Psychotherapy.net’s founder, entrepreneur, artist, and psychotherapist Victor Yalom shares insights learned and applied from working with the masters.
Self-Esteem is Overrated. Here’s Why Self-Compassion is Better
Ditch the binary metrics of good and bad self-esteem. When you and your clients focus on self-compassion instead, you’ll build better outcomes, nurture empathy and develop a more authentic therapeutic presence.
Improving Your Clinical Presence with Receptivity and Gratitude
Being fully present and expressing authentic gratitude can go a long way towards helping your clients heal in therapy.
How to Overcome Self-Doubt as a Therapist
Even seasoned psychotherapists experience self-doubt. So, what do you do when you don’t if you’re helping?
How to Focus on Emotions to Help Volatile Couples Reconnect
Therapeutic empathy and an emotional focus are a powerful blueprint for successfully counseling volatile couples.
Powerful Ways to Improve Your Presence with Suicidal Clients
Therapists and counselors can use these exercises to enhance their therapeutic presence and strengthen their alliances with suicidal clients.
Surrounded by the Village Idiots
In an excerpt from Good Morning Monster, psychotherapist Catherine Gildiner recalls the painful lesson learned from her first day as a therapist.
How to Improve Your Therapy with Playfulness
Incorporating humor and occasional lightheartedness can be a highly effective therapeutic tool.
Can Psychotherapy Really Survive the Onslaught of Venture Capitalism?
With the entry of private equity firms into the mental health arena, clinicians must quickly become educated consumers for their own sake and that of their clients.
Psychotherapy Behind Prison Walls. Does it Really Help?
Working with neurodivergent clients in prison requires clinicians to step outside of their own boxes.