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Notes from the practice

Occasional essays on therapy and the work of becoming more fully alive.

Essay August 14, 2026

Somebody Sit in My Chair

I named my practice after a Stephen Sondheim song. Here's what that song has to do with couples therapy, and with going toward pain rather than around it.

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