Clients with borderline issues, trauma survivors, and others with chronic problems often leave their therapists feeling paralyzed and ineffective--no matter how hard you huff and they puff, you can't blow the problem down...

CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39

Adolescents rarely come to therapy of their own choice and often don't care to talk about their problems with adults...

CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39

Secrets can be like ghosts haunting a family, a veiled threat that can't quite be seen or confronted...

CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39

In this unusual Reading Course, six noted clinicians examine the question of what happens when a client challenges the therapist's core assumptions about change and forces him or her to step out of their personal and professional comfort zone...

CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29

In America, almost everybody has peculiar eating habits, and almost everybody exhibits some little or not-so-little food excesses and fetishes...

CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39

Aging triggers identity issues as powerful as those of adolescence, at a time when we're also coping with critical life-cycle changes, such as our children leaving home, our parents getting ill or dying, physical and financial worries, and retirement...

CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39

As therapists, we often see middle-aged clients who feel a restless sense of regret that they’ve never really followed their dreams or fully lived their lives and our job is to help them explore unlived possibilities within themselves...

CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29

There aren’t many issues that strain the fabric of marriage or family life as much as the chronic or terminal illness of an elderly parent or spouse...

CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29

Escaping the “Groundhog Day” cycle

By William Doherty

Why do we get stuck in “Groundhog Day therapy”—cases in which we spin our wheels from session to session? Before lurching on to alternative treatment strategies, the key to progress is recognizing the need to shift the therapist–client relationship.