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Guiding Parents of Neurodivergent Teens
Musings On Retirement
Courtney Glickman on Nature-Informed Therapy
Reconnecting Couples through Emotion Focused Therapy
Departing from Stigma and Secrecy and Elevating Stories of Agency: Narrative Practice in the Voices of Sex Workers
Kay Ingamells on the Wonderfulness Interview in Narrative Practice
When the Therapist Shares Too Much
Rewriting the Drinking Story: Four Pillars for Empowered Sobriety
For the Love of the Game
Jennifer Baggerly on Disaster Response Play Therapy: Shelter from the Storm
Encounter with Resistance
Ben Yalom on Narrative Therapy, Theater, and Writing with my Father
The Anxiety Disorder Game
A Neurodivergent Clinicians’ Personal and Professional Journey of Self-Discovery
Therapy as a Rehearsal Ground of Courage
Christoffer Haugaard on Collaborating with Clients Who Hear Voices
On the Therapeutic Power of Presence
Why Trauma Recovery Isn’t a Straight Line
Nancy Haug on Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
Redefining Strength: A Black Woman’s Journey to Healing
Therapeutic Reimagining
Hide & Seek: Evoking Desires to be Seen, Heard, and Found
A Supervisor’s Guide on How to Create a Culture of Support
Getting Started as a Therapist: 50+ Tips for Clinical Effectiveness
Josh Coleman on the Roadmap to Healing Family Estrangement
Repairing Self-Neglect in Clients with Complex PTSD
The Challenge of Therapy During War: Psychotherapy in Ukraine
The Art of Effective Couples Therapy: Negotiation, Compromise, and Sacrifice
Jessica Kitchens on the Clinical Needs of Autistic Adults
Becoming an Accidental DBT Therapist
Through the Eyes of the Childlike Empress: Play Therapy with Refugee Children
Navigating the Landscape of Spiritual Experience in Therapy
Bethany Brand on the Identification and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Finding Healing Through Art: A Case Study in Art Therapy
Spilling Over Modernity’s Borders and Boundaries: A Decolonial Story About Alzheimer’s, Family, and Migration
Analyzing the Intersection of Play and Existential Therapies
How to Create Positive Outcomes in Play Therapy: Following the Child’s Lead
Addressing Bullying in the Classroom: Undercover Anti-Bullying Teams
Successful Use of Haleys Strategic Model of Family Therapy
Julie Bindeman on Reproductive Mental Health Care, Dobbs, and Beyond
Bringing Art (Therapy) to Life: An Interview with Judith Rubin
Integrating Generative AI and Digital Play Therapy into Clinical Practice
The Secret to Forming Powerful Relationships that Spark Change
The Bad and Good Ghosts: A Story of Reauthoring in Narrative Therapy with Children
Breaking Down Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Heart of the OCD
Effects of Social Media on Child Development: Healthy Strategies
How to Be Successful in Child Therapy: Lessons From 5 Decades of Practice
Sasha McAllum Pilkington on Grace and Storytelling at the End of Life
Facing the Fear of Flying Together: Reconsidering Exposure Therapy
Gardening Narratives and Storyliving Ones Life
Existential-Spiritual Techniques for Fostering a Healthy Perspective on Aging
Postmodern Play Therapy: Helping a Child Overcome their “Trouble Energy”
Psychodynamic Therapies: How Did We Get Here & Where Are We Going?
Teaching Prisoners to Lead Grief Support Groups
Using Play Therapy (and Movies) to Heal Attachment Wounds in a Young Child
How to Use Narrative Therapy to Help Clients Locate Alternate Stories
Sidestepping the Dependency Dance in Psychotherapy
Our Time is Up
The Pros and Cons of Remote Therapy: A Clinician’s Dilemma
Working with In-Law Problems in Couples Therapy
How to Use Structured Writing to Help Clients Unclutter
Donald Meichenbaum on Coping with Loss and Traumatic Bereavement
Mapping the Heart Of OCD: Going Beyond the Conditions We Know
A Foster Child’s Painful Visit with his Mother
Virtual Treatment of Eating Disorders and the Importance of Human Connection
Rick Miller on the Clinical Challenges of Working with Gay Sons, Mothers, and Families
Dialogue 1: How Do We Define Collaborative Writing?
My Romance with Narrative Letters: Counter-Storying Through Letter Writing
Beyond Neurosis: The Case for A Humanistic Approach to Illness Anxiety
A Small Hope: Co-creating a Narrative of Grief – Part II
A Week with Virginia Satir: The Gift
A Small Hope: Co-creating a Narrative of Grief – Part I *
Awareness: Attunement, Access, and Affirmation
Effective Family Therapy Using Football Metaphors
When the Therapist Turns Out to be Human
Using A Holistic Approach to Therapy with Clients Experiencing Chronic Illness, Disability, and Mental Health Challenges
Deciding How to Die: Narrative Therapy in Palliative Care with Someone Considering Stopping Dialysis
Mary Jo Barrett on the Collaborative Treatment of Incest and Complex Developmental Trauma
Containing The Adult ADHD Fad — With a Rejoinder from ChatGPT
How to Use Inference and Speculation for Psychological Assessment
Narrative Therapy in a Cross-Cultural Conversation with Someone Approaching Death
Brief Therapy with Single Mothers: The Transformational Alchemy of Metaphor
Providing Culturally Sensitive Narrative Therapy and EMDR to Original Peoples
Using the Filipino Practice of Shared Inner Perception in Psychotherapy
Makungu Akinyela on Testimony and the Mattering of Black Therapy
Cognitive Reframing is the Key to Counselling High-Conflict Couples
Using Common Sense Problem-Solving and Worry Containment to Subdue Ruminations
The Realm of Our Industry
Seven Lessons for Making a Meaningful Life: A Therapist’s Guide
Dead Basement: Opening a Family Therapy Time Capsule
Love is Not All You Need: A Revolutionary Approach to Parental Abuse
Breaking the Rules: When Parroting is the Best Approach in Therapy
Satya Byock on the Search for Meaning and Stability in Quarterlife
How to Use Inner Processes in Play Therapy to Help Traumatized Children
Do Clients Really Read Session Notes? The Truth Might Surprise You
How To Map the Toxic Impact of Social Media on Families in Therapy
Imagined into Agency: Goth Lolita Comes to Life
Krista Tippett on the Immensity of Our Lives
Addressing Countertransference in Grief Counseling
Current Developments in Clinical Suicidology and Mental Health Crisis Management
How to Use Play Therapy in Prisons to Create Hope
Building on Family Strengths to Solve the Puzzle of Child Protection Work
Is Private Equity Coming for Your Therapy Practice? An Interview with Joe Bavonese
A Powerful Therapeutic Tool for Defeating Negative Self-Talk
In the Shadow of COVID, It’s Play Therapy to the Rescue
Spitting Truth from My Soul: A Case Story of Rapping, Probation, and the Narrative Practices- Part II
Should Transgender Youth Care be Guided by Beliefs or Science?
Powerful Therapy Strategies for Healing Wounded Couples
Spitting Truth from My Soul: A Case Story of Rapping, Probation, and the Narrative Practices- Part I
Travis Heath on Psychotherapy as an Act of Rebellion
How to Resurrect a Dying Relationship One Emotion at a Time
McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
Using the Power of Play Therapy to Free a Frightened Child
The Existential Importance of the Penis: A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality – Daniel N. Watter, EdD
How to Successfully Navigate Cultural Challenges with Filipino Clients
Victor Yalom on Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mastery
How to Focus on Emotions to Help Volatile Couples Reconnect
Stephen Schueller on the Power and Promise of Mental Health Apps
Re-Directing Clinical Passion: Benefits and Pitfalls
Keeping or Ending Commitments, Excerpted from The Ethical Lives of Clients: Transcending Self-Interest in Psychotherapy
Will Your Treatment Plans Actually Survive a Doomsday Scenario?
Need Management Therapy: A Clinical GPS for Couples Work
The Secret to Successful Couples Therapy: Empathy Over Doubt
Full Container
The Rest of the Story: Digging Beneath the Diagnosis
Brooke Sheehan on Psychotherapy Behind Bars
What Root Canal Surgery Taught Me About Being a Therapist
Dr. Shelley F. Diamond: A Psychotherapist Facing Death
Whose Exposure Is It, Anyway?
Existentialism and the Environmental Crisis: The Urgency of Meaning
On the Continuum of Real to Imagined Abandonment
Thomas Insel on Science, Zip Code, and Future-Proofing Psychotherapy
Do Psychotherapists Need to Buy DSM-5-TR?
Feedback-Focused Couples Counseling
The Challenge of Retirement: Finding Meaning and Self-Esteem in New Ways
An Existential-Spiritual Journey During COVID-19
Addressing the Relational Impact of Mental Illness
A Behavior Treatment Plan as a Psychological MRI
A Path Towards Healing Generational Trauma
Setbacks in Psychotherapy
Confessions of a Student Counsellor
Successful Intervention with a Family Impacted by Treatment-Resistant BPD
That Tipsy Session: The Power of Self-Disclosure
A Path Towards Self-Compassion and Healing
Unlocked: Online Therapy Stories
Costumed Authenticity: Building Trust in LGBTQ+ Telehealth
Laurie Helgoe on the Power and Challenges of Introversion
Long-Term Psychotherapy and BPD, Part 2: A Dialogue on Trust
Finding the Goldilocks Zone: An Antidote to Black-and-White Thinking
Long Term Psychotherapy and BPD, Part 1: A Dialogue on Hope
Jessica Stone on Play Therapy in the Digital Age
Holding Two Worlds Together—Apart: On the Duality of Being a Therapist
Interpersonal Connection: Noticing the Needs of Others
Strengthening the Online Counseling Relationship: Helpful Tele-Tips
Russell Siler Jones on Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy
Existential-Humanistic Therapy in the Age of COVID-19 in Vulnerable Populations
Caring for those Who Care for Our Pets
A Therapist’s Best Friend
Treating the Compulsive Personality: Transforming Poison into Medicine
Accurate Empathy is the Heartbeat of Rogerian Psychotherapy
How an Anti-Tech Group Therapist Became a True Believer
The Story is Everything
Working Towards Therapeutic Solutions with Men
Some Thoughts on What Makes A Relationship Successful
The Therapist and the Marriage
Anastasia Piatakhina Giré on Teletherapy, Borders and Building Bridges
Has Psychotherapy Lost Its Mind?
Us Versus It: Racism, Family Treatment, and Eco-Systemic Considerations
Consigned to Virtual Therapy
The I-Thou Relationship in the Age of Telehealth
Family Therapy in the Age of Zoom: What a Long Strange Trip It Has Been
Barriers and the Black Experience in Mental Health Care
Countertransference: How Are We Doing?
Bret Moore on Military Psychology and Getting the Mission Done*
Integrating Technology into Mental Healthcare: Theory and Practice
Usha Tummala-Narra on Living Multicultural Competence
David Nylund on Narrative Therapy, Curiosity and Queertopia
What’s the Limit? Maintaining and Understanding Boundaries in Psychotherapy
Daryl Chow on Reigniting Clinical Supervision
Internal Emigration & Online Therapy
Dual Aspect Monism: Centering Psychotherapy on Mind
It’s Time for Supervisors to Help Clinicians Marry Data with Intuition
The Performing Art of Therapy: Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians
Think Act Be: A Whole Person Approach to Healing
How to Master the Art of Developing Your Therapeutic Voice
Unlearning to Learn
Circle of Development: How Clinical Supervisors Can Help You Get to Your Growth Edge
Jay Lappin on Family Therapy—The Long View
A Tale of Two Cars: Interpreting Therapeutic Play
How Self-Disclosure of Learning Differences Guides My Clinical Relationships
Three Types of Knowledge Clinical Supervisors Need to Know
Chocolate, Jalape
Coping with Infidelity in Professional Couples
Judith Grisel on Addiction, Neuroscience and Choice
Seven Mistakes in Clinical Supervision and How to Avoid Them
Talkspace: The New Therapy Room
Therapeutic Fanfiction: Rewriting Society
What Do I Say Now? Coping with Uncertainty in Unstructured Psychotherapy
Responding to an Immediate Negative Transference
Online Therapy: An Unexpected Space of Freedom
Therapy with a Condom On
Joseph Burgo on Shame, Narcissism and the Art of Empathy
Changing Places
Introducing Multi-Lens Therapy
From Cultural Competence to Cultural Humility & Equity
Let’s Meet in the Middle
Bilingualism as a Necessary Clinical Competence
Erica Anderson on Working Therapeutically Across the Gender Spectrum
Having the Hard Conversations in Sport
Language as Boundary
The Value of Evidence-Based Treatment That Fails
Hotel Room Therapy
Therapy with Latinx DACA Clients and Their Families: A Therapist’s Primer
Teaching Adolescents Mindfulness Using the Morita Therapy Concept
Janelle Johnson on College Counseling
Deliberate Practice in Psychotherapy
David Jobes on Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality
Working with Teens: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Family Therapy and Yoga: A Connection?
David Barlow on Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders
Give Me that Feedback
Do We Really Know What We Look Like?
Supply and Demand Psychotherapy
The Modular View of the Mind
A Barbie in Paris
What Do a Mango Tree and Child Therapy Have in Common?
Allen Frances on the DSM-5, Mental Illness and Humane Treatment
Burning Out After Jumping In: Reflections From the F
When Your Client Dreams about You
Why Therapists Choose Online Therapy for Themselves
Eliana Gil on Play Therapy and Working with Traumatized Children
Teaching Clients to Meditate
Janina Fisher on Innovations in Treating Trauma
PhDs in Therapy
Are High-Risk Clients Suitable for Online Psychotherapy?
Bruce Wampold on What Actually Makes Us Good Therapists
Tony Rousmaniere on Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists
Why Clients Choose Online Therapy
If You Kill Yourself, Don’t Make a Mess: Paradoxical Intention with a Suicidal Client
William Richards on Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy and Mystical Experiences
Tea with Freud: An Imaginary Conversation About How Psychotherapy Really Works
Margo Maine on the Eating Disorder Epidemic Among Middle-Aged Women
Dreamwork in Stereo
The Gloria Films: Candid answers to questions therapists ask most
Louis Cozolino on the Integration of Neuroscience into Psychotherapy—and its Limitations
The Multiple Languages of Therapy
House Call Revival
Spencer Niles on the Latest Developments in Career Counseling
Whiteness Matters: Exploring White Privilege, Color Blindness and Racism in Psychotherapy
Jill Scharff on Object Relations Therapy with Couples
Hide-and-Seek in Online Therapy
Losing Faith: Arguing for a New Way to Think About Therapy
Brian McNeill on the Art of Supervision
In Bed With Your Therapist: The Paradoxical Intimacy of Online Psychotherapy
Birthplace
Allan Schore on the Science of the Art of Psychotherapy
What Remains: The Aftermath of Patient Suicide
Je Taime…Me Neither
Losing the Couch: Finding the “Sacred Place” in Online Therapy
Ronald Siegel on Integrating Mindfulness into Psychotherapy
Thupten Jinpa on Fearless Compassion
Heather Clague on Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Working with Society’s Most Marginalized Populations
Creative Writing as Psychotherapy
Creatures of a Day
Gary Greenberg on the DSM and Its Woes
Psychotherapy and the Care of Souls
Lynn Ponton on the Challenges and Joys of Working with Teens
Francine Shapiro on the Evolution of EMDR Therapy
When the Therapist Loves and Hates
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk on Trauma, Development and Healing
Brad Strawn on Integrating Religion and Psychotherapy
Counseling Kids: When a Cigar Is Just a Cigar
Psychotherapy with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients
Thomas Moore on the Soul of Psychotherapy
After the Diagnosis: Helping Patients Cope With their Emotions
Howard Kassinove on Anger Management
Psychotherapy with Alien Beings: Cultural Competence (and Incompetence) in Psychotherapy Practice
Eduardo Duran on Psychotherapy with Native Americans
Listening as Meditation
Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
Anita Barrows on Love, Poetry and Autism
John Sommers-Flanagan on Clinical Interviewing and the Highly Unmotivated Client
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Scott Miller on Why Most Therapists Are Just Average (and How We Can Improve)
Dial-Up Connection
Infertility on Both Sides of the Couch
George Silberschatz on Psychotherapy Research and Its Discontents
Technology and Psychotherapy
Charles Mansueto on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Our Hungry Selves: Women, Eating and Identity
Steven Hayes on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Embracing Your Demons: An Overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Verbal Ventilation: The highway to intimacy and the key process of therapy
Diana Fosha on Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
Michael Lambert on Preventing Treatment Failures (and Why You’re Not as Good as You Think)
The God of Psychoanalysis
The Tao of Anger Management: A Yield Theory Approach
Treating a Couple After an Affair
Why Its Time to Take Mobile Seriously
True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
Tara Brach on Mindfulness, Psychotherapy and Awakening
The Healing Power of Writing
Philip Guerin on Bowenian Family Therapy
Who Cares About Creativity?
Reid Wilson on Strategic Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Emotional Healing Through Creativity (Or: How Creativity Got a Bad Name and What We Can Do About It)
Philip Kendall on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Grief and Gratitude: Working with Stroke Survivors
Paul Wachtel on Therapeutic Communication
The Miraculous (or not) Efficacy of Solution-Focused Therapy
Cathy Cole on Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing in End-of-Life Care
Maria Gonzalez-Blue on Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy
First Impressions in Psychotherapy
The Spinoza Problem: An Excerpt
Psychotherapy with Older Adults: Unjustified Fears, Unrecognized Rewards
Esther Perel on Mating in Captivity
Videotaping Therapy
Assessing Partner Abuse in Couples Therapy
Is Self-Regulation or Co-Regulation Better for Couples?
John Arden on Brain-Based Therapy
Techniques, Therapeutic Relationship and the Importance of the Body
The Whole Truth: Coping Creatively with the Dark Side of Therapeutic Practice
Eda Gorbis on Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Interrupting the Conversation: Gestalt Therapy Here and Now
Violet Oaklander on Gestalt Therapy with Children
The God of Hellfire Will See You Now
Supervision of Executive Coaching
Sue Johnson on Emotionally Focused Therapy
Awakening to Awe: A Book Review
Turning Blaming into Confiding in Couples Therapy
Training in Couples Therapy
Lonnie Barbach on Sex Therapy
Training in Microexpressions
The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist
Collaborative Couple Therapy With High Conflict Couples
Working in the Here-and-Now of the Therapeutic Relationship
Molyn Leszcz on Group Psychotherapy
Interacting Sensitivities in Couples Therapy
The Lake Wobegon Effect
Preventing Psychotherapy Dropouts with Client Feedback
Stan Tatkin on a Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy
Psychotherapy Training on Steroids: Remote Live Supervision
Trusting the Client as the Agent of Change
Nancy McWilliams on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Bids for Emotional Connection in Couples Therapy
Mark Epstein on Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
Working with the Unemotional in Emotionally Focused Therapy
Memories of Stonehenge, 1984: Conference of Women Family Therapists
Empowering Clients in Couples Therapy
Harry Aponte on Structural Family Therapy
Walking A Tightrope: Family Therapy with Adolescents and Their Families
Ethical and Legal Issues in Telephone Therapy
Gottman and Gray: The Two Johns
Kenneth Doka on Grief Counseling and Psychotherapy
David Wallin on Attachment and Psychotherapy
Erving Polster on Gestalt Therapy
Monica McGoldrick on Family Therapy
Peter Levine on Somatic Experiencing
Hanna Levenson on Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy
Jeffrey Kottler on Being a Therapist
Mardi Horowitz on Psychotherapy Research and Happiness
Psychotherapy with Medically Ill Patients: Hope in the Trenches
Michael Yapko on Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Depression
Irvin Yalom on Existential Psychotherapy and Death Anxiety
Dan Wile on Collaborative Couples Therapy
Ernest Rossi on Mind-Body Therapy
Frank Pittman on Growing Up and Taking Responsibility
Augustus Napier on Experiential Family Therapy
Zerka Moreno on Psychodrama
Donald Meichenbaum on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Madeline Levine on Psychotherapy with Adolescents
Ron Kurtz on the Hakomi Method
Otto Kernberg on Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Michael Hoyt on Brief and Narrative Therapy
Susan Heitler on Couples Therapy
Kenneth V. Hardy on Multiculturalism and Psychotherapy
John Gottman on Couples Therapy
James Bugental on Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy
Larry Beutler on Science and Psychotherapy
Insoo Kim Berg on Brief Solution-Focused Therapy
Looking Out the Patient’s Window Redux: Self-disclosure and Genuineness
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
The Gift of Therapy
The Schopenhauer Cure
A Few Simple Questions
Family Therapy and Resistant Parents: The Child Cannot Wait
The Path to Wholeness: Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy
Psychotherapy for Oppositional-Defiant Kids with Low Frustration Tolerance – and How to Help Their Parents, Too
Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients
The Tao of Direction: Structure and Process in Clinical Supervision
Clinical Wisdom: A Psychoanalyst Learns from his Mistakes
Psychotherapy in China: Western and Eastern Perspectives
Supershrinks: What is the secret of their success?
Black and White Witchcraft: A Cultural Crossroads in Paris Inspires Therapeutic Innovation
My, How Couples Therapy has Changed! Attachment, Love and Science
Letting the Patient Matter: Some Thoughts on Irvin Yalom’s View of the Therapeutic Relationship
Food for the Soul
In Search of Self: My Therapy with Rogers, Satir, Bugental, Polster, Yalom, & Maslow
Words Against the Void: Poems by an Existential Psychologist
Existential Poems
Healing Trauma Through the Body: The Way In is the Way Out
Family Therapy with Families Facing Catastrophic Illness: Building Internal and External Resources
Psychotherapy Isn’t What You Think: Bringing the Psychotherapeutic Engagement into the Living Moment
The Family Research Project: A Summary
Edna Foa on Prolonged Exposure Therapy
Transforming the Wounds of Racism: An Autoethnographic Exploration and Implications for Psychotherapy
Getting Off to a Powerful Start in Couples Therapy