The Journal
Notes for therapists
who work at depth.
Notes from an intensive specialist therapist, mostly on pricing, and what gets in the way of charging for it properly.
Notes from an intensive specialist therapist, mostly on pricing, and what gets in the way of charging for it properly.
Six hours isn't six hours of continuous intensity, and it doesn't always mean one unbroken day. Here's how a well-paced intensive actually moves between depth, integration, and rest, including how the format flexes across time zones.
Read MoreThe fifty-minute hour was never a clinical decision, it was a scheduling one. Here's what actually changes in the nervous system when therapeutic work is held in concentrated time instead.
Read MoreUnderpricing doesn't just cost you the money on the table. It costs your presence with clients, and it quietly sets the ceiling for what the whole field believes deep work is worth. Here's what actually shifts it, whichever modality you trained in.
Read MoreSE moves at the pace of the nervous system, not the clock, and that stillness can quietly convince a practitioner the work isn't worth much. Here's why the opposite is true, and what actually shifts the pricing pattern underneath it.
Read MoreBrainspotting's stillness can make the work look like it isn't work at all, and the fear of being fully seen often costs more than the fear of pricing. Here's the pattern behind both, and what actually shifts it.
Read MoreEMDR sessions demand structure, real-time tracking, and sustained clinical intensity, often priced as though none of that were true. Here's the parts pattern behind the gap, and what actually closes it.
Read MoreGay Hendricks named the internal thermostat that pulls us back down whenever we exceed it. Seen through an IFS lens, that thermostat is a part, and it usually intensifies the deeper your training goes, not the other way round.
Read MoreThe more skilled someone becomes at holding other people's pain, the harder it often is for them to name their own price without flinching. Here's the parts-work explanation for why, and what actually shifts it.
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