Articles And Interviews

Explore how to use therapeutic setbacks as powerful learning opportunities for both clinician and client.  

A therapist explores the complex feelings that arise when a client terminates abruptly.

Self-care, while helpful, is not the royal road to countertransference management.

Counselors can most definitely benefit from the age-old adage “Healer, heal thyself!”

Counselor educator/clinician Jude Austin offers wisdom and survival tips for both student and teacher from the trenches of graduate school.

A psychotherapist explores client-therapist boundaries and termination issues in a particularly intensive course of therapy.

At the fascinating and complex intersection of polio, psychoanalysis and sexuality, healing begins.

A psychoanalytic psychotherapist wrestles with her analysand’s challenging negative transference.

Benjamin Meyer believes that disclosing his struggles with learning differences to clients has strengthened his therapeutic relationships.

Dr. Rabin shares lessons culled from 40 years of psychotherapy teaching and practice.

Psychotherapist Chris Peterson makes a strong case for welcoming all of our intense feelings—both loving and hateful—into the therapy process with clients to deepen the therapy relationship and its healing potential.

Explore White privilege in the psychology profession and the importance of confronting it with education, curiosity & humility.

Working in the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship requires therapists to be fully engaged, and take risks in revealing themselves. But utilizing the transference and counter-transference makes for rewarding and powerful therapy.

Clinician and researcher Usha Tummala-Narra addresses the challenges of not only practicing, but of living multicultural competence.