Joel T Blackstock Jr. LICSW-S MSW PIP

Clinical Director | Complex Trauma Therapist | Experiential and Somatic Brain Based Medicine

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Category(ies): Clinical Social Worker | Psychology / Psychotherapy | Public Health

Joel Blackstock is a licensed clinical social worker and the Clinical Director of Taproot Therapy Collective in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. He specializes in treating severe trauma, burnout, and chronic nervous system dysregulation by focusing on the neurobiological hardware of the brain rather than relying solely on traditional cognitive talk therapy. Joel leads a team of specialized clinicians and regularly conducts clinical training on neuroscience, media psychology, and somatic interventions like Brainspotting. He is also the host of the Discover Heal Grow podcast, where he explores the intersection of mental healthcare systems, biology, and culture.

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Treating trauma and burnout through neurobiology, not just talk therapy.

Joel T Blackstock Jr. LICSW-S MSW PIP

Treating trauma and burnout through neurobiology, not just talk therapy.

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As Goes Social Work, So Go the Doctors

Doctors need to realize that the attacks on social work will soon become attacks on boards of nursing and then later it will chip away at their profession’s ability to defend themselves against insurance mandates and state law.

The Therapist in the Cage: The Audacity, the Sopranos, and the Patients Who Cannot Be Reached

The larger the power imbalance, the harder it becomes for truth to survive; a psychotherapist’s observation of what happens when wealth climbs past the altitude where consequence (and therefore healing) can still reach a person.

The Committee That Shapes What Your Time Is Worth

Joel Blackstock shares how a private committee with one psychiatry seat and a procedural supermajority decide that talking to patients is worth less than operating on them, and wonders why mental health access is collapsing.

When Delusions Update: Psychosis in the Age of Algorithms

From influencing machines to AI algorithms, Joel Blackstock, LICSW-S writes, the cultural context of psychosis shapes what patients experience and how clinicians should respond.

Ninety Miles Away: The Treatments Americans Cannot Access

Joel Blackstock writes that while Cuban researchers develop low-cost treatments showing remarkable results for Alzheimer’s, lung cancer, and diabetic amputations, American patients remain legally blocked from accessing them.

Why the DSM Keeps Failing the People It Labels

Joel Blackstock, LICSW-S MSW PIP writes that the DSM system wasn’t built on scientific breakthroughs, but rather on professional insecurity, and understanding that history explains why so many clinicians have lost faith in it

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The Psychology of “Us” and “Them”

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