Laughter and humor in therapy are signs of an authentic presence and, if humor comes naturally to you, it can greatly enhance outcome.
Radical Listening is the Secret Ingredient to Successful Psychotherapy
Discover how quieting your own voice can lead to more healing moments with your clients.
Travis Heath on Psychotherapy as an Act of Rebellion
Join Psychotherapy.net’s editor Lawrence Rubin in a fascinating conversation with clinician/educator/author Dr. Travis Heath as they deconstruct and rebuild the practice of psychotherapy.
Storytelling in Counseling Is Often the Key to Successful Outcomes
Listening with curiosity and concern to therapy clients’ stories can bring about deep and lasting change.
How to Resurrect a Dying Relationship One Emotion at a Time
Therapists can help faltering relationships by staving off the “erosion of affection.”
How to Help Veterans Haunted by War Reclaim Their Humanity
A compassionate clinician helps a wounded war veteran reclaim his sense of humanity.
McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
In a provocative excerpt from his “McMindfulness” treatise, Ronald Purser suggests that mindfulness training without societal change does little more than fuel capitalism and deflect responsibility from society to the individual.
Using the Power of Play Therapy to Free a Frightened Child
Play therapy has the power to bring a child from the isolation of anxiety to the light of connection.
Healing Conversations: Giving Life to the Life of a Person Who Died by Suicide*
A compassionate therapist gently and skillfully guides suffering parents through the shadow of their son’s suicide.
The Existential Importance of the Penis: A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality – Daniel N. Watter, EdD
In this excerpt from “The Existential Importance of the Penis: A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality”, sex therapist Daniel Watter helps us to appreciate how existential issues often lay just below the surface in sex therapy.