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Sidestepping the Dependency Dance in Psychotherapy
Deploying Therapeutic Airbags to Enhance Clinical Outcome
Using A Holistic Approach to Therapy with Clients Experiencing Chronic Illness, Disability, and Mental Health Challenges
Rewriting the Drinking Story: Four Pillars for Empowered Sobriety
For the Love of the Game
Jennifer Baggerly on Disaster Response Play Therapy: Shelter from the Storm
Reflections on How to Live with Hardships in Life
Encounter with Resistance
Ben Yalom on Narrative Therapy, Theater, and Writing with my Father
The Anxiety Disorder Game
Practicing Philosophy on the Frontlines of Suicide Prevention
A Neurodivergent Clinicians’ Personal and Professional Journey of Self-Discovery
Therapy as a Rehearsal Ground of Courage
Shaped by Experience: What a Brain Bleed Taught Me About Therapy, Grief, and Presence
Rebuilding Connection after Grieving the Loss of a Desired Relationship
Christoffer Haugaard on Collaborating with Clients Who Hear Voices
Is it Ethical to Use ChatGPT for Diagnosis and Treatment Planning?
Toward a Critical Realist Understanding of Psychoanalytic Interpretation
In the Therapist’s Chair and at the Kitchen Table: Juggling Personal and Professional Struggles
Emigration: Hidden Suffering, Complex Grief, and Identity Transformation
On the Therapeutic Power of Presence
Why Trauma Recovery Isn’t a Straight Line
Nancy Haug on Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
Insight into the Clinical Challenges of Adoption
Redefining Strength: A Black Woman’s Journey to Healing
A Therapist’s Guide to Breaking Free from Impostor Syndrome
Therapeutic Reimagining
Hide & Seek: Evoking Desires to be Seen, Heard, and Found
Understanding Sexual Reenactments and How to Eliminate Them
A Supervisor’s Guide on How to Create a Culture of Support
Voices Are Nourished by Fear
From Darkness to Hope: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy
Getting Started as a Therapist: 50+ Tips for Clinical Effectiveness
Unburden What Has Been
Josh Coleman on the Roadmap to Healing Family Estrangement
Moving Beyond ‘How Do You Feel’ in Therapy to Release Client’s Pain
A More Compassionate Approach to Juvenile Evaluations
Repairing Self-Neglect in Clients with Complex PTSD
The Challenge of Therapy During War: Psychotherapy in Ukraine
Helping Clients to Understand and Overcome Traumatic Reenactment
The Art of Effective Couples Therapy: Negotiation, Compromise, and Sacrifice
Healing the Wounds of Trauma through Play
Jessica Kitchens on the Clinical Needs of Autistic Adults
Teaching Clients Active Listening Skills to Improve their Relationships
Becoming an Accidental DBT Therapist
Lessons in Tough Compassion and Male Resistance to Therapy
Through the Eyes of the Childlike Empress: Play Therapy with Refugee Children
When Clients Don’t Want to Talk about Their Feelings
Navigating the Landscape of Spiritual Experience in Therapy
Bethany Brand on the Identification and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder
When to Use Unexpected Techniques with Emotionally Overwhelmed Adults
The Silent Therapist: Teddy Bear Therapy with Adults
A Day in the Life of a Very Old Therapist
Finding Healing Through Art: A Case Study in Art Therapy
Reasons Why Safety Precedes Forgiveness for Survivors of Abuse
A Unique Mental Health Conference That Supports People With DID
Spilling Over Modernity’s Borders and Boundaries: A Decolonial Story About Alzheimer’s, Family, and Migration
Impactful Encounters: The Truth About Therapy in Nursing Homes
What Happens Now? Reporting Childhood Sexual Abuse
Analyzing the Intersection of Play and Existential Therapies
How to Create Positive Outcomes in Play Therapy: Following the Child’s Lead
Legendary Psychotherapists Share Their Secrets to Longevity
Michelle Jurkiewicz on Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy with Children, Teens and Families
Embracing Technology in Counseling: Innovative Tools for Enhanced Client Support
Addressing Bullying in the Classroom: Undercover Anti-Bullying Teams
Successful Use of Haleys Strategic Model of Family Therapy
Managing Post-Election Despair in Therapy: A Clinician’s Conundrum
How Do You Maintain Compassion and Respect for Your Clients?
Reflecting on Domestic Violence: How One Therapist Made a Difference
Using Four-Legged Friends as Metaphors in Therapy
Julie Bindeman on Reproductive Mental Health Care, Dobbs, and Beyond
The Importance of Being Heard: When Clients Need Us to Listen
Nothing Left to Give: A Psychologist’s Path Back from Burnout
The Transformative Power of Empathy in Therapy
Bringing Art (Therapy) to Life: An Interview with Judith Rubin
Balancing Between Creative and the Clinician: Reflections on Self-Integration
Integrating Generative AI and Digital Play Therapy into Clinical Practice
Honesty, Not Empathy, is the Greatest Gift a Clinician Can Offer
Can You See Me? Arab Immigrants’ Quests for Identity and Belonging
Standing With Clients in the Twilight of Life
When Symptoms Overshadow a Diagnosis: Psychotherapy as Archeology
The Secret to Forming Powerful Relationships that Spark Change
How to Avoid Burnout and Find Joy in Corporatized Care Settings
Gift Giver: The Impact of Giving Clients Gifts
The Bad and Good Ghosts: A Story of Reauthoring in Narrative Therapy with Children
Looking Beyond Trauma: A Neurodivergent Therapist Shifts Her Clinical Focus
Breaking Down Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Heart of the OCD
The Healing Power of Therapeutic Presence
Effects of Social Media on Child Development: Healthy Strategies
How to Be Successful in Child Therapy: Lessons From 5 Decades of Practice
Sasha McAllum Pilkington on Grace and Storytelling at the End of Life
Navigating Client Loneliness in the Digital Age with Therapy
Facing the Fear of Flying Together: Reconsidering Exposure Therapy
Creating a Safe Therapeutic Space for All Feelings
Reflections on Clinical Techniques for Working with Loss
Gardening Narratives and Storyliving Ones Life
How In-Person Sessions Create Space for Clients Unspeakable Truths
Existential-Spiritual Techniques for Fostering a Healthy Perspective on Aging
Postmodern Play Therapy: Helping a Child Overcome their “Trouble Energy”
Psychodynamic Therapies: How Did We Get Here & Where Are We Going?
Ink Therapy: Harnessing the Power of Vintage Self-Help Books
Losing the Atmosphere, A Memoir: A Baffling Disorder, a Search for Help, and the Therapist Who Understood
Teaching Prisoners to Lead Grief Support Groups
Advice for Young Therapists: A Long View
Avoiding Burnout Traps: Managing the Conflict between Empathy and Exhaustion
The Elder in Exile: Psychotherapy with Older Adults
Psychotherapy Status Report: Past Achievements/Current Failures/Future Disruptions
The Benefits of Making Metaphors Meaningful in Psychotherapy
Thomas Doherty on Ecopsychology and the Ethical Imperative of Ecotherapy
The Disconnection of Depression: How to Restore Attachment Using Cognitive Interventions
Finding Ways to Communicate with Clients About Their Symptoms
The Wisdom of Therapist Uncertainty
Terminally Ill Pediatric Patients and the Grieving Therapist
Avoiding the Adverse Impact of Electronic Communication in Couples Therapy
Coming Full Circle: Helping a Young Couple Through Their Grief
Using Play Therapy (and Movies) to Heal Attachment Wounds in a Young Child
How a Missed Therapy Session and Self-Disclosure Led to Therapeutic Gains
How to Use Narrative Therapy to Help Clients Locate Alternate Stories
A Healing Journey: Developing Coping Skills in the Face of Trauma
Our Time is Up
The Pros and Cons of Remote Therapy: A Clinician’s Dilemma
Working with In-Law Problems in Couples Therapy
How to Use Structured Writing to Help Clients Unclutter
Ethics or Protocol: Children Must Take Priority
Challenging a Beloved Therapist: A Catalyst to Growth
Politics on the Couch
Donald Meichenbaum on Coping with Loss and Traumatic Bereavement
Mapping the Heart Of OCD: Going Beyond the Conditions We Know
A Foster Child’s Painful Visit with his Mother
Supporting Recently Traumatized Youth in a Crisis of Dissociation and Self-Harm
Psychotherapy with Dissociative Identity Disorder
Suicidal Debates with Clients in Psychotherapy
What Can Therapists Offer the Larger World?
How Clinical Empathy Can Restore the Impact of Invalidating Medical Experiences
Psychologists Struggle Too: How Shame Keeps Us Silent
Virtual Treatment of Eating Disorders and the Importance of Human Connection
Rick Miller on the Clinical Challenges of Working with Gay Sons, Mothers, and Families
Dialogue 1: How Do We Define Collaborative Writing?
My Romance with Narrative Letters: Counter-Storying Through Letter Writing
Psychotherapists Are the Luckiest People on Earth
Beyond Neurosis: The Case for A Humanistic Approach to Illness Anxiety
A Small Hope: Co-creating a Narrative of Grief – Part II
A Week with Virginia Satir: The Gift
A Small Hope: Co-creating a Narrative of Grief – Part I *
Working Effectively and Developmentally with Traumatized Adolescents in the Juvenile Justice System
Awareness: Attunement, Access, and Affirmation
Effective Family Therapy Using Football Metaphors
When the Therapist Turns Out to be Human
Ethical & Legal Considerations in Using ChatGPT as an Aid for Clinical Diagnosis
The Challenges and Rewards of Therapeutic Work with Brain-Injured Clients
Deciding How to Die: Narrative Therapy in Palliative Care with Someone Considering Stopping Dialysis
An Early Career Lesson in Boundary Setting Helps the Client and Therapist Grow
Mary Jo Barrett on the Collaborative Treatment of Incest and Complex Developmental Trauma
The CORE Approach to Therapy: Helping Jennie Find Resilience
A Shared Diagnosis: Managing Breast Cancer Together
Containing The Adult ADHD Fad — With a Rejoinder from ChatGPT
When Clients Ask, “What Do You Want for Me?”
How to Use Inference and Speculation for Psychological Assessment
Narrative Therapy in a Cross-Cultural Conversation with Someone Approaching Death
Brief Therapy with Single Mothers: The Transformational Alchemy of Metaphor
Providing Culturally Sensitive Narrative Therapy and EMDR to Original Peoples
Critical Tips for Building and Maintaining Your Private Practice: Avoiding Self-Defeat
Strengthening the Therapy Relationship with Gay Men
The Costs and Benefits of Virtual Reality in Psychotherapy
Stealing a Passage Home: Narrative Therapy to Re-claim Honesty
Using the Filipino Practice of Shared Inner Perception in Psychotherapy
The Symbolic Healing Power of Traditional Coping Strategies
Katja-Writing: Being Author and Audience to Fictionalized Stories of Trauma- Part II
Will Computers Replace Psychotherapists?
Makungu Akinyela on Testimony and the Mattering of Black Therapy
Therapy as a Means of Balancing Loss with Acceptance
Katja-Writing: Being Author and Audience to Fictionalized Stories of Trauma- Part I
Cognitive Reframing is the Key to Counselling High-Conflict Couples
Psychotherapy With Non-Verbal Clients: Blending Empathy and Flexibility
Using Common Sense Problem-Solving and Worry Containment to Subdue Ruminations
Reducing the Negative Impact of Reasonable Expectations on Healthy Relationships
The Realm of Our Industry
Seven Lessons for Making a Meaningful Life: A Therapist’s Guide
Dead Basement: Opening a Family Therapy Time Capsule
Mommy Liked Me Best (And Why It Matters as a Gay Son)
Successful Psychotherapy Comes Down to Finding the Motivation for Change
Love is Not All You Need: A Revolutionary Approach to Parental Abuse
Breaking the Rules: When Parroting is the Best Approach in Therapy
Satya Byock on the Search for Meaning and Stability in Quarterlife
How to Use Inner Processes in Play Therapy to Help Traumatized Children
Do Clients Really Read Session Notes? The Truth Might Surprise You
What I Know Now About the Clients Risks and Rewards of Reporting Sexual Assault
Wrapped in Care: Narrative Therapy in the Time of COVID
Using Psychotherapy to Heal a Lifetime of Pain and Shame
Can Chat Bot Therapy Really Replace Authentic Connection?
How To Map the Toxic Impact of Social Media on Families in Therapy
Death Cafes: You’re Going Where?
Imagined into Agency: Goth Lolita Comes to Life
Where Do You Draw the Line Between Psychotherapy and Coaching?
How to Help Clients Change the Narrative of Aging
Psychotherapy with a WW II Survivor: Bearing Grief with Grace
Krista Tippett on the Immensity of Our Lives
A Therapist Uses Her Grief as a Resource for Working with Trauma
Addressing Countertransference in Grief Counseling
Current Developments in Clinical Suicidology and Mental Health Crisis Management
Why Effective Psychotherapy is a Full-Body Contact Sport
The Truth About Professional Growing Pains from a Novice Psychotherapist
How to Use Play Therapy in Prisons to Create Hope
Psychotherapy and Multiple Sclerosis: Behind The Mask of Joy
Building on Family Strengths to Solve the Puzzle of Child Protection Work
Social Media Monitoring Tips for Successful Psychotherapy with Teens
How to Watch Master Therapists in Session and Build Clinical Competence
The Upside of Loss: Helping Grieving Clients in Therapy
Effective Nursing Home Psychotherapy: Blending Skill And Heart
How To Keep Students Engaged Using Psychotherapy Training Videos
Is Private Equity Coming for Your Therapy Practice? An Interview with Joe Bavonese
A Powerful Therapeutic Tool for Defeating Negative Self-Talk
In the Shadow of COVID, It’s Play Therapy to the Rescue
The Gift of Presence in Grief Counseling: A Path Forward
Spitting Truth from My Soul: A Case Story of Rapping, Probation, and the Narrative Practices- Part II
Therapy in the Shadow of Death and Its Remarkable Privileges
Should Transgender Youth Care be Guided by Beliefs or Science?
Powerful Therapy Strategies for Healing Wounded Couples
Successful Trauma Therapy Does Not Require Forgiveness
Dreams, Nightmares, and the Key to Successful Trauma Therapy
How Mental Illness Protects Clients Wounded by Trauma
Spitting Truth from My Soul: A Case Story of Rapping, Probation, and the Narrative Practices- Part I
Radical Listening: A Key to Therapeutic Success
Looking Back on a Year of Challenges for Psychotherapists
Critical Counseling Tips for Guiding Parents of Gifted Children
Laughter and Humor Can Be the Best Therapy
Radical Listening is the Secret Ingredient to Successful Psychotherapy
Travis Heath on Psychotherapy as an Act of Rebellion
Storytelling in Counseling Is Often the Key to Successful Outcomes
How to Resurrect a Dying Relationship One Emotion at a Time
How to Help Veterans Haunted by War Reclaim Their Humanity
McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
Using the Power of Play Therapy to Free a Frightened Child
Healing Conversations: Giving Life to the Life of a Person Who Died by Suicide*
The Existential Importance of the Penis: A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality – Daniel N. Watter, EdD
5 Time Tested Methods for Attracting New Referrals and Building Your Brand
In a Volatile Post-Roe World, Morals and Medicine Clash
5 Simple Questions to Improve Your Work with Elderly Clients
How to Successfully Navigate Cultural Challenges with Filipino Clients
How to Learn from Painful Early Career Failures
Victor Yalom on Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mastery
Self-Esteem is Overrated. Here’s Why Self-Compassion is Better
Improving Your Clinical Presence with Receptivity and Gratitude
How to Overcome Self-Doubt as a Therapist
How to Focus on Emotions to Help Volatile Couples Reconnect
Powerful Ways to Improve Your Presence with Suicidal Clients
Surrounded by the Village Idiots
How to Improve Your Therapy with Playfulness
Can Psychotherapy Really Survive the Onslaught of Venture Capitalism?
Psychotherapy Behind Prison Walls. Does it Really Help?
Stephen Schueller on the Power and Promise of Mental Health Apps
Re-Directing Clinical Passion: Benefits and Pitfalls
Keeping or Ending Commitments, Excerpted from The Ethical Lives of Clients: Transcending Self-Interest in Psychotherapy
Will Your Treatment Plans Actually Survive a Doomsday Scenario?
Perfectionism in Highly Intelligent Clients: Therapeutic Strategies
Need Management Therapy: A Clinical GPS for Couples Work
The Secret to Successful Couples Therapy: Empathy Over Doubt
May You Practice in Interesting Times: An Invitation
Judgmental Health
Trauma Survivors React to Overturning Roe
Full Container
The Encounter at the Doorway
Our Masturbation Machines
Making Clichés Work in Therapy
The Rest of the Story: Digging Beneath the Diagnosis
Acknowledging the Impact of Cancel Culture on Therapy
Working Therapeutically with Generational Conflict
“Insta” Therapy on Social Media: Caveat Emptor
I Simply Don’t Want the Agita
Brooke Sheehan on Psychotherapy Behind Bars
How to Survive Pandemic Pandemonium in Nursing Facilities
What Root Canal Surgery Taught Me About Being a Therapist
Clients Deal with Ethics Too
Dr. Shelley F. Diamond: A Psychotherapist Facing Death
In Praise of Termination
Through the Looking Glass: Helping Clients with Retirement
Whose Exposure Is It, Anyway?
The Subtle Art of Therapeutic Rudeness
Existentialism and the Environmental Crisis: The Urgency of Meaning
On the Continuum of Real to Imagined Abandonment
Taking Care of My Own Mental Health
Data Mining: The Brave New World of Mental Health
Thomas Insel on Science, Zip Code, and Future-Proofing Psychotherapy
Reclaiming Our Artistry, One Session at a Time
Do Psychotherapists Need to Buy DSM-5-TR?
Feedback-Focused Couples Counseling
Survival Strategies
Attending to Attachment in the Treatment of Incarcerated Women
Encouraging Clients to be Preventative
Healing Wounded Images of Self and God
The Challenge of Retirement: Finding Meaning and Self-Esteem in New Ways
Psychotherapists Do Not Cry Here: Hope During the War in Ukraine
Russian Shame
Corrective Emotional Experience Is the Key to Therapeutic Effectiveness
Ninety-Five Percent: Preparing to Work with Previously-Incarcerated Clients
An Existential-Spiritual Journey During COVID-19
Addressing the Relational Impact of Mental Illness
A Visit to the Orwellian Institute for Psychotherapy
Truth and Fiction in Psychotherapy
A Behavior Treatment Plan as a Psychological MRI
A Path Towards Healing Generational Trauma
Harvesting the Fruits of Popular Culture in Psychotherapy
The Practice of Behavior as Medicine
Is Psychotherapy Still an Infant Science?
Metaphor and Early Warning Systems in Psychotherapy with Narcissistic Patients
To Text or Not to Text: A Vacationing Therapist
Confusion of Tongues
Listening for Meaning in the Voices Nursing Home Clients Hear
Grief, The Dismissed Yet Common Experience
Battling Stigma: Serving Previously-Incarcerated Clients in the Community
Stefani Goerlich on Becoming a Kink-Affirming Therapist
Setbacks in Psychotherapy
Melting Fear with Love
Anger and Powerlessness in the Era of COVID: Changing the Narrative
The Day My Life Turned Upside Down
Then My Christianity Kicked In
Confessions of a Student Counsellor
Countering Client Hostility with Radical Candor
Where Do the Therapist’s Tears Come From
Thinking of You Too
A Revealing Moment
Successful Intervention with a Family Impacted by Treatment-Resistant BPD
Ancestral Narrative Building: A Path to Healing Generational Trauma
That Tipsy Session: The Power of Self-Disclosure
When Psychotherapist and Client Share Similar Crises
Finding a New Normal in the Era of COVID
A Path Towards Self-Compassion and Healing
Russell Ramsay on Attending to ADHD in Adulthood
Unlocked: Online Therapy Stories
Psychocardiology: Psychotherapists Helping Cardiac Patients
Exploring Our Client’s Multiverse
Therapeutic Reflections of a Former Gang Member
The Pregnant Correctional Practitioner: Challenges and Benefits
Fellow Therapists: Do You Work With Sex Offenders?
Gratitude and Grit
A Man, A Car, and a Metaphor
In the Same Leaky Boat: Being a Parent and Therapist
Costumed Authenticity: Building Trust in LGBTQ+ Telehealth
A Walk in the Park
Psychodermatology: Understanding the Mental Health Component of Skin Conditions
Jude Austin on Wisdom for Counseling Students and Educators
Overcoming the Pernicious Chronicle
A Matter of Death and Life
The Pygmalion Effect and Treating Incarcerated Individuals with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
Relief or Change? Which is the Most Meaningful?
Redesign Your Mind in an Instant
Less Treatment, More Therapy
A Universe Opens: Reflections On My First Session as a Therapist
Laurie Helgoe on the Power and Challenges of Introversion
Watch this Movie and Call Me in the Morning
Counseling Gifted Clients: Journeys through the Rainforest Mind
The Flash Technique: A Useful Tool in Treating Trauma
Sometimes I Also Feel Lazy: A Clinician Reflects on Self-Disclosure
Gratitude to the Anonymous Client: A Poem
Reframing the Legacy of Ancestral Trauma as Resilience
Long-Term Psychotherapy and BPD, Part 2: A Dialogue on Trust
Finding the Goldilocks Zone: An Antidote to Black-and-White Thinking
Long Term Psychotherapy and BPD, Part 1: A Dialogue on Hope
Jessica Stone on Play Therapy in the Digital Age
Pandemic Lessons for Introverts (and their Therapists)
Imagining the Way to Self-Compassion Using the Ideal Parent Figure Protocol
Holding Two Worlds Together—Apart: On the Duality of Being a Therapist
Interpersonal Connection: Noticing the Needs of Others
Help-Seeking-Rejecting Clients and The Therapist
Countertransference to Sexual and Developmental Trauma in the Psychoanalysis of a Disabled Patient
Strengthening the Online Counseling Relationship: Helpful Tele-Tips
Emergent Anxiety: Facing a Post-COVID Life
The Upward Arrow and the Golden Rule
Russell Siler Jones on Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy
Existential-Humanistic Therapy in the Age of COVID-19 in Vulnerable Populations
The Quarantine Void: A Reminder of the Central Role of Being
Caring for those Who Care for Our Pets
Being Black and a Clinician During 2020: A Trainee
A Therapist’s Best Friend
Treating the Compulsive Personality: Transforming Poison into Medicine
The Four Brahmaviharas and the Quiet Inner Voice
What the APA Apology Means for Black Psychiatry
Understanding the Pandemic’s Impact Through a Developmental Lens
Termination: A Process by Any Other Name
The Thought Process Underlying Perfectionism and How Therapists Can Help
Accurate Empathy is the Heartbeat of Rogerian Psychotherapy
Tokophobia: Recognizing the Multifaceted Fear of Pregnancy and Childbirth
The Secret Sauce for Mixing up a World-Class Psychotherapy Blog
The Queen’s Gambit and Me: The Surprising Similarity Between Therapy and Chess
Do You Believe in Cats?
How an Anti-Tech Group Therapist Became a True Believer
Whose Metaphor Is It, Anyway?
The Story is Everything
Standing Up to Microaggression: A Clinician’s Experience
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Working Towards Therapeutic Solutions with Men
Some Thoughts on What Makes A Relationship Successful
Eating Disorder Triggers and COVID-19: A Guide for Psychotherapists
The Therapist and the Marriage
Reflections on a Year Soon Gone
When the Novelty Wears Off
COVID-19 and the De-Stigmatization of Therapy
Healing the Authoritarian Wound Through Writing: 8 Writing Exercises to Share with Clients
The Virtue of Metaphors
COVID, Counseling, and Caution: Ethical and Relational Concerns
The Performance Trap
Anastasia Piatakhina Giré on Teletherapy, Borders and Building Bridges
Treating the Narcissistic Injury of a Narcissist
Introducing Grief: How My Clients and I Have Embraced the Exploration of Loss
Eating Disorders, Couples, and COVID-19
Has Psychotherapy Lost Its Mind?
Preserving Connection in the Age of Polarization and Commodification
2020, The Summer of No
20 Seconds: Coming Out to a Client
When a Client Resists, I Persist
Us Versus It: Racism, Family Treatment, and Eco-Systemic Considerations
Consigned to Virtual Therapy
The Uneven Effects of the Pandemic
Dangerous Intimacies: Racism, Risk, and Recovery
The Double Standard
The I-Thou Relationship in the Age of Telehealth
A Silent Dialogue: Coming Together During Troubling Times
Imagine If We Could All Love This Way: Connection, Healing and Love in the Therapeutic Relationship
My Psychotherapist, My Guru
Center of the World
Family Therapy in the Age of Zoom: What a Long Strange Trip It Has Been
Tools to Help My Patients
Barriers and the Black Experience in Mental Health Care
Treating the Somatic Sequelae of Moral Injury
I’m So Glad My Parents Are Dead
Don?t Worry, Be Happy!
Beverly Greene on Race, Racism and Psychotherapy
The Ask: Engaging Fellow Therapists of Color During Turbulent Times
Helping Domestic Abuse Victims During Quarantine
Questioning the “Ditch the Desk” Theory of Therapy
Lesson Not Learned
Psychotherapy with Coronavirus: A Novel Experience
Race, Racism and Therapy: Don’t Expect to Get Comfortable
Don’t Shoot the Messenger
Patients Who Lie
Online Therapy: From Both Sides Now
Phases of Coping with the Pandemic
Countertransference: How Are We Doing?
Finding the Perch: Psychotherapy During Mutual Uncertainty and Grief
Marching On
Stuck In a Cold Shower
The Puzzle of Therapy
What Happens to the Path Not Taken?
Blind Side
I’m So Glad You Stopped Me
An Indelible Impression
The Last Responder
A Place Both Wonderful and Strange
Beyond Resilience: Addressing Moral Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dreaming in the Time of Coronavirus
Choosing Between Model Adherence and the Rabbit Trail
Spring
An Opportunity Amidst the Crisis: Moving Your Practice Online
The Healers: Therapy in the Time of a Pandemic
Bret Moore on Military Psychology and Getting the Mission Done*
Good Enough
New Futures for Older Clients: Psychotherapy as Art
When Home is Not Where the Heart Is
Therapy from Home: Dress Shirt and Sweatpants
Fellow Travelers During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Play Therapy and the Pandemic:
Closing the Deal: The Art of Selling Yourself to New Clients
Moving Your Practice Online During the Coronavirus Crisis
Working with Trauma During the COVID-19 Pandemic
When Caregiving Hurts: A Counselor
You Want Me to Accept This #*$%?
Counseling in the Time of Coronavirus
Integrating Technology into Mental Healthcare: Theory and Practice
When Your Therapy Client Ghosts You
Usha Tummala-Narra on Living Multicultural Competence
When a Client Threatens You
Oh, That It Were So Simple
En Attente (On Hold)
The Comforts of What We Know
Group Practice and its Discontents
Asian-American Suicide
Ego Liberation: A Buddhist Guide to Escaping Your Mental Prison
Podcasts and the Couch: An Effective Supplement to Couples Counseling
The Case of Ebenezer Scrooge: Therapeutic Reflections on A Christmas Carol
Trinkets, Tokens and Totems: Identity Renewal and the Rainbow Girl
The Clinical Benefits of Required Continuing Education
David Nylund on Narrative Therapy, Curiosity and Queertopia
Counseling the Stone Boys: Helping Boys and Men Who Have Been Sexually Abused
A Case Study of Perfectly Hidden Depression
Reviving the Real Self: Why We Should All Be Reading Karen Horney
Who’s Listening? Smartphones and Psychotherapy
3 Techniques Masterful Psychotherapists Use in Every Session
Show or Tell: Therapeutic Communication as Theater
Analyzing the Game
Seeds of Self-Compassion
Barry Duncan on The Heart and Soul of Change
#DigitalTriad
The Importance of Admitting a Mistake in Therapy
Managing Emotion in Sports
Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy: The Healing Power of Horses within Clinical Practice
What’s the Limit? Maintaining and Understanding Boundaries in Psychotherapy
Nightmares are Easily Treatable, Though Too Few Seek Help
“Are you Thor?”
Trauma and the Reproductive Story
“I Want You to Be There.”: Accompanying a Client Through a Death
Monitoring Engagement in Clinical Supervision
An Ending Without Closure
Daryl Chow on Reigniting Clinical Supervision
Internal Emigration & Online Therapy
Addiction: What Glory in the High Recidivism Rate?
When the Grass Becomes Greener
Grasping at Optimism: When Helping a Suicidal Client Means Letting Life Happen
Dual Aspect Monism: Centering Psychotherapy on Mind
It’s Time for Supervisors to Help Clinicians Marry Data with Intuition
The Performing Art of Therapy: Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians
Premature Endings: When Clients Leave Therapists
Think Act Be: A Whole Person Approach to Healing
Qualia and Quiddities in Psychotherapy
How to Master the Art of Developing Your Therapeutic Voice
Psychotherapy and Autism
My First Private Patient
The Tiger Woods Analogy for Therapists Makes a Roaring Comeback!
Unlearning to Learn
Circle of Development: How Clinical Supervisors Can Help You Get to Your Growth Edge
The Murder of Hope
Jay Lappin on Family Therapy—The Long View
How to Maintain Your Therapeutic Dignity with Blood Dripping Down Your Chin
A Tale of Two Cars: Interpreting Therapeutic Play
How Self-Disclosure of Learning Differences Guides My Clinical Relationships
The Instant Replay: Reliving a Critical Moment
The Shape of Hopelessness
Addressing Common (and Reasonable) Myths About Exposure-Based Therapy for Child Anxiety
Three Types of Knowledge Clinical Supervisors Need to Know
Chocolate, Jalape
Money Matters in Therapy
When the Clinician Becomes a Client
Is That a Monkey on my Back? No, It
Why I Hate Alzheimer’s
The 7 Ways Psychotherapists Undermine Psychotherapy
Coping with Infidelity in Professional Couples
Judith Grisel on Addiction, Neuroscience and Choice
Finally Getting Sober
That Certain Feeling: “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)”
Seven Mistakes in Clinical Supervision and How to Avoid Them
Tips for Working with Vegan Clients
Anxiety Management: It
Advanced Harm Reduction: Managing Intoxicated Clients
Talkspace: The New Therapy Room
Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: The Prelude to Healing
Michael Gurian on Masculinity, Neuroscience and Psychotherapy
The F**k-it Button in Clinical Practice
Therapeutic Fanfiction: Rewriting Society
What Do I Say Now? Coping with Uncertainty in Unstructured Psychotherapy
Listening Up and Leaning In: Active Listening in Therapeutic Relationships
Advocating for the LGBTQIAA in Psychotherapy
Responding to an Immediate Negative Transference
Combatting Anxiety,
Train Professionals, Not Just Therapists
Hidden Losses
Online Therapy: An Unexpected Space of Freedom
Therapy with a Condom On
Working with Silence
Depth
Joseph Burgo on Shame, Narcissism and the Art of Empathy
Changing Places
Russian Doll as Case Study: Lessons for Therapists
Introducing Multi-Lens Therapy
From Cultural Competence to Cultural Humility & Equity
Dreaming of the Future
Let’s Meet in the Middle
Never Talk to a Therapist at a Party
The Masculinity Trap: A Science-Based Response to the APA Guidelines
Embracing Chronic Anger: A Prescription for Disempowerment
Digital Technology and Parenting:
Goldilocks and the Three Couches: Finding Your Own
Bilingualism as a Necessary Clinical Competence
Erica Anderson on Working Therapeutically Across the Gender Spectrum
Doctors Are People, Too
Having the Hard Conversations in Sport
Language as Boundary
The Value of Evidence-Based Treatment That Fails
What Am I Going to Do with all This Stuff?
Where You
Hotel Room Therapy
What Blocks Creativity
Therapy with Latinx DACA Clients and Their Families: A Therapist’s Primer
Shame Part 4: I Deserve to Feel Bad, Because I am Bad
Teaching Adolescents Mindfulness Using the Morita Therapy Concept
Janelle Johnson on College Counseling
In Support of Supportive Therapy
Treating the Physical Effects of Depression
Why Modern Clinical Psychology is in Trouble (And How Basic Empirical Research Can Help)
That’s Child Abuse
Deliberate Practice in Psychotherapy
Anti-Aging Psychotherapy: Dr. Ellen Langer Versus Your Green Smoothie
The Internal Critic: Friend or Foe?
Uncovering and Intervening in the Narcissistic Abuse Cycle
How to Build an Ethical Social Media Presence
Helping Caregivers Find the Kid Inside
Joyce Mills on StoryPlay®, Metaphor and the Enduring Legacy of Milton Erickson
Countertransference is not a Flesh-Eating Disease
Might Physical Activity be an Effective Antidepressant?
David Jobes on Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality
Surviving Attacks in Psychotherapy – An Occupational Hazard
Working with Teens: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Paying It Forward: A Fulfilling Reframe
Neurodiversity: A Dangerous Extension of a Discredited Philosophy
Family Therapy and Yoga: A Connection?
David Barlow on Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders
Superiority and Contempt
Treating Eating Disorders as Disorders of Eating
The Lose-Lose Comment: A Therapist
I Dont Know How To Be Sorry
Reflections of a Psychology Resident in Trauma and Acute Care
A Counselor Visits the US/Mexico Border
The Luggage Tag
Choice: My Lighthouse in a Wave of Disillusionment
Should Therapists Have Scales in their Offices?
Give Me that Feedback
When the Snow-Globe Shatters: A Counselor
Do We Really Know What We Look Like?
Supply and Demand Psychotherapy
Trusting Her Voices: Trusting My Own
The One Thing a Therapist Should Never Say to a Client
The Modular View of the Mind
Jose Rey on Psychotropic Medications: A Primer for Psychotherapists
In Praise of the Life of a Psychotherapist
Finding Playfulness in the Seriousness
Why the Therapist
On Holding Your Tongue
Shame Part 2: Shame Proneness
Shame Part 1: Walls are Fears Disguised as Safety
Teen Heroes with Feet of Clay: The Dilemma of a Pop-Culture Psychotherapist
Bare: Psychotherapy Stripped
The Healer that is Hurting
A Barbie in Paris
What Do a Mango Tree and Child Therapy Have in Common?
Allen Frances on the DSM-5, Mental Illness and Humane Treatment
Burning Out After Jumping In: Reflections From the F
The Acronymization of Psychotherapy and Mental Illness
When Your Client Dreams about You
Imagine You Are a Smart Phone
Why Therapists Choose Online Therapy for Themselves
How To Help Your Clients Undo What They Haven’t Yet Done
Countertransference in the Rearview Mirror May Be Closer Than it Appears
The Not-So-Great Gatsby: An Illustrative Look at the Use of Literature in a Therapy Session
Eliana Gil on Play Therapy and Working with Traumatized Children
Superheroes in Psychotherapy?
The $5 Snake Phobia Cure
O Psychotherapy, Where Art Thou?
The Power of Naming
Reflections on Evolution of Psychotherapy 2017
Teaching Clients to Meditate
Janina Fisher on Innovations in Treating Trauma
What is Mental Illness? Donald Trump and the Psychiatrists Who Would Diagnose Him
PhDs in Therapy
The Death of Privacy
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir
12 Things You Didn’t Know About Milton H. Erickson and His Daughter Betty Alice Erickson
Grief is a Strange Land
Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop
Anna Lembke on the Opioid Epidemic
Alcoholics Anonymous Founder Bill Wilson’s Long-Lost Treatment Paradigm
Psychotherapy “Terminations” and Beyond
Are High-Risk Clients Suitable for Online Psychotherapy?
Bruce Wampold on What Actually Makes Us Good Therapists
Straight Life Cycle/Queer Life
Tony Rousmaniere on Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists
Why Every Therapist Should Read Dr. Robert Firestone’s New Book “Overcoming the Destructive Inner Voice: True Stories of Therapy and Transformation”
Why Clients Choose Online Therapy
If You Kill Yourself, Don’t Make a Mess: Paradoxical Intention with a Suicidal Client
William Richards on Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy and Mystical Experiences
Ayahuasca Is My Therapist (Or Is It?)
Wisdom from a Customer
A New Year for Psychotherapists
Tea with Freud: An Imaginary Conversation About How Psychotherapy Really Works
Margo Maine on the Eating Disorder Epidemic Among Middle-Aged Women
Dreamwork in Stereo
The Gloria Films: Candid answers to questions therapists ask most
The Rolling Stones and the “Age of Anxiety”
Louis Cozolino on the Integration of Neuroscience into Psychotherapy—and its Limitations
Intuitive Therapy
Queer Couch for the Straight Girl
The Multiple Languages of Therapy
Robert J. Lifton on Political Violence, Activism and Life as a Psycho-Historian
Bad Therapy: When Firing Your Therapist Is Therapeutic
Afflicted with Affect
Look at me!
House Call Revival
The Socially Awkward Therapist
The Imprisoned Brain: Psychotherapy with Inmates in Jail
Spencer Niles on the Latest Developments in Career Counseling
A Little Girl in a Dark Corner
Whiteness Matters: Exploring White Privilege, Color Blindness and Racism in Psychotherapy
Nothing To Say
The Secret to Getting More Therapy Referrals from Smartphone Users
Jill Scharff on Object Relations Therapy with Couples
Hide-and-Seek in Online Therapy
Statistics Don’t Lie…Except When They Do
Lynn Grodzki on Building a Successful Private Practice
Losing Faith: Arguing for a New Way to Think About Therapy
Our Psychological Crisis: Making Sense of the American Psychological Associations Collusion with Torture
Brian McNeill on the Art of Supervision
In Bed With Your Therapist: The Paradoxical Intimacy of Online Psychotherapy
Birthplace
Allan Schore on the Science of the Art of Psychotherapy
What Remains: The Aftermath of Patient Suicide
Je Taime…Me Neither
Losing the Couch: Finding the “Sacred Place” in Online Therapy
Ronald Siegel on Integrating Mindfulness into Psychotherapy
Thupten Jinpa on Fearless Compassion
Psychotherapy in the Year 2045
Brooklyn Zoo: The Education of a Psychotherapist
Heather Clague on Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Working with Society’s Most Marginalized Populations
Creative Writing as Psychotherapy
Creatures of a Day
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
Gary Greenberg on the DSM and Its Woes
In Search of the Perfect Private Practitioner
Why Some Therapists Always Get Their Books Published
Bad Therapy: Lets Talk About Torture…Wait, What????!!!
Psychotherapy and the Care of Souls
Lynn Ponton on the Challenges and Joys of Working with Teens
Bad Therapy: What You Didn’t Learn in Grad School
Francine Shapiro on the Evolution of EMDR Therapy
When the Therapist Loves and Hates
What every therapist needs to know about the new natural remedies for mental health
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk on Trauma, Development and Healing
Brad Strawn on Integrating Religion and Psychotherapy
Therapy: A Poem
On Quitting The Practice of Psychotherapy
Counseling Kids: When a Cigar Is Just a Cigar
A Short Piece on Disrespecting Teenagers
Psychotherapy with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients
Thomas Moore on the Soul of Psychotherapy
The No-Fee Session
After the Diagnosis: Helping Patients Cope With their Emotions
Howard Kassinove on Anger Management
Fear and Consciousness: What I Learned from a Bike Accident
I’m Rubber, You’re Glue
Psychotherapy with Alien Beings: Cultural Competence (and Incompetence) in Psychotherapy Practice
Eduardo Duran on Psychotherapy with Native Americans
Listening as Meditation
The Thousand-Armed Therapist
Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
Anita Barrows on Love, Poetry and Autism
John Sommers-Flanagan on Clinical Interviewing and the Highly Unmotivated Client
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Scott Miller on Why Most Therapists Are Just Average (and How We Can Improve)
Leave Your Degree at the Door, Dude
Just Peachy
Dial-Up Connection
Jean McLendon on the Legacy of Virginia Satir
Paradise Lost: When Clients Commit Suicide
Infertility on Both Sides of the Couch
Calisthenics in Front of the Fun House Mirror
George Silberschatz on Psychotherapy Research and Its Discontents
Technology and Psychotherapy
Charles Mansueto on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
The Dark Intruder
Psychiatry by the Dumpster: One Man’s Struggle with OCD
Talk is Cheap. Really.
Clocked
The Power of Custom in Psychotherapy
Our Hungry Selves: Women, Eating and Identity
Steven Hayes on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Embracing Your Demons: An Overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The Ones That Get Away
When Life Gets Messy, Don’t Cut and Run!
Verbal Ventilation: The highway to intimacy and the key process of therapy
Gone in 60 Seconds: How to Handle a Mental Health Workshop Heckler
Diana Fosha on Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
Transforming War Trauma: The Healing Power of Community
The Lying Artist
The Therapist and the Fee: Why Everything Works out and Also Doesn
Self-Care for Therapists
Psychoanalysis is Alive and Well
Vanquishing the Inner Critic
Through the Anger Looking Glass
When East Doesn’t Meet West: Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Michael Lambert on Preventing Treatment Failures (and Why You’re Not as Good as You Think)
The God of Psychoanalysis
The “L” Word
Seeing Medusa in Every Client
Christian Conte on Anger Management
The Tao of Anger Management: A Yield Theory Approach
Treating a Couple After an Affair
Why Its Time to Take Mobile Seriously
True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
Tara Brach on Mindfulness, Psychotherapy and Awakening
Continuous outcome assessment
The Healing Power of Writing
Philip Guerin on Bowenian Family Therapy
Encounters with Suicide: A Psychotherapist Remembers Not to Forget
The Truth About Facebook and Your Practice
Mental Illness in Politics
Who Cares About Creativity?
Reid Wilson on Strategic Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Emotional Healing Through Creativity (Or: How Creativity Got a Bad Name and What We Can Do About It)
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Who Else Wants To Know Why Americans Spell Counseling With A Single “L”?
Albert Ellis and the Traveling Road Show
Philip Kendall on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
The Joy of Small Miracles in Psychotherapy
Grief and Gratitude: Working with Stroke Survivors
Paul Wachtel on Therapeutic Communication
The Miraculous (or not) Efficacy of Solution-Focused Therapy
Psychotherapy: Terminal or Interminable
Cathy Cole on Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing in End-of-Life Care
Ethics of Treating Two Psychotherapy Clients who Know Each Other
Maria Gonzalez-Blue on Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy
First Impressions in Psychotherapy
The Spinoza Problem: An Excerpt
Two Therapy Poems
Psychotherapy with Older Adults: Unjustified Fears, Unrecognized Rewards
Esther Perel on Mating in Captivity
Videotaping Therapy
Assessing Partner Abuse in Couples Therapy
Is Self-Regulation or Co-Regulation Better for Couples?
John Arden on Brain-Based Therapy
Techniques, Therapeutic Relationship and the Importance of the Body
Nordstrom: Psychotherapy Lessons From The Cathedral Of Commerce
The Whole Truth: Coping Creatively with the Dark Side of Therapeutic Practice
Eda Gorbis on Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Conduct Therapy Sessions Like Ellis Or Rogers In 7 Days Or Your Money Back!
Ethical Guidelines: Do We Really Want What Is Best For Our Clients?
How One Desperate St. Louis Psychotherapist Cured A Schizophrenic
Interrupting the Conversation: Gestalt Therapy Here and Now
Violet Oaklander on Gestalt Therapy with Children
The God of Hellfire Will See You Now
Robin Rosenberg on Treating Eating Disorders
Sleep and the Therapist: A Poem
Supervision of Executive Coaching
James Gilligan on the Psychology and Treatment of Violent Offenders
Psychotherapy with Former Cult Members
Training for the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Listening versus Hearing in Psychotherapy
Sue Johnson on Emotionally Focused Therapy
Awakening to Awe: A Book Review
Turning Blaming into Confiding in Couples Therapy
Training in Couples Therapy
Lonnie Barbach on Sex Therapy
The 7 real reasons why psychotherapists flunk their licensing and certification exams
Training in Microexpressions
Couch Fiction
Frank Ochberg on Treating PTSD
Treating Special Clients in Psychotherapy
The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist
Free Psychotherapy Training
Collaborative Couple Therapy With High Conflict Couples
Fact and Fiction in Psychology
Working in the Here-and-Now of the Therapeutic Relationship
Molyn Leszcz on Group Psychotherapy
Interacting Sensitivities in Couples Therapy
The Lake Wobegon Effect
Eysenck, Rogers and Psychotherapy Effectiveness
Psychotherapy outcomes: The best therapy or the best therapist?
Preventing Psychotherapy Dropouts with Client Feedback
Stan Tatkin on a Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy
Psychotherapy Training on Steroids: Remote Live Supervision
Rules for a Good Relationship
Alan Marlatt on Harm Reduction Therapy
Trusting the Client as the Agent of Change
Suicide During the Holidays . . . Not So Much!
It’s Over Now: Termination and Countertransference
Nancy McWilliams on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
What if Its All Been a Big Fat Psychotherapeutic Lie?
Bids for Emotional Connection in Couples Therapy
Methinks Jay Haley Hit the Bulls Eye
How Therapists Fail: Why Too Many Clients Drop Out of Therapy Prematurely
Duped and Recouped
Mark Epstein on Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
Working with the Unemotional in Emotionally Focused Therapy
Why a Therapist Should Care About a Clients Favorite Brand of Shampoo
Receiving Gifts in Psychotherapy
Memories of Stonehenge, 1984: Conference of Women Family Therapists
Its the Psychiatric Meds, Stupid!
Empowering Clients in Couples Therapy
Harry Aponte on Structural Family Therapy
Walking A Tightrope: Family Therapy with Adolescents and Their Families
Ethical and Legal Issues in Telephone Therapy
Gottman and Gray: The Two Johns
A Psychotherapist Returning from Vacation
Kenneth Doka on Grief Counseling and Psychotherapy
David Wallin on Attachment and Psychotherapy
Owen Renik on Practical Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Erving Polster on Gestalt Therapy
Monica McGoldrick on Family Therapy
Peter Levine on Somatic Experiencing
Hanna Levenson on Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy
Jeffrey Kottler on Being a Therapist
Mardi Horowitz on Psychotherapy Research and Happiness
Lisa Firestone on Psychotherapy with Suicidal Clients
Stephanie Brown on Treating Addictions in Psychotherapy
The Psychiatric Repression of Thomas Szasz: Its Social and Political Significance
What Do We Believe and Whom Do We Trust?
Psychotherapy with Medically Ill Patients: Hope in the Trenches
Michael Yapko on Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Depression
Irvin Yalom on Existential Psychotherapy and Death Anxiety
Dan Wile on Collaborative Couples Therapy
Thomas Szasz on Freedom and Psychotherapy
Ernest Rossi on Mind-Body Therapy
Frank Pittman on Growing Up and Taking Responsibility
Augustus Napier on Experiential Family Therapy
Zerka Moreno on Psychodrama
Donald Meichenbaum on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Madeline Levine on Psychotherapy with Adolescents
Ronald Levant on Psychotherapy with Men
Ron Kurtz on the Hakomi Method
Otto Kernberg on Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Michael Hoyt on Brief and Narrative Therapy
Susan Heitler on Couples Therapy
Kenneth V. Hardy on Multiculturalism and Psychotherapy
John Gottman on Couples Therapy
Nick Cummings on the Past and Future of Psychotherapy
James Bugental on Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy
Larry Beutler on Science and Psychotherapy
Insoo Kim Berg on Brief Solution-Focused Therapy
Looking Out the Patient’s Window Redux: Self-disclosure and Genuineness
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
The Gift of Therapy
The Schopenhauer Cure
Emotional Flashback Management in the Treatment of Complex PTSD
When the Therapist Leaves: A Personal Account of an Unusual Termination
The Empty Chair: Making Our Absence Less Traumatic for Everyone
Transition Into Sports Psychology
A Few Simple Questions
Tyranny of Niceness: A Psychotherapeutic Challenge
Lessons from the Depths: Scuba Diving and Psychotherapy with Men
The Man with the Beautiful Voice
Family Therapy and Resistant Parents: The Child Cannot Wait
The Path to Wholeness: Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy
Psychotherapy for Oppositional-Defiant Kids with Low Frustration Tolerance – and How to Help Their Parents, Too
Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients
The Tao of Direction: Structure and Process in Clinical Supervision
Clinical Wisdom: A Psychoanalyst Learns from his Mistakes
How To Be A Grown-up Even Around Your Own Parents
Work Is Life: A Psychologist Looks at Identity and Work in America
Breaking Barriers to Doing Corporate Consulting
Hollywood on the Couch
Psychotherapy in China: Western and Eastern Perspectives
Resistant Clients: We’ve All Had Them; Here’s How to Help Them!
Supershrinks: What is the secret of their success?
Beyond Psychotherapy: Working Outside the Medical Model
The Therapist Mourns His Mother’s Death: Being With Clients While Heartbroken
Angels in Crisis: How Mobile Crisis Intervention Changes Lives
Self-Help Snake Oil and Self-Improvement Urban Legends
A Psychotherapist’s Guide to Facebook and Twitter: Why Clinicians Should Give a Tweet!
Black and White Witchcraft: A Cultural Crossroads in Paris Inspires Therapeutic Innovation
My, How Couples Therapy has Changed! Attachment, Love and Science
Letting the Patient Matter: Some Thoughts on Irvin Yalom’s View of the Therapeutic Relationship
Cancer and The Secret
Weekends At Bellevue: A Memoir
Food for the Soul
Where’s the Bear?
In Search of Self: My Therapy with Rogers, Satir, Bugental, Polster, Yalom, & Maslow
When a Patient Dies . . . Should the Therapist Attend the Funeral?
Lowering Fees in Hard Times: The Meaning Behind the Money
Words Against the Void: Poems by an Existential Psychologist
Existential Poems
Therapeutic Alliance, Focus, and Formulation: Thinking Beyond the Traditional Therapy Orientations
Healing Trauma Through the Body: The Way In is the Way Out
“When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad I’m better”: A New Mantra for Psychotherapists
A Crash Course in Psychotherapy: Moving through Anxiety and Self-Doubt
Family Therapy with Families Facing Catastrophic Illness: Building Internal and External Resources
Shades of Gray: When a therapist and her client are survivors of child abuse
Psychotherapy Isn’t What You Think: Bringing the Psychotherapeutic Engagement into the Living Moment
The Family Research Project: A Summary
9/11 One Year Later: A Psychotherapist Reflects on His Experiences at Ground Zero
Edna Foa on Prolonged Exposure Therapy
Transforming the Wounds of Racism: An Autoethnographic Exploration and Implications for Psychotherapy
Getting Off to a Powerful Start in Couples Therapy
Don Clark on Psychotherapy with Gay Clients
H2O Under the Bridge: A Case of Trichotillomania
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