It’s hard to believe that my blog, Gamer Therapist is over 17 years old! But a post from my archive reveals that on 10/8/2007 I posted about being cranky about global warming in New England autumns, informing therapists about email security, linking to a study on racial stress and prenatal care research and struggling to avoid getting political. The blog evolved from its beginnings as a quasi newsletter as I became more confident in sharing my interests and both professional and personal self, including adding images to posts such as my therapy dog, Boo, seen here.
Some things are changing and some are staying the same. The office in the picture, and sadly Boo, are long gone. I am less interested in repressing politics in an era of increasing danger and turmoil for the most vulnerable of us. I will still be writing on psychodynamic theory and therapy practice, but also the psyche politic, race, class and gender, decolonizing therapy and disrupting systems of oppression. This month Gamer Therapist moves to Substack. And although all my future posts will be free you can now for the first time get a paid subscription to support my work.
Here’s how I described the revamp in Substack:
“Gamer posing as therapist. Dogs, video games & politics since 1969. Think of me as the therapist version of your cranky GenX older brother who wants to hang out in the basement rumpus room with you, talking about questionable things and plotting rebellion.”
Hope you’ll join me!
