Articles on men's mental health, trades and industrial work, and what therapy actually looks like when it's built for people who work with their hands. Written by a counsellor who's been underground.
A miner tried therapy once. The therapist asked if he was afraid of the dark. He never went back. Why counsellor-client fit matters more than credentials — and what that Reddit post taught me about who I'm supposed to be working with.
You left for 21 days. You come back and the house runs without you. Your kids are taller. Your partner solved three problems you used to handle. The house isn't broken — it adapted. And that adaptation is what makes coming home so hard.
Three sessions with a stranger who Googles your job title before the appointment. That's not mental health support — that's a corporate liability checkbox. Why the Employee Assistance Program fails trades and industrial workers, and what to use instead.
The image in your head — the couch, the tissues, the "how does that make you feel" — is the single biggest barrier between men who need help and men who get it. Here's what evidence-based therapy actually looks like when it's built for your world.