Category: Trauma and Healing
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Intimate Asynchrony: Navigating Misalignment in Relationships
I use the term “Intimate Asynchrony” to refer to the misalignment, discordance, or lack of harmony that naturally occurs in intimate relationships. Connection happens across several domains, including emotional, physical, intellectual, and experiential. Asynchrony occurs when partners find themselves operating on different frequencies in one or more of these areas. This “out of sync” feeling…
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The Body’s Timeline: Navigating Intimate Asynchrony When Trauma is in the Room
When one or both partners have a history of trauma, Intimate Asynchrony is not just a scheduling issue; it is a survival mechanism. Trauma lives in the body, and it operates on a timeline that often disregards the present moment.
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ACT for ADHD: How Acceptance Can Boost Your Productivity
Stop fighting your brain. At Andrew Robertson Therapy, I use and integrative approach with ACT to help adults with ADHD trade the “shame spiral” for psychological flexibility. Stop wasting energy on self-criticism and start using it for values-based action. Ready to be productive?
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Emotional Numbness: How to Reconnect and Be Present with Your Family
Are you physically present with family, but mentally miles away? Do you love your family, but struggle to access that feeling? This “checked out” experience of emotional numbness is not a sign of moral failure, it is a chronically exhausted and overwhelmed nervous system. Let’s change that together.
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Why One Isn’t Enough: The Difference Between ADHD Coaching and Therapy
ADHD Therapy vs Coaching; a breakdown of the difference and why an integrated approach is often the most effective path to stability and confidence. Stop trying to force yourself into a system that doesn’t fit your brain. Integrated ADHD Support helps you stop focusing on trying and start focusing on doing. Lets get to work.
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The Silent Struggle: Why Men Wait So Long to Start Therapy (And Why It’s Time to Stop)
The pressure to be “fine…” The silent struggle that prevents men from seeking assistance is real. If you’re a man in today’s world, you’ve been given an unspoken playbook: Be strong. Be successful. Be the provider. And, above all, be ok. The problem is, suppressing stress, anxiety, relationship dissatisfaction, and grief doesn’t make anything go…
