Exploring counseling through basketball metaphors, this story shows how creative strategies can build trust and connection with reluctant clients.
Jennifer Baggerly on Disaster Response Play Therapy: Shelter from the Storm
Discover Jennifer Baggerly’s insights on Disaster Response Play Therapy in Shelter from the Storm, as explored by Lawrence Rubin in this compelling feature.
Reflections on How to Live with Hardships in Life
How do we go on when life refuses to grant us peace? Some pain lingers like an old debt; some wounds never fully heal. Perhaps wisdom lies not in overcoming, but in learning to carry what cannot be undone.
Encounter with Resistance
Explore how existential-humanistic therapy views resistance as protection, revealing deep emotional patterns and supporting clients in facing vulnerability.
Ben Yalom on Narrative Therapy, Theater, and Writing with my Father
Ben Yalom, son of famed clinician and author, Irvin Yalom, shares the journey of co-authorship with his father, and how to integrate his theater training into his own Narrative therapy work.
The Anxiety Disorder Game
Anxiety Disorder expert Reid Wilson, PhD, offers a unique twist on traditional cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders.
Practicing Philosophy on the Frontlines of Suicide Prevention
Long before I read Socrates, I was unknowingly walking his path: questioning what others accepted, resisting the comfort of simple answers, and learning to live in the company of uncertainty. Philosophy didn’t save me. It found me.
A Neurodivergent Clinicians’ Personal and Professional Journey of Self-Discovery
My journey of self-discovery is probably similar to those of many others, with the exception that becoming a therapist, at least to me, is unlike any other career.
Therapy as a Rehearsal Ground of Courage
In a society saturated with political conflict, social media outrage, and a nonstop news cycle, clients struggle to trust that therapy is a truly nonjudgmental space. This is the world many of my clients now inhabit—a world shaped by social media outrage, relentless news cycles, and political extremism.
Shaped by Experience: What a Brain Bleed Taught Me About Therapy, Grief, and Presence
I never imagined that a single medical crisis could teach me more about therapy than years of clinical training––surviving a brain bleed during my final semester of internship turned the ICU into the most intense classroom of my life.