Columbus Mind-Body Counseling

05/02/2026

"Psychotherapy takes time. It follows a dose-response curve. It takes more than 20 sessions, or about six months of weekly therapy, before 50 percent of patients show meaningful improvement. It takes more than 40 sessions for 75 percent of patients to improve."

Patients and therapists should ignore new guidelines for treating trauma.

04/05/2026

I feel this personally and professionally. Love Shedle’s reflections and insights. I’m looking forward to attending a case consult day with him this month.

02/16/2026

As therapists, we’re all navigating clients’ use of AI for support, understanding, and guidance. For some clients, it’s been a useful tool to use in between sessions. And, if understanding was all it took to heal, I’d gladly be out of a job.

“You cannot think your way out of pain. No amount of digging, no answer, no justification could fill the hole inside me.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/entrenousautres/p/i-talked-about-my-feelings-every?r=1mysgh&utm_medium=iosnc

I wasn’t dependent on ChatGPT. I was attached to the idea that if I understood my pain entirely, I would finally stop hurting.

12/13/2025

Love helping people use their self-awareness to support deeper integration, connection, and meaningful shifts in how they move through their lives.

You’ve done the inner work. You understand the origins of your patterns.
And still, the patterns return.

This isn’t a failure of effort or insight. Awareness can be meaningful, but it doesn’t automatically shift the survival strategies that formed early on.

Insight alone doesn’t reorganize longstanding patterns. Change often happens as we develop more capacity to stay connected with ourselves in the present—especially in the places where we once had to disconnect.

Over time, new relational and internal experiences start to register. Possibilities open. Longstanding patterns loosen. What once felt fixed becomes more flexible.

10/19/2025

The number of times a client shares something along the lines of “I know I’m all over the place today” and I don’t feel they are. I feel there’s just a lot of complexity unfolding.

10/05/2025

So much conversation about the pros and cons of AI in the therapist spaces I frequent. As with many things, there’s lots of complexity and nuance to consider. I appreciate what this article brings up about it.

Artificial intelligence therapy can't replicate the human need to exist in another's mind. We need real people to hold our stories, provide genuine boundaries, and offer lived experience.

09/30/2025

This weekend I learned about The Scatter Joy Project while visiting The Roosevelt Coffeehouse for the first time. There’s a valid amount of fear and despair these days and there’s also hope and joy and people doing incredible things to make their part of the world a better place.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPMLmvUEUg7/?igsh=M3VuOGt6eDdmdHN0stsiietys

09/05/2025

If you wonder why so many therapists, including myself, don't take insurance, here are some of the reasons why.

by Dr. K. Hixson

08/31/2025

Loving the book We Can Do Hard Things. Such a rich reflection.

08/31/2025

I love that NARM works with our present time adaptations. We don’t need to go in an archeological dig into the past to heal.

It’s not always what happened that keeps our suffering alive.
It’s how we adapted in order to survive what happened—or what didn’t happen.

NARM shifts the focus from the trauma itself to the adaptations we made in response—adaptations like shutting down, people-pleasing, becoming hyper-independent, among others.

These patterns protected us then. But now they may be keeping us stuck in cycles we’re ready to move beyond.

In NARM, healing developmental trauma is about honoring how we adapted... and opening space for something new to emerge.

08/29/2025

“The key isn’t to feel good all the time, it’s to go on living alongside whatever you feel.” ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNoO_sQvX5_/?igsh=dzl4cXI3dXc0NmFk