by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Aug 12, 2024 | Resources and Recommendations
How to fix Physician Burnout We Have a Clinician who Treats Physician Burnout at Taproot Therapy Collective Check Him out Here Physician burnout is a pervasive and pressing issue that threatens the well-being of healthcare professionals and the quality of patient care...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Aug 12, 2024 | Resources and Recommendations
How to Overcome Compassion Fatigue Compassion fatigue and secondary trauma can have a profound impact on the well-being and effectiveness of healthcare professionals. When healthcare workers are emotionally depleted and struggling with the weight of their experiences,...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Aug 12, 2024 | Resources and Recommendations
What to do about Physician Burnout as a Therapist As a therapist specializing in supporting healthcare professionals, I have witnessed firsthand the devastating impact of physician burnout. The unique challenges faced by physicians, including long hours, high-stakes...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Aug 9, 2024 | Resources and Recommendations
Memes for Therapy? In the digital age, memes have become an integral part of online communication, serving as a shorthand for expressing ideas, emotions, and cultural trends. From silly cat pictures to political satire, memes have evolved into a complex and...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Jul 21, 2024 | Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology of Design and Architecture, Trauma Treatment in Alabama, Trauma, Depth Psychology, and Social Work
Who was Maurice Merleau-Ponty? Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) was a French philosopher and phenomenologist who made significant contributions to the fields of phenomenology, existentialism, and the philosophy of perception. His work bridged the gap between...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Jun 16, 2024 | Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Trauma Treatment in Alabama, Trauma, Depth Psychology, and Social Work
Key Points: Psychotherapy is facing an identity and purpose crisis in the era of market-driven healthcare, as depth, nuance, and the therapeutic relationship are being displaced by cost containment, standardization, and mass-reproducibility. This crisis stems from a...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | May 2, 2024 | Evidence Based Practice and Research Psychology, Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology
Healing the Modern Soul is a series about how clinical psychology will have to change and confront its past if it is to remain relevant in the future. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Healing the Modern Soul Appendix Suffering Without Screaming In the first...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Dec 4, 2023 | Trauma, Depth Psychology, and Social Work
In this episode, Joel Blackstock interviews Carolyn Robistow, a life coach and brain spotting practitioner who works with clients from her boat. Carolyn talks about keeping a captain’s log, dealing with potential pirate threats, and her involvement in the...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Oct 11, 2023 | Neuroscience and the Brain, Trauma Treatment in Alabama, Trauma, Depth Psychology, and Social Work
How Therapists can Use the Pupil to Heal Trauma One of the reasons that I left EMDR and started to pursue brainspotting as the primary brain based medicine that I use as a provider was because of pupil dilation. Years ago when I was just starting out as a...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Oct 1, 2023 | Neuroscience and the Brain, Resources for Therapists and Private Practice, Trauma Treatment in Alabama
What is it that Brainspotting is doing in the brain? One of the questions that we get asked the most is how brain based medicine like brainspotting, EMDR, and ETT work in the brain. Like many discoveries before it we know often discover THAT something works and then...