MEN & MASCULINITY
Many men come to therapy after years of keeping things together. On the outside, life may look steady — competent, reliable, contained. But internally, something feels tight or off: a sense of running on fumes, a dullness where there once was energy, or the quiet recognition that being capable isn't the same as feeling alive.
For a lot of men, emotional life has been shaped by long-standing expectations: be composed, be useful, don't burden anyone, stay in control. Over time, these expectations can compress the range of feeling. Anger becomes the closest thing to expression; irritation covers fear; numbness takes the place of confusion or longing. These reactions aren't signs of emotional limitation — they're signs that the psyche learned to work with a restricted vocabulary.
The consequences of that restriction tend to appear gradually. Maybe you find yourself getting irritable when you're actually overwhelmed. Maybe you avoid the conversations that matter most. Maybe you feel disconnected from desire and don't know why. Or you catch yourself repeating patterns that once made sense but now leave you feeling constrained. These moments are signs that your inner world wants more room than it's been allowed.
In therapy, we slow down enough to listen to the nuances inside these patterns. What feels threatening? What goes silent? What pulls you closer to someone, and what pushes you away? These questions matter because men often carry feelings they were never supported in naming: grief for things they wanted but couldn't pursue; guilt for having needs at all; fear of becoming someone they don't recognize.
The goal is not to turn you into someone who is "more emotional" but to widen the terrain you can stand on. To make room for the parts of you that have been waiting. Men are often taught that emotional complexity is dangerous. This work offers another way of understanding what has been held at a distance.
The goal is not to turn you into someone who is 'more emotional' but to make you less governed by what you can't feel
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