Field Notes

Patterns, named. From the work.

Short essays from our clinical team on the everyday patterns that don’t make it into textbooks. Some of these will sound like you. Some won’t. That’s the point.

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What a situationship actually is, why you can't quite leave it, and the advocate problem at the center of it. From Elaina Envia, AMFT — Align's dating and self-worth specialist.