Explore how adolescents use cosplay to shape identity, express emotion, and create meaning through storytelling and narrative experience.
Hard Lessons Learned on the Relational Battlefield
Hard lessons from the relational battlefield. Explore emotional challenges, personal growth, and what it takes to build stronger, healthier relationships.
What Crisis Work Teaches Us About Being Human
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How to Start a Private Practice as a Therapist: Lessons from Nearly 20 Years In
Therapist and consultant Gordon Brewer, LMFT, shares practical advice on finances, referrals, insurance panels, and burnout in private practice.
Galit Atlas on Coming Closer and the Psychoanalytic Journey
Explore Galit Atlas on Coming Closer and the psychoanalytic journey, unpacking intimacy, trauma, and transformation in therapeutic relationships.
Kirk Schneider on the Enduring Relevance of Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy
Explore Kirk Schneider’s insights on the importance of existential-humanistic psychotherapy and how it helps clients find meaning, authenticity, and deeper psychological healing.
The Person of the Therapist: On Fantasy, Reality, and the Split Between Our Selves
Explore the person of the therapist, examining fantasy vs. reality and the internal split between selves that shapes clinical identity and practice.
Two Feminist Therapists Tune into CBS’s Survivor
Explore how counseling theory, feminist therapy, and Survivor intersect, using media to deepen clinical insight, identity, and therapeutic practice.
Of Countertransference, Breathing, and Trusting Myself
Explore countertransference, self-reflection, and mindful breathing as a therapist navigates anxiety, parenting, and trusting themselves.
What Therapists Think, but Don’t Say
Explore the unspoken thoughts therapists often carry in session—from judgment and uncertainty to empathy, silence, and ethical restraint.