Therapy for Therapists
in Dallas
Personal growth doesn’t happen inside your comfort zone.
Let’s get uncomfortable.
Therapy that pushes you.
If you're a therapist, finding someone for your own therapy can be tough. For a lot of us, it's less about the search and more about a pattern we walk in with: reading the room for everyone else before we ever get around to ourselves, usually because we grew up as parentified kids.
Not everything that brings a therapist into their own therapy builds up slowly. Burnout and compassion fatigue accumulate over time, from repeated exposure — but sometimes it's a specific thing: a client's suicide, a credible threat, a disclosure that won't leave you alone at 2am. That's a different kind of injury, and slow-burn advice like "rest more" and "set better boundaries" misses the point when nothing was accumulating. Something happened.
I believe deep, lasting change occurs when we get enough comfort to drop our guard, and then start to genuinely get uncomfortable and challenge ourselves. If this interests you, visit my core homepage to learn more about me and how I work.
Dr. Jim Mosher, PhD, ABPP
The final straw
I call it Functional Psychotherapy — a model I'm developing, built bottom-up and experiential rather than purely insight-based. The aim is symptom transformation, not symptom management. I have a style that's warm, but direct when it's what's needed.
If a specific incident is what brought you here, rather than slow accumulation, I've written more about why that distinction matters for how it gets treated.
For a concrete sense of the work, I've published a case study in combat trauma and a piece laying out the practical theory behind my approach.
Telehealth sessions in Texas via PSYPACT authorization; I'm based in Bloomington, MN, and see clients by video only outside Minnesota.