by Carl Mothes | Nov 7, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
“My patients?” “My clients?” “The dudes I work with?”How do I describe my clientele? I struggle with this. “Patients” refers to the medical model and indicates a status differentiation that I dislike—none of us have figured “it” out. “Clients” comes across as if we’re...
by Carl Mothes | Oct 9, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG
Ok, you fucked up and didn’t heed the advice in the previous post, and now you’re experiencing the utterly unpleasant experience of distrust. Let experience be the solution; it’s not called the best teacher for no reason. Actually, in the case of trust, its...
by Carl Mothes | Jul 10, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG
Part II – What about the individual? The main point here is that in a romantic/life partnership, individual expectations must be based on—or coincide with—relationship expectations. When expectation conflicts arise, typically the individual expectation...
by Carl Mothes | Mar 20, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
We often tout efficiency as the pinnacle guiding principle on the way toward continued human achievement—almost like it’s the only metric that matters. Yes, it can be important, but what about pleasure? It’s, of course, not a binary situation—efficiency or...
by Carl Mothes | Feb 13, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG
I often find myself longing for a period between the 1880s and 1950s. Not that I have any actual basis for my romanticizing of this time, but more the ideology of a pre-digital age. A quick Google search confirms that the digital age began in the ’70s. So we can...
