by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Apr 23, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
Parentification is usually described as a childhood role reversal. A child becomes the emotional caretaker, mediator, problem-solver, or stabilizer in a home where adults are inconsistent, overwhelmed, impaired, or absent. In clinical language, it is a distortion of...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Apr 15, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
In my first mental health job in the early 1990s, I learned a rule that still holds under pressure. Never tell an upset client to “calm down.” It backfires. The person does not feel heard, seen, or validated. They feel managed. The phrase sounds helpful to the one...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Mar 18, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
Most people are taught to listen to words. Survivors listen to physics. They hear pitch, pace, volume, breath, the weight of a step in the hallway, the way a door closes, the length of a pause after their name. Those details are dismissed as “too sensitive” by people...
by Megan Samuels | Mar 12, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional, Therapy
Before becoming a trauma therapist, I thought trauma therapy was this scary process where people had to relive their trauma in order to feel better. I think the media plays a big role in this belief. Many of my clients share similar fears when I ask what they expect...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Feb 10, 2026 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional, Pyschotherapy
There is a form of burnout that doesn’t show up on standard checklists. It can’t be fixed with vacations, lighter caseloads, or yoga retreats. It appears when the moral compass itself begins to fracture—when work once grounded in purpose starts to feel like complicity...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Feb 2, 2026 | Brain Chemistry, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional
Antinatalism is often mislabeled as nihilism. It isn’t hatred of life, nor is it the rejection of love. In clinical reality, it is what happens when empathy outruns endurance—when people who have witnessed too much pain begin to believe that non-creation is the final...
