB Exam Changes Mean for Social Workers: A Clinician’s Breakdown On Monday, August 3, 2026, the test that stands between a social work degree and a social work license changes for the first time since 2018. If you are preparing to sit for the...
by Becky Milstead LPC | Jun 23, 2026 | Mental Health and Psychotherapy Resources in Alabama, Therapy Resources for Alabama
The Fractured Mirror: Why Individual Trauma and Family Chaos are the Exact Same System Modern life has collapsed the traditional boundaries that once protected human psychological well-being. Today, both individuals and families operate under an unprecedented level of...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 18, 2026 | Free Resources for Therapists in Private Practice, Therapy Resources, Tips and Tools
By Joel Blackstock, LICSW-S, MSW, PIP | Taproot Therapy Collective, Vestavia Hills, Alabama What Is Emotion? The Science, the Psychology, and the Soul of Our Feeling Life The question looks simple until you try to answer it carefully. What is an emotion? Where does it...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 18, 2026 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Philosophy for Therapists
The Neuroscientist Who Found Consciousness in the Feedback Loops of the Brain When you look at a face, what happens in your brain? The answer turns out to be surprisingly complex. First, visual information streams forward from your eyes through your visual cortex,...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 18, 2026 | Evidence Based Practice in Therapy, Mental Health and Psychotherapy Resources in Alabama, Mental Health and Trauma Therapy in Alabama, Therapy Resources for Alabama
Anna Freud’s Impact on Freud’s Biographical Scholarship The systematic efforts to control and sanitize the historical record surrounding Freud have had profound and lasting consequences for our understanding of psychoanalysis and its founder. The work of...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 8, 2026 | Alabama Local History, Psychology of Film and TV, Psychology of Media and Culture
Before there was a pink beard, there was a boy with an anger problem and a mother who knew what to do about it. Sebastian Kole grew up in Birmingham, the son of two preachers, raised by a father whose discipline ran close to military. When the anger started...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 6, 2026 | Psychology of Film and TV
This article is dedicated to all the millenials that watched Yellowstone with their Dad. A young man sits across from me and tells me he has watched all of Yellowstone four times. He is not a rancher. He has never owned an animal larger than a dog. He works a job...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 17, 2026 | Legal Updates for Therapists and Psychologists
In the spring of 2025, the Alabama State Department of Education released the first comprehensive update to the state’s school counseling standards in twenty-two years. The 2025 Comprehensive School Counseling and Guidance Model is a substantial document. It...
