By providing a safe space for clients to voice all their thoughts and feelings, especially their most repressed or shameful ones, therapists can help clients heal.
Reflections on Clinical Techniques for Working with Loss
A clinical therapist reflects on ways she’s helped herself and others to manage the painful experience of losing clients and colleagues.
Gardening Narratives and Storyliving Ones Life
A Brazilian narrative therapist takes us on a journey through a lush garden of metaphors she uses in her clinical work to add enthusiasm and imagination to her questions.
How In-Person Sessions Create Space for Clients Unspeakable Truths
After taking a risk by addressing her clients nonverbal communication, leading to a breakthrough in their sessions, a therapist reflects on the limits of remote therapy.
Existential-Spiritual Techniques for Fostering a Healthy Perspective on Aging
Using existential-humanistic therapy, a psychotherapist helps older clients navigate the presenting problem of grief and loss while celebrating life.
Postmodern Play Therapy: Helping a Child Overcome their “Trouble Energy”
A play therapist harnesses superhero-based interventions rooted in Narrative Therapy to help a client free himself from what they identify as “trouble energy.”
Psychodynamic Therapies: How Did We Get Here & Where Are We Going?
Psychiatrist Allen Frances reviews the past and present contributions of psychodynamic therapies, and offers hope for therapists pursuing this rewarding career path.
Ink Therapy: Harnessing the Power of Vintage Self-Help Books
In embracing the wisdom of early self-help literature, clients struggling with addiction, depression, anxiety, or other challenges, can unlock insight from the past.
Losing the Atmosphere, A Memoir: A Baffling Disorder, a Search for Help, and the Therapist Who Understood
In a poignant memoir chronicling her return to wholeness, Vivian Conan, with the help of her therapist, Jeffery Smith, shares her tortuous yet liberating journey.
Teaching Prisoners to Lead Grief Support Groups
A talented and compassionate clinician teaches prison inmates innovative support group methods to comfort their terminally ill peers.