Welcome to Counselor’s Canvas

I’m Alex, a clinical mental health therapist, and Counselor’s Canvas is where I keep track of the things I am learning, thinking about, and still trying to understand.

This site started as a place to document my journey into the mental health field. Over time, it has grown into something much bigger. It has become part journal, part resource library, part creative project, and part record of how my thinking continues to change as I grow as a therapist.

What You’ll Find Here

The Mental Health side of the site includes personal journals, reflections on becoming a therapist, mental health topics, and reviews of books, articles, movies, and other resources.

You will also find Therapy After Midnight, where I explore fictional characters and fictional worlds through a psychological lens. Sometimes that means looking at trauma, grief, identity, relationships, personality, or diagnosis. Sometimes it means asking whether diagnosis is even the most useful way to understand a character.

Why I Write

I do not want this site to sound like a textbook.

Mental health exists outside of therapy offices and diagnostic manuals. It shows up in work, school, relationships, media, grief, burnout, creativity, identity, and ordinary life.

Writing gives me space to explore those connections while keeping a record of what I am learning along the way.

Some posts are more researched. Some are personal. Some are simply me thinking through an idea that I want to return to later.

That is part of what Counselor’s Canvas is meant to be.

If You’re Here for Therapy

I also work as a therapist, and you can learn more about working with me through the Book an Appointment section of the site.

Whether you came here looking for mental health information, a fictional character analysis, one of my journals, or simply ended up clicking around, I’m glad you found your way here.

A question to carry with you:
What is something you have been trying to understand about yourself lately?