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Reconnecting Couples through Emotion Focused Therapy
What Autistic Kids Have Taught Me About Therapy
Jennifer Baggerly on Disaster Response Play Therapy: Shelter from the Storm
Insight into the Clinical Challenges of Adoption
Hide & Seek: Evoking Desires to be Seen, Heard, and Found
Josh Coleman on the Roadmap to Healing Family Estrangement
The Challenge of Therapy During War: Psychotherapy in Ukraine
The Art of Effective Couples Therapy: Negotiation, Compromise, and Sacrifice
Teaching Clients Active Listening Skills to Improve their Relationships
Through the Eyes of the Childlike Empress: Play Therapy with Refugee Children
Bethany Brand on the Identification and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder
When to Use Unexpected Techniques with Emotionally Overwhelmed Adults
The Silent Therapist: Teddy Bear Therapy with Adults
Spilling Over Modernity’s Borders and Boundaries: A Decolonial Story About Alzheimer’s, Family, and Migration
Impactful Encounters: The Truth About Therapy in Nursing Homes
What Happens Now? Reporting Childhood Sexual Abuse
How to Create Positive Outcomes in Play Therapy: Following the Child’s Lead
Michelle Jurkiewicz on Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy with Children, Teens and Families
Addressing Bullying in the Classroom: Undercover Anti-Bullying Teams
Successful Use of Haleys Strategic Model of Family Therapy
Reflecting on Domestic Violence: How One Therapist Made a Difference
Using Four-Legged Friends as Metaphors in Therapy
Bringing Art (Therapy) to Life: An Interview with Judith Rubin
Integrating Generative AI and Digital Play Therapy into Clinical Practice
Can You See Me? Arab Immigrants’ Quests for Identity and Belonging
Standing With Clients in the Twilight of Life
The Bad and Good Ghosts: A Story of Reauthoring in Narrative Therapy with Children
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
Postmodern Play Therapy: Helping a Child Overcome their “Trouble Energy”
The Elder in Exile: Psychotherapy with Older Adults
Finding Ways to Communicate with Clients About Their Symptoms
Terminally Ill Pediatric Patients and the Grieving Therapist
Coming Full Circle: Helping a Young Couple Through Their Grief
Using Play Therapy (and Movies) to Heal Attachment Wounds in a Young Child
How to Use Narrative Therapy to Help Clients Locate Alternate Stories
Ethics or Protocol: Children Must Take Priority
A Foster Child’s Painful Visit with his Mother
Psychotherapy with Dissociative Identity Disorder
What Can Therapists Offer the Larger World?
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
A Small Hope: Co-creating a Narrative of Grief – Part II
A Small Hope: Co-creating a Narrative of Grief – Part I *
Working Effectively and Developmentally with Traumatized Adolescents in the Juvenile Justice System
Effective Family Therapy Using Football Metaphors
When the Therapist Turns Out to be Human
The Challenges and Rewards of Therapeutic Work with Brain-Injured Clients
Mary Jo Barrett on the Collaborative Treatment of Incest and Complex Developmental Trauma
Brief Therapy with Single Mothers: The Transformational Alchemy of Metaphor
The Costs and Benefits of Virtual Reality in Psychotherapy
Using the Filipino Practice of Shared Inner Perception in Psychotherapy
Makungu Akinyela on Testimony and the Mattering of Black Therapy
Therapy as a Means of Balancing Loss with Acceptance
Cognitive Reframing is the Key to Counselling High-Conflict Couples
Psychotherapy With Non-Verbal Clients: Blending Empathy and Flexibility
Reducing the Negative Impact of Reasonable Expectations on Healthy Relationships
Mommy Liked Me Best (And Why It Matters as a Gay Son)
How to Use Inner Processes in Play Therapy to Help Traumatized Children
Using Psychotherapy to Heal a Lifetime of Pain and Shame
How To Map the Toxic Impact of Social Media on Families in Therapy
How to Help Clients Change the Narrative of Aging
Psychotherapy with a WW II Survivor: Bearing Grief with Grace
How to Use Play Therapy in Prisons to Create Hope
Building on Family Strengths to Solve the Puzzle of Child Protection Work
Social Media Monitoring Tips for Successful Psychotherapy with Teens
Effective Nursing Home Psychotherapy: Blending Skill And Heart
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
Therapy in the Shadow of Death and Its Remarkable Privileges
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
How to Help Veterans Haunted by War Reclaim Their Humanity
Using the Power of Play Therapy to Free a Frightened Child
Healing Conversations: Giving Life to the Life of a Person Who Died by Suicide*
The Existential Importance of the Penis: A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality – Daniel N. Watter, EdD
5 Simple Questions to Improve Your Work with Elderly Clients
How to Successfully Navigate Cultural Challenges with Filipino Clients
How to Focus on Emotions to Help Volatile Couples Reconnect
Psychotherapy Behind Prison Walls. Does it Really Help?
Stephen Schueller on the Power and Promise of Mental Health Apps
Keeping or Ending Commitments, Excerpted from The Ethical Lives of Clients: Transcending Self-Interest in Psychotherapy
Need Management Therapy: A Clinical GPS for Couples Work
The Secret to Successful Couples Therapy: Empathy Over Doubt
The Encounter at the Doorway
Working Therapeutically with Generational Conflict
Brooke Sheehan on Psychotherapy Behind Bars
How to Survive Pandemic Pandemonium in Nursing Facilities
Through the Looking Glass: Helping Clients with Retirement
Feedback-Focused Couples Counseling
Attending to Attachment in the Treatment of Incarcerated Women
Healing Wounded Images of Self and God
The Challenge of Retirement: Finding Meaning and Self-Esteem in New Ways
Ninety-Five Percent: Preparing to Work with Previously-Incarcerated Clients
Addressing the Relational Impact of Mental Illness
Harvesting the Fruits of Popular Culture in Psychotherapy
Listening for Meaning in the Voices Nursing Home Clients Hear
Battling Stigma: Serving Previously-Incarcerated Clients in the Community
Stefani Goerlich on Becoming a Kink-Affirming Therapist
Melting Fear with Love
Confessions of a Student Counsellor
Successful Intervention with a Family Impacted by Treatment-Resistant BPD
Ancestral Narrative Building: A Path to Healing Generational Trauma
Russell Ramsay on Attending to ADHD in Adulthood
Unlocked: Online Therapy Stories
Therapeutic Reflections of a Former Gang Member
The Pregnant Correctional Practitioner: Challenges and Benefits
Fellow Therapists: Do You Work With Sex Offenders?
In the Same Leaky Boat: Being a Parent and Therapist
The Pygmalion Effect and Treating Incarcerated Individuals with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
Counseling Gifted Clients: Journeys through the Rainforest Mind
Reframing the Legacy of Ancestral Trauma as Resilience
Jessica Stone on Play Therapy in the Digital Age
Interpersonal Connection: Noticing the Needs of Others
Being Black and a Clinician During 2020: A Trainee
What the APA Apology Means for Black Psychiatry
Tokophobia: Recognizing the Multifaceted Fear of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Standing Up to Microaggression: A Clinician’s Experience
Some Thoughts on What Makes A Relationship Successful
The Therapist and the Marriage
20 Seconds: Coming Out to a Client
Us Versus It: Racism, Family Treatment, and Eco-Systemic Considerations
Dangerous Intimacies: Racism, Risk, and Recovery
A Silent Dialogue: Coming Together During Troubling Times
Family Therapy in the Age of Zoom: What a Long Strange Trip It Has Been
Barriers and the Black Experience in Mental Health Care
Beverly Greene on Race, Racism and Psychotherapy
Beyond Resilience: Addressing Moral Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bret Moore on Military Psychology and Getting the Mission Done*
David Nylund on Narrative Therapy, Curiosity and Queertopia
Psychotherapy and Autism
The Murder of Hope
The Instant Replay: Reliving a Critical Moment
Addressing Common (and Reasonable) Myths About Exposure-Based Therapy for Child Anxiety
Why I Hate Alzheimer’s
Coping with Infidelity in Professional Couples
Judith Grisel on Addiction, Neuroscience and Choice
Michael Gurian on Masculinity, Neuroscience and Psychotherapy
Therapeutic Fanfiction: Rewriting Society
Advocating for the LGBTQIAA in Psychotherapy
Therapy with a Condom On
From Cultural Competence to Cultural Humility & Equity
Digital Technology and Parenting:
Erica Anderson on Working Therapeutically Across the Gender Spectrum
Doctors Are People, Too
Having the Hard Conversations in Sport
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
In Support of Supportive Therapy
Helping Caregivers Find the Kid Inside
Joyce Mills on StoryPlay®, Metaphor and the Enduring Legacy of Milton Erickson
Working with Teens: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I Dont Know How To Be Sorry
A Counselor Visits the US/Mexico Border
Why the Therapist
Teen Heroes with Feet of Clay: The Dilemma of a Pop-Culture Psychotherapist
Burning Out After Jumping In: Reflections From the F
Straight Life Cycle/Queer Life
Queer Couch for the Straight Girl
Robert J. Lifton on Political Violence, Activism and Life as a Psycho-Historian
The Imprisoned Brain: Psychotherapy with Inmates in Jail
Whiteness Matters: Exploring White Privilege, Color Blindness and Racism in Psychotherapy
Jill Scharff on Object Relations Therapy with Couples
Brooklyn Zoo: The Education of a Psychotherapist
Heather Clague on Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Working with Society’s Most Marginalized Populations
Lynn Ponton on the Challenges and Joys of Working with Teens
Francine Shapiro on the Evolution of EMDR Therapy
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk on Trauma, Development and Healing
Counseling Kids: When a Cigar Is Just a Cigar
A Short Piece on Disrespecting Teenagers
Psychotherapy with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients
The No-Fee Session
Anita Barrows on Love, Poetry and Autism
John Sommers-Flanagan on Clinical Interviewing and the Highly Unmotivated Client
Jean McLendon on the Legacy of Virginia Satir
Infertility on Both Sides of the Couch
Transforming War Trauma: The Healing Power of Community
Christian Conte on Anger Management
The Tao of Anger Management: A Yield Theory Approach
Philip Guerin on Bowenian Family Therapy
Philip Kendall on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Grief and Gratitude: Working with Stroke Survivors
Motivational Interviewing in End-of-Life Care
Psychotherapy with Older Adults: Unjustified Fears, Unrecognized Rewards
Esther Perel on Mating in Captivity
Assessing Partner Abuse in Couples Therapy
Violet Oaklander on Gestalt Therapy with Children
James Gilligan on the Psychology and Treatment of Violent Offenders
Sue Johnson on Emotionally Focused Therapy
Turning Blaming into Confiding in Couples Therapy
Frank Ochberg on Treating PTSD
Collaborative Couple Therapy With High Conflict Couples
Interacting Sensitivities in Couples Therapy
Stan Tatkin on a Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy
Bids for Emotional Connection in Couples Therapy
Empowering Clients in Couples Therapy
Harry Aponte on Structural Family Therapy
Walking A Tightrope: Family Therapy with Adolescents and Their Families
Dan Wile on Collaborative Couples Therapy
Augustus Napier on Experiential Family Therapy
Madeline Levine on Psychotherapy with Adolescents
Susan Heitler on Couples Therapy
Kenneth V. Hardy on Multiculturalism and Psychotherapy
John Gottman on Couples Therapy
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
Angels in Crisis: How Mobile Crisis Intervention Changes Lives
My, How Couples Therapy has Changed! Attachment, Love and Science
In Search of Self: My Therapy with Rogers, Satir, Bugental, Polster, Yalom, & Maslow
Family Therapy with Families Facing Catastrophic Illness: Building Internal and External Resources
Don Clark on Psychotherapy with Gay Clients