In my most recent article, published in Journal of Humanistic Psychology, I present my most comprehensive view of psychotherapy yet… In “Cultivating the Therapeutic Moment”, I explore the logic of why a linear problem-solving approach to therapy and to our lives, simply won’t work… Therapy is not a linear step-by-step process, where we first define the problem, and then offer up the solution. Rather the process of psychotherapy is itself the discovery of what our problem really is.

Phenomenology is the study of a person’s experience from inside that person’s frame of reference. In this contribution to the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology I provide a philosophical framework for understanding how people’s experiences of the world are created. To make my case, I pull on insights from existential and phenomenological philosophers like Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and many others.

My doctoral dissertation was on the phenomenology of flirting. I sought to explore flirting as an experience of existing in-between identities, beyond one-self, and in the emergence of who one will be. In other words, I explored flirting as an event or state that takes you outside your ego and your ready-made constructs of yourself and lets you discover something new about who you are, what you feel, and what is possible.

This paper from a conference in Theoretical Psychology in Toronto, Canada, explores the tension between psychology and culture. When culture is viewed from a psychological perspective it is often reduced to individual differences across universal cultural dimensions, whereas when psychology is viewed from the perspective of culture it becomes its own cultural practice and not a meta-perspective from which to view the world.