Looking beyond day-to-day rigors and challenges from behind the couch, seasoned clinician Catherine Ambrose reflects on the gratitude and growth she continues to experience helping others.
Finding Playfulness in the Seriousness
Play therapist Rachel Altvater shares her observations about the importance of play in the life of the psychotherapist, whether or not they work with children.
Why the Therapist
Our editor Lawrence Rubin wonders aloud why it is that the therapist’s children don’t simply heed his sagacious advice.
On Holding Your Tongue
How often are we tempted to insert brilliant interpretations of our client’s dream into therapy? Dream researcher and psychotherapist Leslie Ellis suggests that for our clients’ sake, it may be more clinically prudent to “hold our tongue.”
Shame Part 2: Shame Proneness
Shame-proneness sets us up to feel bad about ourselves in most, if not all, situations and relationships. In this, the second in a series of blogs about shame, psychotherapist and author Jacqueline Simon-Gunn explores this dark and destructive – yet resolvable – inner tendency.
Shame Part 1: Walls are Fears Disguised as Safety
We feel guilt for faulty behavior and thoughts, but shame for faults in ourselves. In the first in a series of powerful blogs, psychotherapist and author Jacqueline Simon Gunn explores the clinical manifestations of this often secret and destructive inner experience.
Teen Heroes with Feet of Clay: The Dilemma of a Pop-Culture Psychotherapist
On the heels of a recent celebrity overdose, a teen psychotherapist reflects on the place of fallen role models in treatment.
Bare: Psychotherapy Stripped
A psychotherapist bares all as she reluctantly accepts the referral of a troubled and troubling client who has had a long, hard fall from glory.
The Healer that is Hurting
Reflecting on her own and her clients’ losses, a psychotherapist stands on the beach as waves of grief approach.
A Barbie in Paris
A Russian-become-French psychotherapist tries to connect with a “Barbie in Paris” struggling to bring together pieces of her fractured cultural identity.