We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular posts and arranged them here by topic.
...While Still Validating Their Pain
Courtney Armstrong
How do you help clients access resourceful states when they’re feeling hopeless and helpless? In this short video, trauma specialist Courtney Armstrong explains.
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A Child-Friendly Approach to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Aureen Pinto Wagner
By Aureen Pinto Wagner - While CBT is widely considered the treatment of choice for children with OCD, effectiveness is contingent on overcoming a formidable obstacle: children's reluctance to engage in exposure therapy because they think that facing their fears without performing rituals will be too scary and impossible. Here's a fun yet effective approach that tackles this problem.
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Five Clinicians Give Their Take
Psychotherapy Networker
Fourteen-year-old client Tyler’s parents brought him to therapy because they say he rarely engages with classmates or teachers, isn’t interested in extracurriculars, and heads straight to his room after school to play video games. They worry he’s depressed, but he’s mostly responsive in therapy and insists he’s happy. Here's how five therapists say they'd proceed.
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A Story of One Woman’s Journey for Help
Diane Cole
By Diane Cole - An OCD sufferer describes the frustrating stops and starts and misdirections of her circuitous search for help in escaping the maze of her family of origin and the deep-seated tropes in her own brain.
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Four Ways to Push Pause on a Verbal Bully
Kate Cohen-Posey
By Kate Cohen-Posey - We live in an age in which using toxic verbiage against others has almost become the norm. Here's how we can help clients deal with these kinds of situations in the moment.
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In Spite of Loss, Learning to Find Joy Where You Can
Lori Gottlieb
By Lori Gottlieb - What do you do when your life’s expectations get turned upside down?
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...And the Transformative Session That Inspired Its Creator
Mary Sykes Wylie
By Mary Sykes Wylie - Cognitive behavioral therapy is arguably the most successful therapy ever developed. But where did this streamlined, efficient, practical therapy come from that would prove such a good match for our fast-paced, high-tech civilization?
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Is Our Goal Spiritual Growth or Symptom Reduction?
Ronald Siegel
By Ronald Siegel - As mindfulness practices work their way into the psychotherapeutic mainstream, we’re starting to ask more clinically sophisticated questions: Who needs what practice when? What about the downsides of some mindfulness interventions?
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Following the Spark to Create Connection
Ron Taffel
By Ron Taffel - As a field, we've been unconscious of the nature of the conversation that energizes our models and techniques. Without it, treatment can be a textbook exercise lacking the power to make clients feel a truly alive and personal connection with their therapist.
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Dafna Lender Demonstrates Three Proven Techniques
Dafna Lender
Any therapist who works with kids will tell you that incorporating play in therapy is a great way to break the ice, reduce anxiety, and strengthen the therapeutic alliance. But as Dafna Lender explains, it also works great with adults. Here, she demonstrates three of her favorite techniques.
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