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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