by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Mar 24, 2026 | Industrial Organisational Psychology
You walk into a meeting room and something feels wrong. Nobody has said anything inappropriate. The agenda appears reasonable. Your colleagues seem professionally composed. Yet somewhere beneath conscious awareness, your body has already made a decision. Your...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Mar 7, 2026 | Depth Psychology Approaches and Techniques, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Mythology and Therapy
The search for psychological integration is not a modern invention.Long before Freud, before the DSM, before trauma-informed care became a clinical category, ancient civilizations developed sophisticated technologies of the sacred designed to induce profound...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Mar 4, 2026 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Psychology
You’re sitting across from a patient. They’re talking about something ordinary. Scheduling conflicts. Work stress. Nothing obviously emotional. And then you feel it. A heaviness in your chest. A tightness in your throat. Something is coming. Thirty seconds...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 3, 2026 | Mental Health and Psychotherapy Resources in Alabama, Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Psychology
The Internal Civil War: Understanding and Treating the AuDHD Brain A Clinical Guide to the Autism-ADHD Intersection There is a particular kind of exhaustion that defies simple explanation. It is not the fatigue of overwork, nor the weariness of too little sleep. It is...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 2, 2026 | Psychology
You know your triggers. Most of us do. The sharp tone of voice that makes your stomach clench. The email notification that spikes your heart rate. The family gathering that leaves you exhausted for days. But do you know your glimmers? If you’ve spent any time in...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 2, 2026 | Psychology
Is Bed Rotting Self-Care or a Trauma Response? A Somatic Therapist’s Guide You’ve seen the TikToks. Someone cocooned in blankets, snacks scattered across the mattress, laptop glowing with whatever show they’re half-watching. The hashtag reads...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 30, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists
The clinical management of Major Depressive Disorder and Treatment-Resistant Depression is currently undergoing a paradigm shift of historical significance. For the better part of the last half-century the field of psychiatry has operated largely under the monoamine...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 30, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists
The clinical landscape of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder treatment is undergoing its most significant transformation since the introduction of prolonged exposure therapies. For decades our dominant therapeutic paradigm operated on a top-down model which assumed that...
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 | 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...
