A creative therapist helps a client struggling with OCD by focusing on her heart rather than her mind.
A Foster Child’s Painful Visit with his Mother
Share a rare and poignant glimpse into a foster child’s perception of his visit to see his biological mother.
Supporting Recently Traumatized Youth in a Crisis of Dissociation and Self-Harm
A skilled therapist guides us through a riveting session with a young, brutally traumatized client as she struggles to regain a foothold into her previous life.
Psychotherapy with Dissociative Identity Disorder
A compassionate clinician helps a traumatized and troubled client reintegrate the many cut off parts of herself.
Suicidal Debates with Clients in Psychotherapy
A clinician learns five invaluable truths about depression from his clients on the road to helping them avoid the dark alley of suicide.
What Can Therapists Offer the Larger World?
In this excerpt from “Becoming a Citizen Therapist: Integrating Community Problem-Solving into Your Work as a Healer,” Bill Doherty and Tai Mendenhall lay out a roadmap for helping clinicians transition from private practitioner to community educator therapist.
How Clinical Empathy Can Restore the Impact of Invalidating Medical Experiences
Drawing upon his own personally invalidating experience during medical treatment, a therapist pays forward lessons of empathy.
Psychologists Struggle Too: How Shame Keeps Us Silent
Psychologist Shannon Swales shares her very personal journey through burnout, mental illness, and shame to recovery, hope, and helping others.
Virtual Treatment of Eating Disorders and the Importance of Human Connection
A Clinician who struggled through an eating disorder in adolescence overcomes the limitations of virtual therapy to connect with a similarly struggling teen.
Rick Miller on the Clinical Challenges of Working with Gay Sons, Mothers, and Families
Psychotherapist Rick Miller discusses the challenges and benefits of working with gay men and their mothers.