PsyShrink Online Therapy & Private Practice

24/03/2026

Loneliness is now a bigger health risk than smoking 15 ci******es a day.

We have anti-smoking campaigns.
We have ni****ne patches.
We have support groups.
We have almost nothing for the lonely.

And the lonely are everywhere — often the most capable, most connected, most high-functioning people in the room.
If this is you right now — you're not broken. You're having a very human response to a world that got harder to belong to.
Be kind to yourself. 🌿

12/03/2026

Every therapist knows this moment. Every client has lived it. The night before. The almost-cancelled appointment. The heart pounding in the waiting room. The what ifs. Full poem on Substack.

From the Therapy Room

08/03/2026

Happy international women’s day!

If I’m honest,

08/03/2026

Wow—just wow.

08/03/2026

One day a year.

And we’ll still walk to our cars with keys between our fingers.

“Be a Lady They Said” — poem by Camille Rainville.

This beautiful, painful, truthful poem went viral after Harvey Weinstein was arrested. I have not met one woman who can’t relate.

6 years on. What’s changed?

And what if the problem isn’t us?

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03/03/2026

What courage can actually look like. Full piece on Substack— https://open.substack.com/pub/psyshrink/p/courage?r=6p9t24&utm_medium=ios

19/02/2026

I write what I call emotional X-rays — poems drawn from the therapy room that try to capture what it actually feels like to struggle. This one is about depression. The exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix. The internal bargaining. The challenge of just getting out the door. If you've been there, you'll recognise it. If someone you love has been there, maybe this helps.

From the Therapy Room

17/02/2026

Food for thought: A culture that profits from your deficiency.
Every advertisement, every transformation story, every algorithm—designed to show you what you lack.

The external messages sync with your internal voice because they're selling the same story:
You're broken, but fixable.
For a price.

But the feeling of "not enough" isn't fixed by achieving more.
It's addressed by recognizing the pattern.

The feeling isn't evidence something is wrong with you.
It's evidence you internalized messages designed to keep you striving, purchasing, performing.

The work isn't becoming "enough."
The work is recognizing you always were.

13/02/2026

She kept telling herself she could handle it. Her friends agreed she could handle it. Her family said she could handle it. We trained her so well to handle men's behavior that she walked right into a hotel room with her heart pounding, thinking she should be able to handle this too. Full poem on Substack https://substack.com/

13/02/2026

I think there are many people who can relate to this…

Fühlen Sie sich innerlich getrieben und ohnmächtig? Warum mentale Erschöpfung entsteht – und wie Sie Schritt für Schritt Selbstwirksamkeit stärken.

12/02/2026

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A new analysis shows that moving to music with others can be a powerful way to ease symptoms of depression. Unlike walking or yoga, dance engages the brain in a unique “neurochemical symphony,” blending physical activity with joy, connection, and self-expression. Here's why it helps and how to harness it, according to experts: https://on.natgeo.com/4cgaQxw