Substance use and family experience
Writing that grew out of doctoral research into how families understand and respond to substance use, and what changes when their knowledge is treated as expertise.
Publications and Resources
Publications and therapeutic resources
Writing, research, and practical resources for people doing the long work of understanding: clinicians, students, families, and curious humans.
Coming soon
An 84-card therapeutic deck and guidebook
A set of 84 cards and an accompanying guidebook for reflection, preparation, and integration, drawn from more than 26 years of clinical practice. Designed for practitioners working with clients, and for anyone sitting with their own questions about grief, change, and what comes next.
It is still in development. Add your email and I will let you know when it is ready, before it is announced anywhere else.
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Why I write
Research and writing are extensions of the same work I do in a counselling room: ways of staying curious, questioning what we think we know, and contributing ideas that might help us care for one another more skillfully.
Much of what matters in this work does not fit neatly into a session or a journal article, so I write toward it from several directions at once, in academic and professional publications, essays, and practical resources for practitioners and for people navigating these experiences themselves.
Themes in the work
Grief, loss, and identity change
Essays and resources on losses that are hard to name, grief that does not resolve on schedule, and the shifts in identity that follow.
Psychedelic preparation and integration
Therapeutic resources in development for preparation, harm reduction, and integration of psychedelic and non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Relational and narrative practice
Practitioner-facing material on narrative and collaborative approaches, and on bringing lived knowledge and professional knowledge into conversation.
Where to read the work now
New books, workbooks, and therapeutic resources will be listed here as they are published. In the meantime, Field Notes is where the thinking appears first, and the letters are where new work is announced.