About
Epoché Clinical is a set of clinical teaching tools for therapists and counseling students who want to understand not just what therapeutic approaches do, but what they assume — about the body, about suffering, about what change actually requires.
Most clinical training teaches technique without philosophy. A student learns EMDR and CBT as separate methods without understanding that they rest on different accounts of what memory does, what the body knows, and what change requires. This tool tries to make those foundations visible.
About the Author
Matthew Sorg is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and EMDRIA Certified Therapist practicing on Capitol Hill in Seattle. He holds an MA in Existential-Phenomenological Psychology and a Master of Library and Information Science — a combination that shapes both the clinical orientation of his work and the information architecture of these tools.
His private practice, Epoché Psychotherapy, specializes in trauma therapy for adults, using EMDR, Brainspotting, Flash Technique, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), grounded in an existential-phenomenological orientation. Before training as a therapist, he spent a decade in scholarly publishing and information architecture.
These tools were built because most clinical training teaches technique without philosophy — and that gap matters.
A Note on the Name
Epoché (ἐποχή) is the phenomenological practice of suspending what you think you know — bracketing assumptions, theories, and prior interpretations — in order to attend to what is actually present. It is a useful discipline in philosophy. It is an essential one in clinical work.