Victor Yalom, PhD
Victor Yalom, PhD is the founder and resident cartoonist of Psychotherapy.net. He maintained a busy private practice in San Francisco for over 25 years, but now sees only a few clients (including 2 online therapy groups) devoting the bulk of his time to producing new training videos for Psychotherapy.net, doing metal sculpture, and learning to play the alto saxophone. He has produced over 100 training videos, conducted workshops in existential-humanistic and group therapy in the US, Mexico, and China, and currently leads consultation groups for therapists. More info on Victor and his artwork and sculpture at sfpsychologist.com.
By Victor Yalom, PhD
on 5/31/22 - 1:45 PM
What can you learn about the mind-body connection during a root canal? Victor Yalom shares his hard-earned insights.
By Victor Yalom, PhD
on 2/2/18 - 10:25 AM
Hard to believe, but it’s been 22 years since I set up a small booth at The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in 1995 in Las Vegas, peddling my first videotape. My how times have changed.
By Victor Yalom, PhD
on 8/30/10 - 10:52 PM
<br /><strong>It’s been twenty-plus years now</strong> of returning from some sort of summer vacation to resume seeing clients. I wake up this morning, still unsettled from my dream life, reminded that my own anxiety, seemingly under wraps, is not too far from the surface. As I mentally ready myself to go back to work, images and memories seep in from prior years: early in my career nervously wondering whether any clients would return; other times eagerly anticipating seeing a specific client or...
