The Grief We Hold
Loving in the Midst of Loss
Our soul and our psyche know how to grieve. We don't need to learn it. It's not a technique. What we need to learn is not to avoid it.
Magazine Article
Point of View
Scaling Up Mental Health: Sharing Our Expertise with a Wider Community
Psychologist Ali Mattu is on a mission to bring therapeutic principles to the mainstream.
Magazine Article
Point of View
The Narcissism Trap: Navigating High-Conflict Personality Styles
An expert on narcissism discusses how to help clients get clear about gaslighting and other abuses in their relationships.
Magazine Article
Therapy From the Podcast Studio
Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch discuss “Dear Therapists”
The therapists and writers have teamed up to produce a podcast that addresses a listener’s problem, provides specific advice, and then checks in to see whether or not it helped—all the while trying to work together as a team and provide a unified response.
Daily Blog
Point of View
30 Is Not the New 20
Why our 20s are a developmental sweet spot, and what therapists should know about helping clients make the most of them.
Magazine Article
Helping Clients in Toxic Relationships
How to Unravel Trauma Bonds
It’s important to recognize that a trauma bond doesn’t have to play out as overt, obvious toxicity or abuse. So many people in relationships have learned to be loved in ways that are transactional—“If you do this for me, I’ll comfort you,” or “If you play this role, I’ll show you affection”—and it's now exhausting them. Therapist and researcher Laura Copley shares how to help clients interrupt these unhealthy, even dangerous, relational patterns.
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Point of View
How Private Practice Can Survive COVID-19
Discovering new possibilities for private practice in a time of upheaval—and planning for more uncertainty.
Magazine Article
Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) Training Course
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RONALD D SIEGEL, PSY.D.
MARGARET WEHRENBERG, PSY.D.
REID WILSON, PH.D.
CATHERINE PITTMAN, PH.D., HSPP
LYNN LYONS, LICSW
RYAN HOWES, PHD, ABPP
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RONALD D SIEGEL, PSY.D.
MARGARET WEHRENBERG, PSY.D.
REID WILSON, PH.D.
CATHERINE PITTMAN, PH.D., HSPP
LYNN LYONS, LICSW
RYAN HOWES, PHD, ABPP
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Point of View
Listening to Suicidal Clients: How to Get Beyond our Fears
A suicidologist opens up about her personal struggles and what actually helps when working with suicidal clients.
Magazine Article
Point of View
A VAST Difference: Depathologizing ADHD
Rather than a curse, Ned Hallowell believes an ADHD diagnosis can be a blessing.
Magazine Article
Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) Training Course
Copyright:
5/29/2020
Authors:
RONALD D SIEGEL, PSY.D.
MARGARET WEHRENBERG, PSY.D.
REID WILSON, PH.D.
CATHERINE PITTMAN, PH.D., HSPP
LYNN LYONS, LICSW
RYAN HOWES, PHD, ABPP
Product:
NRS001324-EVG
Copyright:
5/29/2020
Authors:
RONALD D SIEGEL, PSY.D.
MARGARET WEHRENBERG, PSY.D.
REID WILSON, PH.D.
CATHERINE PITTMAN, PH.D., HSPP
LYNN LYONS, LICSW
RYAN HOWES, PHD, ABPP
Product:
NRS001324-EVG
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Therapy From the Podcast Studio
Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch discuss “Dear Therapists”
The therapists and writers have teamed up to produce a podcast that addresses a listener’s problem, provides specific advice, and then checks in to see whether or not it helped—all the while trying to work together as a team and provide a unified response.
Daily Blog
Helping Clients in Toxic Relationships
How to Unravel Trauma Bonds
It’s important to recognize that a trauma bond doesn’t have to play out as overt, obvious toxicity or abuse. So many people in relationships have learned to be loved in ways that are transactional—“If you do this for me, I’ll comfort you,” or “If you play this role, I’ll show you affection”—and it's now exhausting them. Therapist and researcher Laura Copley shares how to help clients interrupt these unhealthy, even dangerous, relational patterns.
Daily Blog
Celebrating Singles!
Researcher Bella DePaulo on Keeping Our "Matrimania" in Check
By Ryan Howes - While many studies promote the mental and physical benefits of marriage, long-time singles advocate Bella DePaulo says the reported findings are biased, and we therapists need to better understand the single population as more than people waiting to find the right partner.
Daily Blog
Therapy with Teenage Girls
The Seven Transitions into Adulthood
By Ryan Howes - In the following interview, New York Times columnist and author Lisa Damour gives us a glimpse at the map she’s developed for both therapists and parents trying to help teenage girls make their way through the treacherous, often bewildering landscape of adolescence in today’s world.
Daily Blog
The Five Dimensions of Good Anxiety Treatment
An Interview with Anxiety Researcher David Barlow
By Ryan Howes - Author David Barlow is widely considered the dean of anxiety researchers. In the following interview, he shares his thoughts on the nature of anxiety and what research has revealed about the most effective treatments for it.
Daily Blog
The Golden Rule of Habit Change
Lessons on Expert Productivity
By Ryan Howes - At times, the line between stable and stuck-in-a-rut can become a bit blurry. So we turned to New York Times journalist Charles Duhigg, author of the bestseller The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business to see if he’d share how his findings may help us therapists, both personally and professionally.
Daily Blog
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
Pediatrician and TED Speaker Nadine Burke Harris on Treating the "Whole Person"
By Ryan Howes - Several years ago, pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris had a eureka moment when she discovered the adverse childhood experiences study (ACEs), which helped her realize her young patients with the most stubborn physical ailments were coping with all kinds of traumas.
Daily Blog
Trauma Therapy Meets Theater
An Unusual Program is Helping Vets Rewire from War
By Ryan Howes - Therapists know that words can heal. But what if the words were in iambic pentameter and delivered from a stage? Veteran and professional actor Stephan Wolfert is testing a PTSD intervention that for decades has been pairing classical theater training with the science of trauma.
Daily Blog
Learning to Relish the Challenge
A Motivation Expert Weighs in on the Downside of Overpraise
By Ryan Howes - Should we praise children, students, clients, and ourselves for being smart people who earn top marks? According to motivation expert and bestselling author Carol Dweck, praising intelligence often creates people devoid of resilience and motivation. It’s far more important, she says, to enhance people’s ability to tackle adversity and persevere.
Daily Blog
What Can We Do to Stem the Suicide Spike?
An Interview with Psychiatry Professor and Author Kay Redfield Jamison
By Ryan Howes - Helping suicidal clients is one of the most important interventions we can make as therapists, and it’s one of the scariest aspects of our work. Kay Redfield Jamison, psychiatry professor and bestselling author, shares her thoughts on how the fields of medicine and psychology can work to better understand and treat severe mood disorders and suicidality.
Daily Blog
The Grief We Hold
Loving in the Midst of Loss
Our soul and our psyche know how to grieve. We don't need to learn it. It's not a technique. What we need to learn is not to avoid it.
Magazine Article
Point of View
Scaling Up Mental Health: Sharing Our Expertise with a Wider Community
Psychologist Ali Mattu is on a mission to bring therapeutic principles to the mainstream.
Magazine Article
Point of View
The Narcissism Trap: Navigating High-Conflict Personality Styles
An expert on narcissism discusses how to help clients get clear about gaslighting and other abuses in their relationships.
Magazine Article
Point of View
30 Is Not the New 20
Why our 20s are a developmental sweet spot, and what therapists should know about helping clients make the most of them.
Magazine Article
Point of View
How Private Practice Can Survive COVID-19
Discovering new possibilities for private practice in a time of upheaval—and planning for more uncertainty.
Magazine Article
Point of View
Listening to Suicidal Clients: How to Get Beyond our Fears
A suicidologist opens up about her personal struggles and what actually helps when working with suicidal clients.
Magazine Article
Point of View
A VAST Difference: Depathologizing ADHD
Rather than a curse, Ned Hallowell believes an ADHD diagnosis can be a blessing.
Magazine Article
Point of View
Community Matters: New Possibilities for Mental Health
A passionate advocate for mental health in underserved communities confronts the question, “Why don’t more black people go to treatment, and why don’t they take their kids?”
Magazine Article
Point of View
Research or Reality? The Flawed Science of Psychotherapy
As academic researchers continue the push for manualized, protocol-driven therapy, a psychodynamic therapist pushes back.
Magazine Article
Point of View
Immigration and Trauma: How Can Therapists Help?
How therapists can help the traumatized community of immigrants and asylum seekers.
Magazine Article
Ryan Howes, PhD, ABPP, is a writer and clinical professor at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology.
