When Men Come to Therapy: From Echo Chambers to Inner Knowing
Mens Mental Health, Masculinity and Identity, Therapy and Emotional Healing, Generational and Cultural Healing, Relationships and Vulnerability, Somatic and Parts Work Practices, Dagem Lemma LCSW Dagem Lemma, LMSW Mens Mental Health, Masculinity and Identity, Therapy and Emotional Healing, Generational and Cultural Healing, Relationships and Vulnerability, Somatic and Parts Work Practices, Dagem Lemma LCSW Dagem Lemma, LMSW

When Men Come to Therapy: From Echo Chambers to Inner Knowing

In therapy, I meet men who’ve been talking—to themselves, to friends, to podcasts, to Reddit threads and ChatGPT—for years. Group-chats and buddy hangouts echo the silence of unrequited vulnerability. They’ve been thinking through their relationships, their failures, their fears, their anger. But often, they’re not being heard in a way that brings relief or clarity. 

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“Strong, Silent, and Suffering”: The Emotional Education Men Never Got
Masculinity and Mental Health, Healing and Liberation, Identity and Resistance, Power and Vulnerability, Culture and Conditioning, Emotional Literacy and Care, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie Masculinity and Mental Health, Healing and Liberation, Identity and Resistance, Power and Vulnerability, Culture and Conditioning, Emotional Literacy and Care, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie

“Strong, Silent, and Suffering”: The Emotional Education Men Never Got

Most men aren’t taught how to care for their mental health. They’re taught how to perform masculinity.

From early childhood, boys are conditioned to embody a narrow version of manhood: be tough, don’t cry, stay in control. Vulnerability is treated as a liability, and tenderness as a threat. The result? A dangerous emotional straightjacket — one that leaves men silently suffering under the weight of feelings they were never allowed to name.

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