A relational map for understanding how we move between survival and presence.
A framework for clinicians, creators, survivors, and anyone seeking to understand the deeper patterns that shape connection.
From Scarcity to Abundance
A visual representation of how relational roles shift when pressure softens and presence returns.
This is the heart of the model — the moment where survival loosens its grip and something more spacious becomes possible.
Use the slider in the middle of the image to compare interpersonal dynamics that we all experience when we are stuck in a mindset of either scarcity or abundance.
Both dynamic contexts are important and a necessary part of our experiences as humans. The model itself is like a compass to help us determine if our response to a given interpersonal dynamic is coming from a place of fear (scarcity) or trust (abundance).
The Model
A Framework for Relational Clarity
The Dynamic Interpersonal Model (DIM) is a visual and conceptual tool that maps how people move through relational roles under different emotional conditions.
It helps us recognize when we are acting from scarcity — protecting, performing, withdrawing, or overextending — and how those patterns transform when we return to abundance, authenticity, and mutual recognition.
It is both clinically grounded and deeply human.
Born From Lived Experience and Clinical Practice
DIM emerged from years of research, therapeutic work, and the lived realities of caretaking, rupture, and repair.
It gives language to experiences that often go unnamed — the quiet contortions we make to stay connected, the roles we inherit without choosing, the ways we disappear inside our own survival strategies.
The model offers a way back to ourselves.
For Those Navigating Complexity
- Clinicians seeking a clear, accessible relational framework
- Clients wanting to understand their patterns without shame
- Survivors and lifelong caretakers who have lived in chronic scarcity
- Leaders, creators, and community builders navigating relational dynamics
- Anyone longing for relationships rooted in presence rather than performance
This model meets people where they are — not where they “should” be.
A Living, Growing Framework
The Dynamic Interpersonal Model is currently being presented at Pacific University’s Diversity Conference and is in preparation for peer-review publication.
This site will expand with articles, visuals, workshops, and resources for clinicians, communities, and anyone seeking deeper relational understanding.
The work is evolving — and so is the world it hopes to serve.
A Personal Offering
This model is the culmination of years of research, survival, and quiet rebuilding.
It is both academic and deeply personal — shaped by lived experience, clinical training, and the long journey back to presence after seasons of scarcity.
I offer it here as a living map.
Not a prescription, not a doctrine — but a way of seeing that has helped me make sense of my own story, and the stories entrusted to me.
May it meet you with clarity, compassion, and possibility.
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