Mind Body Dynamic Psychotherapy

12/01/2025

11/21/2025

Meet Joey Tran!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRK2xwxETJA/

11/20/2025

Our new show, Delightfully Disheveled: because life and love are messy!", is coming soon!

Join me, Dr. Sid(aka grandpa, who can sleep anywhere at any time), and friends.

To be notified when the show and episodes are posted, just sign up here.
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11/13/2025

The Myth of the Perfectly Attached Adult

(And Why It’s Hurting Us)

Somewhere along the way, secure attachment stopped being a simple way to understand how we got shaped and turned into something people feel they are supposed to achieve. It became a lifestyle. A personality makeover. I hear people talk about it the way they talk about clean eating or whatever the latest minimalism trend is. As if you can tidy up your past and suddenly come out as this perfectly attached adult who never gets triggered or clingy or distant or confused. It makes no sense. And honestly, it is making people feel worse.

Once you start treating attachment theory like a moral scorecard, you fall right back into the same patterns that created the insecurity in the first place. You start striving again. You start performing. You start imagining that somewhere out there is a level of “secure” you can finally reach and then life will become smooth and manageable. Almost like a psychic insurance policy. But that is not how human beings work. Attachment is not something you earn by doing enough self work. It is something that forms through history, through your nervous system, through the actual relationships you are in today.

And if you look closely, the chase for perfect security is often just another way to avoid yourself. Another way to manage your feelings instead of meeting them. Another way to stay in control instead of allowing real contact.

11/10/2025

Men and Addiction: The Crisis We Still Don’t Talk About

Increasingly, men are struggling today.
Some are reaching out for help. Many are not.

While some of the old stigma around men’s mental health has eased, a new kind of pushback has taken its place.
Public conversations about masculinity have become so charged that many men retreat further. They worry that their pain will be dismissed, misunderstood, or turned into another argument about what kind of man they should be.

The result is silence. And silence still kills.

One in five men met criteria for a substance use disorder last year.
Thirteen percent had an alcohol use disorder.
Men die from overdoses two to three times more often than women.

Behind those numbers are real lives—men who feel cut off, ashamed, or unseen. Some keep working. Some drink. Some disappear behind a screen. Most never admit to how lonely they really are.

You cannot outwork grief. You cannot outperform emptiness.
The men I see are not broken. They are tired of carrying pain alone.
And beneath that exhaustion is longing—for connection, honesty, and a life that feels real again.

We need a new way of speaking about men’s suffering. One that is neither defensive nor ideological, but deeply human.

11/06/2025

T for Thursday, T for Team spotlight.
I am delighted to introduce you to Henry Yuen.

Henry is particularly drawn to working with trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, identity exploration, and issues of self-worth.

You can check him out here!

Questioning who you are, who you love, or how to live more authentically — while feeling unsure where you’ll be accepted?

11/04/2025

So many men are just so used to wearing a mask that they neglect & ignore the one wearing it.

10/30/2025

It's T for Thursday & T for Team.
I am delighted to introduce you to John Krivy!

John has a special interest in those who have executive function challenges; ADD/ADHD etc.

If you or someone you know struggles with these kinds of issues, please check him out.

John's therapy approach is a synthesis of psychodynamic and experiential strategies, skillfully adapted from a variety of therapeutically beneficial modalities.

10/27/2025

Been thinking a great deal about AI and therapy. And how more people are turning to AI for therapy and how it's becoming one of its primary uses, in this article, I propose some limits and limitations of AI, and perhaps an expanded view of what therapy has to offer.

https://medium.com//the-algorithmic-couch-what-we-lose-in-the-shift-to-ai-therapy-bef791a581c9

10/25/2025

The more we try to master life, the more we become mastered by our fantasies of mastery.

10/23/2025

There is a current addiction in our culture.

10/23/2025

“Talk therapy doesn’t work!”
Says who?

A short reflection

Says who?