Born From Lived Experience and Clinical Practice
Dynamic Interpersonal Model 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.
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.
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).
For Those Navigating Complexity
This model meets people where they are — not where they “should” be.
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.
Recent Posts A Quiet Rebuild Over the past several weeks, I’ve been revisiting and refining the language across this site. Not to change the model itself — but to make it more
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