I just completed three hours of thought-provoking training on artificial intelligence, (A.I.), and ethics in the field of psychotherapy. The training raised a number of questions I was not prepared for and I have since started to think very differently about a number of issues related to the use of artificial intelligence and the degree to which clients have started to use it in their daily lives and ultimately in between sessions with me. This prompted me to revisit a lot of

I am writing this on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from Ontario, Canada. Yesterday, the worst hurricane in the history of my beloved Jamaica hit the country. A category five hurricane is incredibly rare and never in the history of our country were we ever faced with such a dangerous storm. Hurricane Melissa was the strongest hurricane in recorded history in the Atlantic to make landfall. Those of us in the diaspora, (and there are literally MILLIONS of us), likely have memories

I, like most other people on the planet, am watching in abject horror as the constant barrage of awful events unfolds before our helpless eyes. I know that this is a much darker start to my blog than usual but, this is a very weird time to be alive. Since 2020, the population of earth has been subjected to non-stop chaos and trauma inducing events. The COVID-19 pandemic, the climatically disastrous fire in the Amazon rainforest, numerous wars, geo-political instability and un

It is important as therapists that we start to examine the manner in which our practice intersects with the realities of the digital age....

Back in the year 2000 when I started my first Masters programme in Communication Studies, I remember on our first day being told...