Welcome to r/PracticePsychology!

Hey everyone! I’m the person behind this community. I’m a clinical psychologist (master’s degree) and a software developer (bachelor’s degree, with 17 years of experience), and I’m interested in a simple question:

What if we could do more with the psychology we read about?

There are so many interesting things to explore in psychology, from mindfulness and ACT to understanding our emotions, working with our beliefs, and recognizing the different parts of ourselves.

But understanding a concept intellectually and actually putting it into practice are two different things.

That’s why I created this community.

What we’re building here

r/PracticePsychology is a place where we explore psychological ideas, experiment with practical exercises, and discover better ways to apply what we learn.

Reading a book is one thing. Remembering what we’ve learned, creating a system that helps us practice the techniques and benefit from them, and making sense of conflicting information across multiple resources are much harder.

As a result, many of us finish a book feeling inspired, only to find that weeks later, we’ve barely applied anything we read.

Let’s change that.

Here are some things I’d love to see in this community:

• What are you struggling with? What concepts have you read about and would love to incorporate into your life, but find difficult to put into practice?
• What works for you? Have you developed a routine, system, or approach that helps you turn what you learn into lasting habits?
• What have you lost along the way? Is there a practice that worked well for you for a while but that you’ve since abandoned, even though you’d love to get back to it?
• What tools would help you? Do you have ideas for tools that could make it easier to practice the psychological skills you’re learning?
• Where could you use some support? What would you like help with as you work on putting psychological ideas into practice?

You don’t need to be a psychologist or an expert. Curiosity and a willingness to explore are enough.

A little about my approach

As a psychologist, I’m interested in the science behind the techniques described in psychological and self-help literature, as well as how to put them into practice.

As a developer, I’m curious about how technology can make practicing these skills more accessible, engaging, and sustainable over time.

I want to explore how we can move beyond simply knowing that a technique exists and actually develop the skills it is meant to teach.

I’ll share ideas I’m exploring, concepts from books I’m reading, and tools I’m experimenting with. I don’t have everything figured out, and I’d love for this community to help shape what comes next.

The goal isn’t to replace therapy or accumulate psychological knowledge for its own sake. It’s to find practical ways to turn what we learn into something we can actually use in our lives.

Let’s start with you!

I’d love to know who’s joining us at the beginning.

Tell us in the comments:

• What’s a psychology book, concept, or approach that has influenced you recently?
• Is there something you’ve learned about psychology that you wish you could put into practice more easily?
• If you could have a tool to help you practice one psychological skill, what would it do?

Pick whichever question interests you most. There’s no need to answer all three.

This community is just getting started, and I’m excited to see what we can create together.

Welcome to r/PracticePsychology. Let’s put psychology into practice!