Therapeutic Issue

Has our Metaphor of Rewiring the Brain Gone Too Far?

Musings On Retirement 

Trauma-Informed Care Without the Buzzwords 

Courtney Glickman on Nature-Informed Therapy  

A Framework for Supporting Clients in Emotionally Charged Relationships

The Polarizing Nature of Shame 

What Autistic Kids Have Taught Me About Therapy

Kay Ingamells on the Wonderfulness Interview in Narrative Practice

When the Therapist Shares Too Much 

Crossing Zero: The Art and Science of Coming Off—and Staying Off—Psychiatric Drugs

Measuring the Unmeasurable: How to Know When Therapy Is Working?

Rewriting the Drinking Story: Four Pillars for Empowered Sobriety

Jennifer Baggerly on Disaster Response Play Therapy: Shelter from the Storm

Reflections on How to Live with Hardships in Life

Ben Yalom on Narrative Therapy, Theater, and Writing with my Father

The Anxiety Disorder Game

Practicing Philosophy on the Frontlines of Suicide Prevention

A Neurodivergent Clinicians’ Personal and Professional Journey of Self-Discovery

Therapy as a Rehearsal Ground of Courage

Shaped by Experience: What a Brain Bleed Taught Me About Therapy, Grief, and Presence

Rebuilding Connection after Grieving the Loss of a Desired Relationship

Christoffer Haugaard on Collaborating with Clients Who Hear Voices

Is it Ethical to Use ChatGPT for Diagnosis and Treatment Planning?

In the Therapist’s Chair and at the Kitchen Table: Juggling Personal and Professional Struggles

Emigration: Hidden Suffering, Complex Grief, and Identity Transformation

On the Therapeutic Power of Presence

Why Trauma Recovery Isn’t a Straight Line

Nancy Haug on Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy

Insight into the Clinical Challenges of Adoption

Redefining Strength: A Black Woman’s Journey to Healing

A Therapist’s Guide to Breaking Free from Impostor Syndrome

Therapeutic Reimagining

Understanding Sexual Reenactments and How to Eliminate Them

Voices Are Nourished by Fear

From Darkness to Hope: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy

Getting Started as a Therapist: 50+ Tips for Clinical Effectiveness

Unburden What Has Been

Josh Coleman on the Roadmap to Healing Family Estrangement

Moving Beyond ‘How Do You Feel’ in Therapy to Release Client’s Pain

A More Compassionate Approach to Juvenile Evaluations

Repairing Self-Neglect in Clients with Complex PTSD

The Challenge of Therapy During War: Psychotherapy in Ukraine

Helping Clients to Understand and Overcome Traumatic Reenactment

The Art of Effective Couples Therapy: Negotiation, Compromise, and Sacrifice

Healing the Wounds of Trauma through Play

Jessica Kitchens on the Clinical Needs of Autistic Adults

Teaching Clients Active Listening Skills to Improve their Relationships

Becoming an Accidental DBT Therapist

Lessons in Tough Compassion and Male Resistance to Therapy

When Clients Don’t Want to Talk about Their Feelings

Bethany Brand on the Identification and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder

When to Use Unexpected Techniques with Emotionally Overwhelmed Adults

A Day in the Life of a Very Old Therapist

Finding Healing Through Art: A Case Study in Art Therapy

Reasons Why Safety Precedes Forgiveness for Survivors of Abuse

A Unique Mental Health Conference That Supports People With DID

Spilling Over Modernity’s Borders and Boundaries: A Decolonial Story About Alzheimer’s, Family, and Migration

Legendary Psychotherapists Share Their Secrets to Longevity

Michelle Jurkiewicz on Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy with Children, Teens and Families

Embracing Technology in Counseling: Innovative Tools for Enhanced Client Support

Managing Post-Election Despair in Therapy: A Clinician’s Conundrum

How Do You Maintain Compassion and Respect for Your Clients?

Reflecting on Domestic Violence: How One Therapist Made a Difference

Julie Bindeman on Reproductive Mental Health Care, Dobbs, and Beyond

The Importance of Being Heard: When Clients Need Us to Listen

Nothing Left to Give: A Psychologist’s Path Back from Burnout

The Transformative Power of Empathy in Therapy

Balancing Between Creative and the Clinician: Reflections on Self-Integration

Integrating Generative AI and Digital Play Therapy into Clinical Practice

Honesty, Not Empathy, is the Greatest Gift a Clinician Can Offer

Can You See Me? Arab Immigrants’ Quests for Identity and Belonging

Standing With Clients in the Twilight of Life

When Symptoms Overshadow a Diagnosis: Psychotherapy as Archeology

The Secret to Forming Powerful Relationships that Spark Change

How to Avoid Burnout and Find Joy in Corporatized Care Settings

Gift Giver: The Impact of Giving Clients Gifts

Looking Beyond Trauma: A Neurodivergent Therapist Shifts Her Clinical Focus

Breaking Down Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Heart of the OCD

The Healing Power of Therapeutic Presence

Sasha McAllum Pilkington on Grace and Storytelling at the End of Life

Navigating Client Loneliness in the Digital Age with Therapy

Facing the Fear of Flying Together: Reconsidering Exposure Therapy

Creating a Safe Therapeutic Space for All Feelings

Reflections on Clinical Techniques for Working with Loss

How In-Person Sessions Create Space for Clients Unspeakable Truths

Existential-Spiritual Techniques for Fostering a Healthy Perspective on Aging

Psychodynamic Therapies: How Did We Get Here & Where Are We Going?

Ink Therapy: Harnessing the Power of Vintage Self-Help Books

Losing the Atmosphere, A Memoir: A Baffling Disorder, a Search for Help, and the Therapist Who Understood

Teaching Prisoners to Lead Grief Support Groups

Advice for Young Therapists: A Long View

Avoiding Burnout Traps: Managing the Conflict between Empathy and Exhaustion

Psychotherapy Status Report: Past Achievements/Current Failures/Future Disruptions

The Benefits of Making Metaphors Meaningful in Psychotherapy

Thomas Doherty on Ecopsychology and the Ethical Imperative of Ecotherapy

The Disconnection of Depression: How to Restore Attachment Using Cognitive Interventions

Finding Ways to Communicate with Clients About Their Symptoms

The Wisdom of Therapist Uncertainty

Terminally Ill Pediatric Patients and the Grieving Therapist

Avoiding the Adverse Impact of Electronic Communication in Couples Therapy

Coming Full Circle: Helping a Young Couple Through Their Grief

How a Missed Therapy Session and Self-Disclosure Led to Therapeutic Gains

Sidestepping the Dependency Dance in Psychotherapy

A Healing Journey: Developing Coping Skills in the Face of Trauma

How to Use Structured Writing to Help Clients Unclutter

Ethics or Protocol: Children Must Take Priority

Challenging a Beloved Therapist: A Catalyst to Growth

Politics on the Couch

Donald Meichenbaum on Coping with Loss and Traumatic Bereavement

Mapping the Heart Of OCD: Going Beyond the Conditions We Know

Supporting Recently Traumatized Youth in a Crisis of Dissociation and Self-Harm

Psychotherapy with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Suicidal Debates with Clients in Psychotherapy

Psychologists Struggle Too: How Shame Keeps Us Silent

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?

Deploying Therapeutic Airbags to Enhance Clinical Outcome

My Romance with Narrative Letters: Counter-Storying Through Letter Writing

Psychotherapists Are the Luckiest People on Earth

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

Awareness: Attunement, Access, and Affirmation

Ethical & Legal Considerations in Using ChatGPT as an Aid for Clinical Diagnosis

Using A Holistic Approach to Therapy with Clients Experiencing Chronic Illness, Disability, and Mental Health Challenges

The Challenges and Rewards of Therapeutic Work with Brain-Injured Clients

Deciding How to Die: Narrative Therapy in Palliative Care with Someone Considering Stopping Dialysis

An Early Career Lesson in Boundary Setting Helps the Client and Therapist Grow

Mary Jo Barrett on the Collaborative Treatment of Incest and Complex Developmental Trauma

The CORE Approach to Therapy: Helping Jennie Find Resilience

A Shared Diagnosis: Managing Breast Cancer Together

Containing The Adult ADHD Fad — With a Rejoinder from ChatGPT

When Clients Ask, “What Do You Want for Me?”

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

Critical Tips for Building and Maintaining Your Private Practice: Avoiding Self-Defeat

Strengthening the Therapy Relationship with Gay Men

The Costs and Benefits of Virtual Reality in Psychotherapy

Stealing a Passage Home: Narrative Therapy to Re-claim Honesty

The Symbolic Healing Power of Traditional Coping Strategies

Katja-Writing: Being Author and Audience to Fictionalized Stories of Trauma- Part II

Will Computers Replace Psychotherapists?

Makungu Akinyela on Testimony and the Mattering of Black Therapy

Therapy as a Means of Balancing Loss with Acceptance

Katja-Writing: Being Author and Audience to Fictionalized Stories of Trauma- Part I

Cognitive Reframing is the Key to Counselling High-Conflict Couples

Psychotherapy With Non-Verbal Clients: Blending Empathy and Flexibility

Using Common Sense Problem-Solving and Worry Containment to Subdue Ruminations

Reducing the Negative Impact of Reasonable Expectations on Healthy Relationships

The Realm of Our Industry

Successful Psychotherapy Comes Down to Finding the Motivation for Change

Love is Not All You Need: A Revolutionary Approach to Parental Abuse

Breaking the Rules: When Parroting is the Best Approach in Therapy

How to Use Inner Processes in Play Therapy to Help Traumatized Children

Do Clients Really Read Session Notes? The Truth Might Surprise You

What I Know Now About the Clients Risks and Rewards of Reporting Sexual Assault

Wrapped in Care: Narrative Therapy in the Time of COVID

Using Psychotherapy to Heal a Lifetime of Pain and Shame

Can Chat Bot Therapy Really Replace Authentic Connection?

How To Map the Toxic Impact of Social Media on Families in Therapy

Death Cafes: You’re Going Where?

Imagined into Agency: Goth Lolita Comes to Life

Where Do You Draw the Line Between Psychotherapy and Coaching?

How to Help Clients Change the Narrative of Aging

Psychotherapy with a WW II Survivor: Bearing Grief with Grace

Krista Tippett on the Immensity of Our Lives

A Therapist Uses Her Grief as a Resource for Working with Trauma

Addressing Countertransference in Grief Counseling

Current Developments in Clinical Suicidology and Mental Health Crisis Management

Why Effective Psychotherapy is a Full-Body Contact Sport

The Truth About Professional Growing Pains from a Novice Psychotherapist

Psychotherapy and Multiple Sclerosis: Behind The Mask of Joy

Social Media Monitoring Tips for Successful Psychotherapy with Teens

How to Watch Master Therapists in Session and Build Clinical Competence

The Upside of Loss: Helping Grieving Clients in Therapy

How To Keep Students Engaged Using Psychotherapy Training Videos

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

The Gift of Presence in Grief Counseling: A Path Forward

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

Successful Trauma Therapy Does Not Require Forgiveness

Dreams, Nightmares, and the Key to Successful Trauma Therapy

How Mental Illness Protects Clients Wounded by Trauma

Radical Listening: A Key to Therapeutic Success

Critical Counseling Tips for Guiding Parents of Gifted Children

Laughter and Humor Can Be the Best Therapy

Radical Listening is the Secret Ingredient to Successful Psychotherapy

Storytelling in Counseling Is Often the Key to Successful Outcomes

How to Resurrect a Dying Relationship One Emotion at a Time

How to Help Veterans Haunted by War Reclaim Their Humanity

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 Time Tested Methods for Attracting New Referrals and Building Your Brand

In a Volatile Post-Roe World, Morals and Medicine Clash

How to Learn from Painful Early Career Failures

Victor Yalom on Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mastery

Self-Esteem is Overrated. Here’s Why Self-Compassion is Better

Improving Your Clinical Presence with Receptivity and Gratitude

How to Overcome Self-Doubt as a Therapist

How to Focus on Emotions to Help Volatile Couples Reconnect

Powerful Ways to Improve Your Presence with Suicidal Clients

Surrounded by the Village Idiots

How to Improve Your Therapy with Playfulness

Can Psychotherapy Really Survive the Onslaught of Venture Capitalism?

Psychotherapy Behind Prison Walls. Does it Really Help?

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

Perfectionism in Highly Intelligent Clients: Therapeutic Strategies

Need Management Therapy: A Clinical GPS for Couples Work

Judgmental Health

Trauma Survivors React to Overturning Roe

Full Container

The Encounter at the Doorway

Our Masturbation Machines

Making Clichés Work in Therapy

The Rest of the Story: Digging Beneath the Diagnosis

Acknowledging the Impact of Cancel Culture on Therapy

Working Therapeutically with Generational Conflict

“Insta” Therapy on Social Media: Caveat Emptor

How to Survive Pandemic Pandemonium in Nursing Facilities

What Root Canal Surgery Taught Me About Being a Therapist

Clients Deal with Ethics Too

Dr. Shelley F. Diamond: A Psychotherapist Facing Death

In Praise of Termination

Whose Exposure Is It, Anyway?

The Subtle Art of Therapeutic Rudeness

On the Continuum of Real to Imagined Abandonment

Taking Care of My Own Mental Health

Data Mining: The Brave New World of Mental Health

Thomas Insel on Science, Zip Code, and Future-Proofing Psychotherapy

Reclaiming Our Artistry, One Session at a Time

Survival Strategies

Attending to Attachment in the Treatment of Incarcerated Women

Encouraging Clients to be Preventative

Healing Wounded Images of Self and God

Psychotherapists Do Not Cry Here: Hope During the War in Ukraine

Russian Shame

Corrective Emotional Experience Is the Key to Therapeutic Effectiveness

An Existential-Spiritual Journey During COVID-19

Addressing the Relational Impact of Mental Illness

A Visit to the Orwellian Institute for Psychotherapy

Truth and Fiction in Psychotherapy

A Behavior Treatment Plan as a Psychological MRI

The Practice of Behavior as Medicine

Is Psychotherapy Still an Infant Science?

Metaphor and Early Warning Systems in Psychotherapy with Narcissistic Patients

To Text or Not to Text: A Vacationing Therapist

Confusion of Tongues

Listening for Meaning in the Voices Nursing Home Clients Hear

Grief, The Dismissed Yet Common Experience

Stefani Goerlich on Becoming a Kink-Affirming Therapist

Setbacks in Psychotherapy

Melting Fear with Love

Anger and Powerlessness in the Era of COVID: Changing the Narrative

The Day My Life Turned Upside Down

Then My Christianity Kicked In

Confessions of a Student Counsellor

Countering Client Hostility with Radical Candor

Where Do the Therapist’s Tears Come From

Thinking of You Too

A Revealing Moment

Successful Intervention with a Family Impacted by Treatment-Resistant BPD

Ancestral Narrative Building: A Path to Healing Generational Trauma

That Tipsy Session: The Power of Self-Disclosure

When Psychotherapist and Client Share Similar Crises

Finding a New Normal in the Era of COVID

A Path Towards Self-Compassion and Healing

Russell Ramsay on Attending to ADHD in Adulthood

Unlocked: Online Therapy Stories

Psychocardiology: Psychotherapists Helping Cardiac Patients

Exploring Our Client’s Multiverse

Therapeutic Reflections of a Former Gang Member

Fellow Therapists: Do You Work With Sex Offenders?

Costumed Authenticity: Building Trust in LGBTQ+ Telehealth

Psychodermatology: Understanding the Mental Health Component of Skin Conditions

Jude Austin on Wisdom for Counseling Students and Educators

Overcoming the Pernicious Chronicle

A Matter of Death and Life

The Pygmalion Effect and Treating Incarcerated Individuals with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness

Relief or Change? Which is the Most Meaningful?

Redesign Your Mind in an Instant

Less Treatment, More Therapy

A Universe Opens: Reflections On My First Session as a Therapist

Laurie Helgoe on the Power and Challenges of Introversion

Counseling Gifted Clients: Journeys through the Rainforest Mind

The Flash Technique: A Useful Tool in Treating Trauma

Sometimes I Also Feel Lazy: A Clinician Reflects on Self-Disclosure

Long-Term Psychotherapy and BPD, Part 2: A Dialogue on Trust

Long Term Psychotherapy and BPD, Part 1: A Dialogue on Hope

Jessica Stone on Play Therapy in the Digital Age

Pandemic Lessons for Introverts (and their Therapists)

Imagining the Way to Self-Compassion Using the Ideal Parent Figure Protocol

Interpersonal Connection: Noticing the Needs of Others

Help-Seeking-Rejecting Clients and The Therapist

Countertransference to Sexual and Developmental Trauma in the Psychoanalysis of a Disabled Patient

Strengthening the Online Counseling Relationship: Helpful Tele-Tips

Emergent Anxiety: Facing a Post-COVID Life

The Upward Arrow and the Golden Rule

Existential-Humanistic Therapy in the Age of COVID-19 in Vulnerable Populations

Caring for those Who Care for Our Pets

Treating the Compulsive Personality: Transforming Poison into Medicine

The Four Brahmaviharas and the Quiet Inner Voice

What the APA Apology Means for Black Psychiatry

Understanding the Pandemic’s Impact Through a Developmental Lens

Termination: A Process by Any Other Name

The Thought Process Underlying Perfectionism and How Therapists Can Help

Tokophobia: Recognizing the Multifaceted Fear of Pregnancy and Childbirth

The Queen’s Gambit and Me: The Surprising Similarity Between Therapy and Chess

How an Anti-Tech Group Therapist Became a True Believer

Standing Up to Microaggression: A Clinician’s Experience

Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Working Towards Therapeutic Solutions with Men

Eating Disorder Triggers and COVID-19: A Guide for Psychotherapists

COVID-19 and the De-Stigmatization of Therapy

Healing the Authoritarian Wound Through Writing: 8 Writing Exercises to Share with Clients

The Virtue of Metaphors

COVID, Counseling, and Caution: Ethical and Relational Concerns

The Performance Trap

Anastasia Piatakhina Giré on Teletherapy, Borders and Building Bridges

Treating the Narcissistic Injury of a Narcissist

Introducing Grief: How My Clients and I Have Embraced the Exploration of Loss

Eating Disorders, Couples, and COVID-19

Preserving Connection in the Age of Polarization and Commodification

2020, The Summer of No

When a Client Resists, I Persist

Dangerous Intimacies: Racism, Risk, and Recovery

The Double Standard

The I-Thou Relationship in the Age of Telehealth

Imagine If We Could All Love This Way: Connection, Healing and Love in the Therapeutic Relationship

Center of the World

Family Therapy in the Age of Zoom: What a Long Strange Trip It Has Been

Tools to Help My Patients

Treating the Somatic Sequelae of Moral Injury

I’m So Glad My Parents Are Dead

Beverly Greene on Race, Racism and Psychotherapy

Helping Domestic Abuse Victims During Quarantine

Psychotherapy with Coronavirus: A Novel Experience

Countertransference: How Are We Doing?

Blind Side

Beyond Resilience: Addressing Moral Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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

En Attente (On Hold)

Ego Liberation: A Buddhist Guide to Escaping Your Mental Prison

David Nylund on Narrative Therapy, Curiosity and Queertopia

Who’s Listening? Smartphones and Psychotherapy

Barry Duncan on The Heart and Soul of Change

What’s the Limit? Maintaining and Understanding Boundaries in Psychotherapy

Trauma and the Reproductive Story

An Ending Without Closure

Daryl Chow on Reigniting Clinical Supervision

Internal Emigration & Online Therapy

Addiction: What Glory in the High Recidivism Rate?

When the Grass Becomes Greener

Grasping at Optimism: When Helping a Suicidal Client Means Letting Life Happen

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

Premature Endings: When Clients Leave Therapists

How to Master the Art of Developing Your Therapeutic Voice

Psychotherapy and Autism

My First Private Patient

The Murder of Hope

How to Maintain Your Therapeutic Dignity with Blood Dripping Down Your Chin

How Self-Disclosure of Learning Differences Guides My Clinical Relationships

The Instant Replay: Reliving a Critical Moment

The Shape of Hopelessness

Addressing Common (and Reasonable) Myths About Exposure-Based Therapy for Child Anxiety

Money Matters in Therapy

When the Clinician Becomes a Client

Why I Hate Alzheimer’s

The 7 Ways Psychotherapists Undermine Psychotherapy

Coping with Infidelity in Professional Couples

Judith Grisel on Addiction, Neuroscience and Choice

Finally Getting Sober

That Certain Feeling: “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)”

Tips for Working with Vegan Clients

Anxiety Management: It

Advanced Harm Reduction: Managing Intoxicated Clients

Talkspace: The New Therapy Room

Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: The Prelude to Healing

Michael Gurian on Masculinity, Neuroscience and Psychotherapy

The F**k-it Button in Clinical Practice

Therapeutic Fanfiction: Rewriting Society

What Do I Say Now? Coping with Uncertainty in Unstructured Psychotherapy

Listening Up and Leaning In: Active Listening in Therapeutic Relationships

Advocating for the LGBTQIAA in Psychotherapy

Responding to an Immediate Negative Transference

Combatting Anxiety,

Train Professionals, Not Just Therapists

Hidden Losses

Online Therapy: An Unexpected Space of Freedom

Therapy with a Condom On

Working with Silence

Depth

Joseph Burgo on Shame, Narcissism and the Art of Empathy

Changing Places

Russian Doll as Case Study: Lessons for Therapists

Introducing Multi-Lens Therapy

Dreaming of the Future

Let’s Meet in the Middle

The Masculinity Trap: A Science-Based Response to the APA Guidelines

Embracing Chronic Anger: A Prescription for Disempowerment

Digital Technology and Parenting:

Erica Anderson on Working Therapeutically Across the Gender Spectrum

The Value of Evidence-Based Treatment That Fails

What Am I Going to Do with all This Stuff?

Where You

Hotel Room Therapy

What Blocks Creativity

Shame Part 4: I Deserve to Feel Bad, Because I am Bad

Janelle Johnson on College Counseling

Treating the Physical Effects of Depression

That’s Child Abuse

Deliberate Practice in Psychotherapy

The Internal Critic: Friend or Foe?

Uncovering and Intervening in the Narcissistic Abuse Cycle

How to Build an Ethical Social Media Presence

Helping Caregivers Find the Kid Inside

Countertransference is not a Flesh-Eating Disease

Might Physical Activity be an Effective Antidepressant?

David Jobes on Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality

Surviving Attacks in Psychotherapy – An Occupational Hazard

Working with Teens: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Paying It Forward: A Fulfilling Reframe

David Barlow on Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders

Superiority and Contempt

Treating Eating Disorders as Disorders of Eating

The Lose-Lose Comment: A Therapist

I Dont Know How To Be Sorry

Reflections of a Psychology Resident in Trauma and Acute Care

A Counselor Visits the US/Mexico Border

Choice: My Lighthouse in a Wave of Disillusionment

Should Therapists Have Scales in their Offices?

Give Me that Feedback

When the Snow-Globe Shatters: A Counselor

Supply and Demand Psychotherapy

Trusting Her Voices: Trusting My Own

The One Thing a Therapist Should Never Say to a Client

Jose Rey on Psychotropic Medications: A Primer for Psychotherapists

In Praise of the Life of a Psychotherapist

Finding Playfulness in the Seriousness

On Holding Your Tongue

Shame Part 2: Shame Proneness

Shame Part 1: Walls are Fears Disguised as Safety

The Healer that is Hurting

Allen Frances on the DSM-5, Mental Illness and Humane Treatment

Imagine You Are a Smart Phone

Why Therapists Choose Online Therapy for Themselves

How To Help Your Clients Undo What They Haven’t Yet Done

Countertransference in the Rearview Mirror May Be Closer Than it Appears

The Not-So-Great Gatsby: An Illustrative Look at the Use of Literature in a Therapy Session

Janina Fisher on Innovations in Treating Trauma

What is Mental Illness? Donald Trump and the Psychiatrists Who Would Diagnose Him

PhDs in Therapy

The Death of Privacy

Grief is a Strange Land

Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop

Anna Lembke on the Opioid Epidemic

Alcoholics Anonymous Founder Bill Wilson’s Long-Lost Treatment Paradigm

Psychotherapy “Terminations” and Beyond

Are High-Risk Clients Suitable for Online Psychotherapy?

Bruce Wampold on What Actually Makes Us Good Therapists

Tony Rousmaniere on Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists

If You Kill Yourself, Don’t Make a Mess: Paradoxical Intention with a Suicidal Client

Ayahuasca Is My Therapist (Or Is It?)

Margo Maine on the Eating Disorder Epidemic Among Middle-Aged Women

The Rolling Stones and the “Age of Anxiety”

Louis Cozolino on the Integration of Neuroscience into Psychotherapy—and its Limitations

Intuitive Therapy

Robert J. Lifton on Political Violence, Activism and Life as a Psycho-Historian

Bad Therapy: When Firing Your Therapist Is Therapeutic

Afflicted with Affect

Look at me!

House Call Revival

The Socially Awkward Therapist

The Imprisoned Brain: Psychotherapy with Inmates in Jail

A Little Girl in a Dark Corner

Whiteness Matters: Exploring White Privilege, Color Blindness and Racism in Psychotherapy

Nothing To Say

The Secret to Getting More Therapy Referrals from Smartphone Users

Jill Scharff on Object Relations Therapy with Couples

Hide-and-Seek in Online Therapy

Statistics Don’t Lie…Except When They Do

Lynn Grodzki on Building a Successful Private Practice

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

What Remains: The Aftermath of Patient Suicide

Losing the Couch: Finding the “Sacred Place” in Online Therapy

Ronald Siegel on Integrating Mindfulness into Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy in the Year 2045

Brooklyn Zoo: The Education of a Psychotherapist

Heather Clague on Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Working with Society’s Most Marginalized Populations

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

Gary Greenberg on the DSM and Its Woes

In Search of the Perfect Private Practitioner

Psychotherapy and the Care of Souls

Lynn Ponton on the Challenges and Joys of Working with Teens

Bad Therapy: What You Didn’t Learn in Grad School

Francine Shapiro on the Evolution of EMDR Therapy

When the Therapist Loves and Hates

What every therapist needs to know about the new natural remedies for mental health

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk on Trauma, Development and Healing

Therapy: A Poem

On Quitting The Practice of Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients

The No-Fee Session

After the Diagnosis: Helping Patients Cope With their Emotions

Howard Kassinove on Anger Management

Fear and Consciousness: What I Learned from a Bike Accident

I’m Rubber, You’re Glue

The Thousand-Armed Therapist

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)

Leave Your Degree at the Door, Dude

Dial-Up Connection

Paradise Lost: When Clients Commit Suicide

Infertility on Both Sides of the Couch

Calisthenics in Front of the Fun House Mirror

George Silberschatz on Psychotherapy Research and Its Discontents

Technology and Psychotherapy

Charles Mansueto on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

The Dark Intruder

Psychiatry by the Dumpster: One Man’s Struggle with OCD

Talk is Cheap. Really.

Clocked

The Power of Custom in Psychotherapy

Our Hungry Selves: Women, Eating and Identity

The Ones That Get Away

When Life Gets Messy, Don’t Cut and Run!

Verbal Ventilation: The highway to intimacy and the key process of therapy

Gone in 60 Seconds: How to Handle a Mental Health Workshop Heckler

Transforming War Trauma: The Healing Power of Community

The Lying Artist

The Therapist and the Fee: Why Everything Works out and Also Doesn

Self-Care for Therapists

Psychoanalysis is Alive and Well

Vanquishing the Inner Critic

Through the Anger Looking Glass

Michael Lambert on Preventing Treatment Failures (and Why You’re Not as Good as You Think)

The “L” Word

Seeing Medusa in Every Client

Christian Conte on Anger Management

The Tao of Anger Management: A Yield Theory Approach

Treating a Couple After an Affair

Why Its Time to Take Mobile Seriously

Tara Brach on Mindfulness, Psychotherapy and Awakening

Continuous outcome assessment

Encounters with Suicide: A Psychotherapist Remembers Not to Forget

The Truth About Facebook and Your Practice

Mental Illness in Politics

Reid Wilson on Strategic Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Albert Ellis and the Traveling Road Show

Philip Kendall on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

The Joy of Small Miracles in Psychotherapy

Grief and Gratitude: Working with Stroke Survivors

Psychotherapy: Terminal or Interminable

Cathy Cole on Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing in End-of-Life Care

Ethics of Treating Two Psychotherapy Clients who Know Each Other

First Impressions in Psychotherapy

Two Therapy Poems

Psychotherapy with Older Adults: Unjustified Fears, Unrecognized Rewards

Esther Perel on Mating in Captivity

Videotaping Therapy

Assessing Partner Abuse in Couples Therapy

John Arden on Brain-Based Therapy

Techniques, Therapeutic Relationship and the Importance of the Body

Nordstrom: Psychotherapy Lessons From The Cathedral Of Commerce

The Whole Truth: Coping Creatively with the Dark Side of Therapeutic Practice

Eda Gorbis on Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Conduct Therapy Sessions Like Ellis Or Rogers In 7 Days Or Your Money Back!

Ethical Guidelines: Do We Really Want What Is Best For Our Clients?

How One Desperate St. Louis Psychotherapist Cured A Schizophrenic

Violet Oaklander on Gestalt Therapy with Children

The God of Hellfire Will See You Now

Robin Rosenberg on Treating Eating Disorders

Sleep and the Therapist: A Poem

Psychotherapy with Former Cult Members

Training for the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Listening versus Hearing in Psychotherapy

Turning Blaming into Confiding in Couples Therapy

Lonnie Barbach on Sex Therapy

The 7 real reasons why psychotherapists flunk their licensing and certification exams

Couch Fiction

Frank Ochberg on Treating PTSD

Treating Special Clients in Psychotherapy

The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist

Free Psychotherapy Training

Collaborative Couple Therapy With High Conflict Couples

Fact and Fiction in Psychology

Working in the Here-and-Now of the Therapeutic Relationship

Interacting Sensitivities in Couples Therapy

The Lake Wobegon Effect

Eysenck, Rogers and Psychotherapy Effectiveness

Psychotherapy outcomes: The best therapy or the best therapist?

Preventing Psychotherapy Dropouts with Client Feedback

Psychotherapy Training on Steroids: Remote Live Supervision

Rules for a Good Relationship

Alan Marlatt on Harm Reduction Therapy

Trusting the Client as the Agent of Change

Suicide During the Holidays . . . Not So Much!

It’s Over Now: Termination and Countertransference

What if Its All Been a Big Fat Psychotherapeutic Lie?

Methinks Jay Haley Hit the Bulls Eye

How Therapists Fail: Why Too Many Clients Drop Out of Therapy Prematurely

Duped and Recouped

Working with the Unemotional in Emotionally Focused Therapy

Why a Therapist Should Care About a Clients Favorite Brand of Shampoo

Receiving Gifts in Psychotherapy

Its the Psychiatric Meds, Stupid!

Ethical and Legal Issues in Telephone Therapy

Gottman and Gray: The Two Johns

Kenneth Doka on Grief Counseling and Psychotherapy

Owen Renik on Practical Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Peter Levine on Somatic Experiencing

Mardi Horowitz on Psychotherapy Research and Happiness

Lisa Firestone on Psychotherapy with Suicidal Clients

Stephanie Brown on Treating Addictions in Psychotherapy

The Psychiatric Repression of Thomas Szasz: Its Social and Political Significance

What Do We Believe and Whom Do We Trust?

Psychotherapy with Medically Ill Patients: Hope in the Trenches

Michael Yapko on Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Depression

Dan Wile on Collaborative Couples Therapy

Thomas Szasz on Freedom and Psychotherapy

Ronald Levant on Psychotherapy with Men

Otto Kernberg on Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Susan Heitler on Couples Therapy

John Gottman on Couples Therapy

Nick Cummings on the Past and Future of Psychotherapy

Larry Beutler on Science and Psychotherapy

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

The Gift of Therapy

Emotional Flashback Management in the Treatment of Complex PTSD

When the Therapist Leaves: A Personal Account of an Unusual Termination

The Empty Chair: Making Our Absence Less Traumatic for Everyone

Transition Into Sports Psychology

A Few Simple Questions

Tyranny of Niceness: A Psychotherapeutic Challenge

Lessons from the Depths: Scuba Diving and Psychotherapy with Men

The Man with the Beautiful Voice

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

Clinical Wisdom: A Psychoanalyst Learns from his Mistakes

How To Be A Grown-up Even Around Your Own Parents

Work Is Life: A Psychologist Looks at Identity and Work in America

Breaking Barriers to Doing Corporate Consulting

Hollywood on the Couch

Resistant Clients: We’ve All Had Them; Here’s How to Help Them!

Supershrinks: What is the secret of their success?

Beyond Psychotherapy: Working Outside the Medical Model

The Therapist Mourns His Mother’s Death: Being With Clients While Heartbroken

Self-Help Snake Oil and Self-Improvement Urban Legends

A Psychotherapist’s Guide to Facebook and Twitter: Why Clinicians Should Give a Tweet!

My, How Couples Therapy has Changed! Attachment, Love and Science

Cancer and The Secret

Weekends At Bellevue: A Memoir

Where’s the Bear?

When a Patient Dies . . . Should the Therapist Attend the Funeral?

Lowering Fees in Hard Times: The Meaning Behind the Money

Therapeutic Alliance, Focus, and Formulation: Thinking Beyond the Traditional Therapy Orientations

Healing Trauma Through the Body: The Way In is the Way Out

“When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad I’m better”: A New Mantra for Psychotherapists

A Crash Course in Psychotherapy: Moving through Anxiety and Self-Doubt

Family Therapy with Families Facing Catastrophic Illness: Building Internal and External Resources

Shades of Gray: When a therapist and her client are survivors of child abuse

9/11 One Year Later: A Psychotherapist Reflects on His Experiences at Ground Zero

Edna Foa on Prolonged Exposure Therapy

Transforming the Wounds of Racism: An Autoethnographic Exploration and Implications for Psychotherapy

Don Clark on Psychotherapy with Gay Clients

H2O Under the Bridge: A Case of Trichotillomania