The Day the Dynamic Interpersonal Model Entered the Field

“Some ideas arrive quietly; others emerge slowly, over years of noticing.”

Before DIM was a manuscript, it was a way of seeing — a lens shaped by decades of clinical work and lived experience. It has been part of my practice, my writing, and my teaching long before it had a formal home. Today, it steps into the scientific process.

From Lived Experience to Peer Review

Today, something quietly extraordinary happened.

After years of developing the Dynamic Interpersonal Model — through clinical work, research, writing, and the long arc of my own lived experience — the manuscript has officially entered the peer‑review process with Practice Innovations, the journal of APA Division 42.

It now has a manuscript number. A place in the system. A trajectory of its own.

This moment feels both surreal and deeply grounding. For so long, DIM lived inside my mind, my practice, my dissertation, and the private spaces where ideas take shape. Now, it begins its life in the field of clinical psychology — where it can be engaged with, questioned, expanded, and used.

This isn’t the culmination of the work. It’s the beginning of its next chapter.

And for me, it marks a threshold — a quiet but meaningful shift from holding the model privately to offering it publicly.

I’m excited. I’m grateful. And I’m ready for whatever comes next.