Full Living

04/21/2026

Variety is the spice of a psychologically rich life. 👇🏻

A curious, alive inner universe needs populating! Feed it something new today. 🌶️

Our minds can get stuck in ruts — same thoughts, same routes, same inputs, same outputs. Novelty isn't indulgence. It's how we keep ourselves psychically alive.

New sensory experiences give the mind new material to think with, dream with, associate with. They create new neural pathways, new starting points, new connections to things we didn't know were connected.

A richly populated inner world is more flexible, more generative, more resilient. It has more to work with when life gets hard.

Don't let your world get too small.

04/19/2026

Good time of year to gather your CEU's and learn about this treatment and field, for your clients, and you!

Learn the tenets of play therapy and expressive arts for working with children and teens in this 5 core CE live webinar for therapists on July 21st. Sign up now!

04/16/2026

Winning requires dominating the other person, discrediting them, making their position smaller than yours.

That is no way to treat someone you love. And even when it works, what you're left with is a partner who feels defeated - which is not actually what you wanted.

The goal of a fight isn't to win. It's for the relationship to win. Which means both people need to be heard. Both people need to be understood. And the fastest way to be heard is to hear the other person first.

This is hard. It goes against every instinct when you're activated and certain you are right. Which is exactly why a good couples therapist is useful.

At Full Living, a free 15-minute call with our director gets you matched with the right therapist for your relationship. In-person, virtual, or hybrid across Philadelphia. Link in bio. 📲

04/14/2026

The problem with a lousy match is that it's the kind of discouraging that makes people wait another year before trying again.

At Full Living, when you reach out you get a free 15-minute conversation with me - our clinical director, a therapist with 30+ years of experience who knows every clinician on our team personally.

I make the match. Not an algorithm. Me.

It's a different experience. Link in bio. Or, DM me to begin the conversation. 📲

04/13/2026

"Without memory or desire" Wilfred Bion

Beyond proposed a further enrichment of Freud's concept of free floating attention, which is he asked us to separate it from our own stories about what we think is happening with our client and our own wishes for them.

DM or email me from my bio if you wanna find real therapy, with me, or with one of my therapist in Pennsylvania.

04/12/2026

When I have work that I know is gonna irritate me and that I don't wanna do and then I need to stay calm in order to do, I go to the Southampton Russian spa and bath and hang out all day eating great Russian food and soaking and sweating and dunking myself into hot and cold things while I work. We really do need to learn what works for us in life. When I have to do something I hate, I most definitely do it in a way that includes self-care.

04/09/2026

'What is wrong with me? Why do I keep doing this?' ⬇️

Most people ask that as a rhetorical question. A way to judge and shame themselves. Not really a question at all.

But imagine asking it differently. Softly. Curiously. With genuine conviction that there is a real, knowable answer buried somewhere in a long history of self-protection and old injuries.

Because there is. The behaviors that baffle you make complete sense - once you know the story underneath them.

That story is in your unconscious, and your unconscious is trying very hard to communicate with you.

A good therapist knows how to listen and help translate. DM me “MATCH” or click the email button on my profile to begin the conversation. 💬

04/07/2026

Not quite a retreat, not only a group, but a week long affordable experience!

It is not a week long retreat. But it is a week long-experience, with a couple virtual group experiences during the work week, in the evenings, and then two 6 hour days, that will feel very retreat like, but will have you headed home or to a hotel in the evenings.

That is how we make this experience accessible, financially and time-management wise! You will get to lean in hard to self care, but without clearing out a week of your life or your bank account.

Tons of details and ways to contact me in bio. 📲

04/03/2026

Just like the proverb that it's better to teach someone how to fish rather than simply give them fish, answers from therapists won't take you that far. We offer something radically more interesting. We offer a space for you to consider and contemplate, over time, where you can take lots of data points, as you live your life. We can be partners with you for exploring and considering the different stages of the alchemic process of each of your journeys of becoming. We're there to help you develop tools and muscles and skill sets and capacities for your journey, because your truths will need time to unfold. Send me a DM, or email me from my profile if you're looking to connect with a therapist in Pennsylvania, me included!

04/02/2026

Finances matter. When lots of sessions times are paid for at once, it can feel daunting enough to not notice the price per hour. It is worth noticing.

If you're curious, come talk to me. If it's the cost, we'll talk about the cost. If it's something else, we'll talk about that too.

Link in bio. 🔗

04/01/2026

If you are KAP-trained or AKP-curious as a clinician, our group experience is an excellent opportunity for experiential learning.

You will spend a week watching a leader in the field move a group of ten participants through preparation, medicine journeys, and integration, while seeing firsthand how differently the medicine can land in ten different nervous systems.

You will also leave with a felt, clinical understanding of what good preparation actually looks like, what it means to hold a group through a medicine journey, and what integration does in real time.

You will need many opportunities to explore this medicine as a tool. Make our group one of your lived experiences.

Becoming Your Own Ally — Over the week of April 20th to 26th, with live sessions Friday and Saturday in Glenside PA. DM me or link in bio. 📲

continuingeducation

03/30/2026

We don't have to be wise, or wildly healthy, or just filled with great ideas and advice and suggestions about how you might wanna live your life. But we bring is a very different set of skills that attempts to aid you and helping you figure out your particular answers for your particular dilemmas is understood by your particular value system, etc. etc. etc. We could never have answers for you. No one can. But we can help you develop the skills to learn how to find your answers. DM MA or email me from my profile if you would like to see about getting matched with a serious therapist in Pennsylvania.