Lost and Found
Scenes from a Miscarriage
July/August 2020
The story of a miscarriage is often about crushed hope, but it can also bring unexpected possibility.
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Meeting the Moment
The Importance of Risk in Therapy
July/August 2020
The therapist’s office is a zone of creative adventure and unpredictability, where the most powerful moments often come out of the blue.
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Point of View
How Private Practice Can Survive COVID-19
July/August 2020
Discovering new possibilities for private practice in a time of upheaval—and planning for more uncertainty.
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Practice Tools - July/August 2020 Issue
Teaching Children to Recognize & Change Their Autonomic State
July/August 2020
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The Therapy Beat
The Free Therapy Movement Breaks New Ground
July/August 2020
The movement to offer more free therapy and expand access to treatment gains momentum.
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Therapeutic Approaches to Miscarriage
Four Tips for Processing Grief
July/August 2020
We still don’t have a clear and reliable road map for navigating the unique grief that comes with losing a wanted pregnancy.
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Racism as a Social Disease
November/December 2015
One of the major contributions that the psychotherapeutic community could make now is to begin to engage with racism as a social disease that affects everybody in the society.
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Small Victories
November/December 2015
Regardless of training, the most important thing a therapist can have is the strong belief that clients can get better, despite life circumstances.
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Bookmarks
The Reality of Home DNA Tests
May/June 2020
A new book explores the reality of home DNA testing and the often unexpected fallouts.
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Broken Mirrors
From Storytelling 2020
May/June 2020
When we can acknowledge the dark forces that reside within us.
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Case Study
How to Find the “Can” in “Can’t”
May/June 2020
It takes creativity to apply basic therapy tools, especially when depression has set in and negative cognitions have taken over.
*Commentary by DAVID TREADWAY
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Clinician's Digest
Left Behind: Counselors Seek Medicare Reimbursement
May/June 2020
The long, hard fight to fix a legislative gap.
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Couples Under Quarantine
From Virtual Symposium 2020
May/June 2020
Differences in how couples handle this situation can be a real bone of contention, but sometimes using humor, especially dark humor, gives us some sense of agency when a frightening reality threatens to engulf us.
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Editor's Note
May/June 2020
The stories in this issue are notable not only for their therapeutic wisdom, but also for their authors’ capacity to connect with us in a time of unprecedented crisis. Written at warp speed, the talks highlighted from our Virtual Symposium this year speak directly to our anxiety, grief, and bafflement as we found ourselves—it’s still barely believable—in the grip of a pandemic.
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Facing the Challenge
Psychotherapy Responds to the Pandemic
May/June 2020
If ever a conference devoted to “The Art of Healing in an Anxious Time” was needed, this is that time. At the 2020 Virtual Symposium, some of the field’s leaders offered both practical guidance and personal perspective on how to put what we know about trauma, mindfulness, and emotional connection to work as we confront a crisis few of us imagined possible.
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Family Matters
Sorting Through a Closet Full of Memories
May/June 2020
When a mother and daughter are cut from different cloths, can they still hang in the same closet?
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Hot Chips
From Storytelling 2020
May/June 2020
When providing a secure base means overturning conventions.
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In Consultation
Dating at Midlife
May/June 2020
Helping clients who find themselves single again in midlife navigate a new world of dating.
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Isolation and Self-Care
From Virtual symposium 2020
May/June 2020
Even in a restrictive time like this, when so many of us are divorced from the ordinary structures of our lives, there are practical things we can do to address what our brains need to function properly.
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Letters from Home
From Storytelling 2020
May/June 2020
Finding hope in a hopeless situation.
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Playing Together Apart
Figuring Out Teletherapy for Kids
May/June 2020
Without a well-researched paradigm for reaching young children who might need teleplay therapy in an uncertain time like this, therapists are forging ahead into unknown territory.
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Point of View
Listening to Suicidal Clients: How to Get Beyond our Fears
May/June 2020
A suicidologist opens up about her personal struggles and what actually helps when working with suicidal clients.
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Practice Tools - May/June 2020 Issue
49 Relationship Questions for Every Couple
May/June 2020
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Radical Compassion in Challenging Times
From Virtual Symposium 2020
May/June 2020
At times, when things fall apart, as they are in our world right now, each of us has an essential medicine to offer. So the inquiry—Who do you want to be? And what kind of world do we want?—becomes critical. Just as there’s a viral contagion, it’s crucial to remember that loving presence is contagious.
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