Deepen the therapeutic process by not only paying attention to the clients’ metaphors but your own as well.
In the Same Leaky Boat: Being a Parent and Therapist
Being both a therapist and a parent provide unique insights that can be harnessed in treatment of beleaguered and overwhelmed clients.
Costumed Authenticity: Building Trust in LGBTQ+ Telehealth
Therapists working virtually can learn much about their clients, once they are truly invited “in.”
A Walk in the Park
A chance walk in the woods reminds an aging child therapist of the importance of play, both in and outside of treatment.
Psychodermatology: Understanding the Mental Health Component of Skin Conditions
Learn how Psychodermatology—the mind/skin connection—can help clients better regulate stress and anxiety to reduce pain and discomfort.
Jude Austin on Wisdom for Counseling Students and Educators
Counselor educator/clinician Jude Austin offers wisdom and survival tips for both student and teacher from the trenches of graduate school.
Overcoming the Pernicious Chronicle
Why you should stop your patients from turning into psychiatric annuities by doing, rather than avoiding, the hard work of change.
A Matter of Death and Life
In this excerpt from A Matter of Death and Life, Irvin Yalom speaks from the depths of pain over losing his beloved wife and co-author, Marilyn; not only to fellow therapists but to all of us who have lost loved ones.
The Pygmalion Effect and Treating Incarcerated Individuals with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
Therapists can transform inmates into emissaries of hope by learning about The Pygmalion Effect.
Relief or Change? Which is the Most Meaningful?
Therapists will benefit from remembering that sometimes and for some people, relief is change, and not necessarily something less.