Visualizing the “ideal parent” one never had can finally begin clients on the road to self-compassion and healing.
Holding Two Worlds Together—Apart: On the Duality of Being a Therapist
Safeguarding our clients’ stories is a rare privilege that enhances our therapeutic bond and deepens our humanity. We take them with us and carry them outside of the therapy room. The resonances that work to create neural circuitry and bond the hearts and minds of our clients do the same for us—if we allow them to.
Interpersonal Connection: Noticing the Needs of Others
Noticing others’ needs goes beyond improving their wellbeing; our own connection benefits as well when we develop finely-tuned empathy for other people.
Help-Seeking-Rejecting Clients and The Therapist
Help-seeking-rejecting patients can be exasperating, requiring therapists to suspend their own egos in order to help.
Countertransference to Sexual and Developmental Trauma in the Psychoanalysis of a Disabled Patient
At the fascinating and complex intersection of polio, psychoanalysis and sexuality, healing begins.
Strengthening the Online Counseling Relationship: Helpful Tele-Tips
Therapists can help each other adapt to the new normal of telehealth by sharing their valuable learned experience.
Emergent Anxiety: Facing a Post-COVID Life
As COVID recedes, new anxieties emerge and therapists will be on the front line to help.
The Upward Arrow and the Golden Rule
The “Golden Rule” may well be the key to helping clients find their way to intimacy.
Russell Siler Jones on Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy
If you have wondered how to integrate spirituality into psychotherapy, our interview with Russell Siler Jones will be enlightening.
Existential-Humanistic Therapy in the Age of COVID-19 in Vulnerable Populations
Discover how Existential-Humanistic therapy techniques can be used as a catalyst for hope when working with clients who are struggling with the anxiety and fear left in COVID’s wake.