Frameworks & Resources
Original conceptual frameworks, visual tools, and downloadable resources designed to help professionals think more deeply, communicate more clearly, and navigate complexity with greater confidence.
The Necklace: What Therapy Helps Us Loosen
A reflective essay on curiosity, meaning-making, and the ethics of helping people author their own stories.
This essay uses the metaphor of a tangled necklace to explore what healing can look like in therapy: slowly creating more room for choice, movement, and freedom without treating ourselves as something broken that needs to be fixed.
Written for anyone who has begun the courageous work of healing — and wondered where to start — The Necklace offers a gentle reflection on patience, process, and what becomes possible when the knots begin to give.
🌿 What Do Motivational Interviewing and Metaphor Have to Do With Each Other?
A reflective essay on curiosity, meaning-making, and the ethics of helping people author their own stories.
This essay introduces the concept of metaphor stewardship—the practice of caring for another person's symbolic world without assuming ownership of its meaning. Drawing from Motivational Interviewing, attachment theory, and fifteen years of clinical practice, it explores how metaphor, curiosity, and reflective listening can deepen ethical clinical work while honoring the client's role as the author of their own story.
The Cartography of Justice-Involvement
A new framework to help professionals and clients navigate the landscape.
The Cartography of Justice-Involvement is a conceptual framework for understanding the psychological, social, and lived experience of navigating the justice system. It offers a map of the internal landscape people travel throughout the experience of accusation, uncertainty, shame, resilience, and healing. Designed for justice-involved individuals and the professionals who work alongside them, the framework provides a shared language for orientation, reflection, and compassionate decision-making — one that complements existing legal and clinical frameworks by illuminating the human experience that unfolds between them.
