PsyShrink Online Therapy & Private Practice

22/04/2026

Hope is supposed to save us. But sometimes it’s the thing keeping us exactly where we don’t want to be — waiting, enduring, staying. This poem came from years of sitting across from people for whom hope was the last thing standing between them and the truth.

From the Therapy Room

17/04/2026

This is not a cautionary tale about AI. It is a 3am conversation that most of us have had or will have. And an honest look at what happens when the one thing available to us reaches its limit — right at the moment we need it most. https://psyshrink.substack.com/p/are-you-ok

12/04/2026

08/04/2026

Another Emotional Xray from the therapy room for after the holidays. Perhaps it resonates.

From the Therapy Room

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