A Writer/Author
Besides being a psychotherapist and a speaker, I also write for several digital and print platforms and I’ve published a book as well.
From 2012 to 2018, I contributed a monthly column to Word magazine. Though the printed title was "The Therapist," the column quickly became known by readers as "Dear Douglas," due to its focus on responding to submitted questions about common psychotherapy issues.
Throughout this period, I also published numerous articles expanding on topics related to my therapeutic work, with the creative process often serving as a central theme.
Here is the content revised into the first-person point of view:
I've also written a couple of articles centered on what I called, "The World We’re In" for the Saigoneer, covering contemporary topics like;
- Climate Change
- The Speed of Change, and The Power of Persuasion.
I contribute regularly to The Root Concepts blog; my more recent article there is titled "Understanding the Use of Will."
Take a look at some of my articles, creative prose, and poetry that have spilled out onto the page for many years now. I find writing to be a powerful way to organize my thoughts, to play with and appreciate the power of words, and to open myself up to the spontaneous expression of the creative process.
Living From the Inside out.
From the experience of being a psychotherapist for 25 years comes a book about the ways we can influence our own lives to gain a sense of peace and freedom that comes from self-acceptance.
Self-acceptance cannot be full or complete without self-knowledge and self-awareness. This book is my attempt to organize ways to think about our inner life, the ways we are part of a social world and what we need in order to discover the freedom to become our whole true selves.
Part one is entitled, “Begin Within” and looks at the triad of emotion, thinking and our body, all of which are entry ways providing information about the experiences we are having as we walk, or stumble our way through life. Each has a lot to tell us if we develop the self-awareness to listen.
Carl Jung said, “like a plant which from a seed becomes an Oak tree, so humans become what we are meant to be…but we get stuck.”
This book is my attempt to guide people pragmatically in ways that help them understand what ways they might be “stuck” and how they can free themselves to discover what they are meant to be, have the potential to be. It has implications for each individual, but also for humanity as well.
