by Carl Mothes | Nov 13, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
This will be another post in the subcategory of the “problem of distancing from nature,” introduced in a previous post. Here we’ll explore distancing not in the physical sense but in the emotional-experiential sense. There’s a common technique in Cognitive Behavioral...
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 | Sep 23, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
I think it’s safe to assume we all regard trust and truth as important, good, and even worth striving for. But why? Maybe your answer is that these concepts are just inherently so. As usual, let’s dig a bit deeper, and also lay groundwork for the following post, which...
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...
