Trysa Shulman & Associates

11/12/2025

for all psych professionals! join us!
https://clevelandpsychology.starchapter.com/meetinginfo.php?id=69&ts=1762967889

11/07/2025

read this over and over. it has many secrets in it.

Trust and abundance are what keep this space alive. I trust the kids to follow the non-negotiable rules while exploring, testing boundaries, and choosing what to work on. I trust them to feel their feelings fully and make their own creative choices, knowing that sometimes they’ll push edges—and ...

11/05/2025

How many times have I met with a therapist only to have that familiar disappointment hit within the first three sessions: this person cannot really help me. Or to realize: they are seeing this through the lens of their own life, which doesn’t really apply to my situation the way they think it does.

Some good reasons for being wary of starting therapy.

11/05/2025

thoughtful post - "The most radical change is moving from a situation that is completely stuck or spiraling downwards, to the slightest movement towards stabilization."
"It’s a paradox of care: if help feels imposed, it gets rejected, even when it’s desperately needed."

In my clinic, I often meet parents sitting in that painful space between love and helplessness. Watching a teenager who has gone quiet, distant, or locked away behind a screen. We talk about how to try getting back in sync and together we explore how to rebuild that lost connection. In this first re...

10/28/2025

I'm rewatching the Morning Show with hubby so that he can be caught up to watch the newest season. Tomorrow I'll share my reaction to a season 3 episode that flashes back to Bradley and Laura in Montana. Laura once again suggests that Bradley go to therapy. I think it makes too much sense why Bradley is wary of therapy.

10/27/2025

You give something up in order to gain something valuable.

And every time you give something up, you are choosing how to spend the limited time in which you can spend it.

10/06/2025

How do we know if something we were told we are incapable of is actually possible?

A few years ago, I heard a radio interview with a guy who wrote a book called Guitar Zero.

09/30/2025

A moment where one thing becomes another. "I kept telling him to be productive.." Check it out on Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/trysashulman/p/on-fruitless-labors?r=3npuwx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

09/03/2025

Please join us! Register today by emailing Leahincleveland@gmail.com for Psychology Grand Rounds: Dr. Ashley Gabelman will present how she uses ACT and ERP to effectively treat OCD. You don't want to miss this!

06/29/2025

There is so much in this person's story that speaks to the ideas I've been wanting to explore around the underlying causes of depression and debunking the idea that any mental illness is a static "thing" rather than a process of physiological and psychic interruption that needs to be uncovered to be healed.

Can you safely taper off psychiatric medications? And what are the potential harms of long-term psychiatric care?Laura Delano spent years as a professional p...

06/11/2025

The first episode of The Rehearsal definitely has therapeutic value. I'm not sure if I can say that about the rest of the show (I'm about 4 episodes in). But there's a DBT skill called Cope Ahead this is built on a lot of the same principles as the basis of that first episode, which was brilliant!

06/11/2025