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.
Stephen Schueller on the Power and Promise of Mental Health Apps
Mental health apps offer many promises, but there are warning signs to be heeded.
Re-Directing Clinical Passion: Benefits and Pitfalls
Following your values into high-risk ventures promises great rewards, but equally daunting challenges, as veteran psychotherapist and researcher Robin Rosenberg reveals.
Keeping or Ending Commitments, Excerpted from The Ethical Lives of Clients: Transcending Self-Interest in Psychotherapy
In this excerpt from The Ethical Lives of Clients: Transcending Self-Interest in Psychotherapy, William Doherty helps therapists address their client’s relational ethical dilemmas.
Will Your Treatment Plans Actually Survive a Doomsday Scenario?
Therapists, counselors and other mental health providers must be able to justify their treatment plans with evidence, but who decides what that evidence should be?
Perfectionism in Highly Intelligent Clients: Therapeutic Strategies
Working with highly intelligent clients requires therapists to pay attention to perfectionism, both healthy and non.