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

"If you don't heal from what hurt you, you'll bleed on people who didn't cut you" – Isabella De Bruno I once had an argument with a Facebook friend that resulted in him cutting me off after I held up a mirror to a flaw in his thinking. He was not demonstrating an openness to listening to the lived experiences of others and the situation became so irksome that I felt compelled to tell him exactly how I felt in full Jamaican parlance. As a Jamaican himself, he did not take

As it is Men’s Mental Health Month and this issue appears to be front of mind for many, I decided to share some thoughts about the male loneliness epidemic. As a therapist, I see the unfiltered sides of all my clients. The men I work with share their deepest fears, their darkest thoughts and their most closely guarded secrets. I see men in an unfiltered way because of this. Scrolling through social media, one would believe that ALL heterosexual men are complaining about how

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