If someone asked you to name the core tool of your clinical practice, what would you say? EMDR? CBT? Your favourite assessment measure?

Maybe it's none of the above. And maybe it’s you.

The caring self, who you are in the therapy space, is the primary therapeutic instrument. And like any instrument, it needs tending and tuning.

In this episode, I walk through the Cycle of Caring, a four-phase framework that maps the rhythm we move through with every client: empathic attachment, active involvement, felt separation, and re-creation.

I explore what happens in our nervous systems during each phase, where moral injury and schema patterns show up, and why the phases we skip most, felt separation and re-creation, are exactly the ones that make the rest of the cycle sustainable.

This episode is for you if you’ve ever clos ...