by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 5, 2026 | Psychology, Therapeutic Approaches and Techniques for Therapists
When most people hear the word “hypnosis,” they picture a pocket watch swinging back and forth, a stage performer making volunteers cluck like chickens, or perhaps a sinister figure commanding their subject to do something against their will. These images,...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 3, 2026 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Ghost in the Machine Found For over a century, the sciences of the mind have been divided by a seemingly unbridgeable chasm. On one side stood psychoanalysis, the domain of subjective depth, unconscious drives, and the messy, symbolic language of the soul. On the...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 2, 2026 | Psychology
Someone makes an offhand comment. Maybe it wasn’t even about you. But something in your chest collapses. Your face flushes. You feel like you’ve been punched—not metaphorically, but actually, physically struck. Within seconds, you’re spiraling. What...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 31, 2025 | Brainspotting in Alabama: Revolutionary Trauma Therapy for Deep Healing, Evidence Based Practice in Therapy, Mental Health and Psychotherapy Resources in Alabama, Psychology Topics and Articles
How a modality dismissed as “pseudoscience” by academic critics became the treatment of choice for thousands of trauma clinicians—and what this schism reveals about the broken relationship between research and practice. The Fracture Between the Ivory Tower...
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 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Philosophy for Therapists
The Neuroscientist Who Asks How the Brain Knows What Is Real Imagine you are at a magic show. The performer vanishes before your eyes. You know, rationally, that the person is hiding somewhere. Yet no matter how much you reason, you cannot shake the visual impression...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Philosophy for Therapists
The Neuroscientist Who Gave Consciousness a Mathematical Formula By The Clinical Team at GetTherapyBirmingham.com Why Understanding the Integration of Experience Matters for Therapy Before we explore the revolutionary work of Giulio Tononi, we need to understand why...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists
Who Is Roger Penrose? A Nobel Laureate’s Quest to Prove Consciousness Cannot Be Computed By The Clinical Team at GetTherapyBirmingham.com On October 6, 2020, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Roger Penrose had won half of the Nobel Prize in...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
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 | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology
Why Understanding the Science of Consciousness Matters for Therapy Before we dive into the life and work of one of the most important consciousness researchers alive today, we need to address a fundamental question. Why should therapists care about neuroscience? Why...
