by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 4, 2026 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy
Written by the clinical team at Taproot Therapy Collective, a Birmingham psychotherapy practice specializing in somatic and trauma-focused modalities. Our clinicians are trained in body-based approaches including Brainspotting, EMDR, and somatic trauma resolution....
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 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy, Comparative Religion for Therapy
How an anthropologist’s radical theory of lines, meshworks, and making can transform how we understand healing, resistance, and the craft of becoming ourselves. The Tyranny of Destinations Consider how we typically narrate a life: born in 1985, graduated...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 30, 2025 | Legal Updates for Therapists and Psyychologists, Models of Psychotherapy, Psychology Topics and Articles, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The discipline advanced not through consensus, but through violent collisions of opposing worldviews—tectonic shifts where the very definitions of “mind,” “cure,” and “human nature” were contested with ideological fervor and...
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 29, 2025 | History of Psychotherapy, Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology Topics and Articles
A Genealogical History of How External Forces Transformed the Therapy Patient—and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever The history of psychotherapy is often told as a history of “great men”—Freud, Jung, Rogers, Beck—and their competing theories of mind....
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 26, 2025 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
The Absent King: How the Father Wound Creates a Crisis of Authority In the architecture of the human psyche, the Father Archetype is the pillar of structure, law, and authority. In its healthy form, the Father provides the “container” for the soul’s...
