Successful family therapy must consider social media and app use — the empty chair in the room — to draw a complete map of the family.
Death Cafes: You’re Going Where?
Death Cafes can be a very powerful and effective means of helping clients address their own mortality and death outside of the therapy room.
Imagined into Agency: Goth Lolita Comes to Life
A creative Narrative therapist helps a lonely, depressed client liberate herself from lifelong depression through poetry and imagination.
Where Do You Draw the Line Between Psychotherapy and Coaching?
A psychotherapist and coach reflects on the differences and similarities of counseling and coaching, both helping disciplines with increasing intersectionality.
How to Help Clients Change the Narrative of Aging
By viewing aging as an adventure, gerontologist William Randall offers alternative narratives to counselors and clinicians working with older adults.
Psychotherapy with a WW II Survivor: Bearing Grief with Grace
Decades after her tragic losses at Nagasaki, an octogenarian client bears her deepest pain with grace while silently mourning.
Krista Tippett on the Immensity of Our Lives
Departing from tradition, our Editor, Lawrence Rubin, turns the microphone on Peabody Award-winning journalist Krista Tippett to explore questions around what it means to be truly human
A Therapist Uses Her Grief as a Resource for Working with Trauma
Memories of a happy childhood can help therapists working with traumatized children, adults, and families
Addressing Countertransference in Grief Counseling
A therapist shares her experiences working with two grieving clients and how attending to countertransference improved her ability to help them address anger and pain
Current Developments in Clinical Suicidology and Mental Health Crisis Management
Therapists, counselors and mental health professionals working with suicidal clients and those in crisis have many valuable resources available including the 988 Lifeline.