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Let Us Know How YOU Would Tackle This Situation in Your Practice...
Even the best therapists rely on advice from peers. In the spirit of building community, we're introducing Clinician's Quandary, a new forum where you can weigh in on how you'd handle a particular clinical quagmire. Here's this month's Quandary.
How Do I Make Phone Sessions Effective?
Five Clinicians Weigh In
June 2020 Clinician's Quandary: Teletherapy allows therapists to notice their clients' subtle expressions, movements, and gestures. But some clients prefer phone sessions, which can make clinicians feel hindered. Here, five therapists offer tips and strategies that can help make phone sessions just as effective as those done over video.
Homeschooling and the ADHD Child
Six Therapy Strategies for Busy Parents
With summer camps cancelled and many schools indefinitely closed, a therapist shares six homeschooling strategies that have served him well in helping the parents and support networks of children with ADHD.
Managing Confidentiality
Three Things I Learned from My Small-Town Practice
When you practice in a rural town, sometimes it can feel like everyone is connected to each other. Instead of worrying about boundary and confidentiality violations, I've learned a strategy that embraces the dilemma instead of avoiding it.
VIDEO: Creating a Safe Space to Talk about Racial Trauma
Self-Exploration, Soft Introductions, and Leaving a Door Open
How can white clinicians create a safe space in therapy for clients of color to talk about racial trauma? And if clients don't bring it up, should the therapist? Four mental health professionals give their perspectives on how to open the conversation.
Finding Strength in the Symptom
Breaking Free from the Limits of Our Medical Treatment Model
If we spend too much time preoccupied with our clients’ symptoms, we’re likely to miss important clues to their hidden strengths. I’ve learned that turning a symptom into a client’s ally can transform the whole experience of therapy for both the therapist and client.
VIDEO: Gabor Maté on Making Sense of Our Pain
Finding a Pathway to Compassion for Ourselves and Others
What can we do to do to address the overwhelming anxiety in our lives right now? What can we do to be kinder to ourselves, to be in a better position to effect positive change, as therapists and as human beings? Physician, trauma expert, and bestselling author Gabor Maté offers his perspective.
A New Stretch of the River
Learning to Age with New Openness in Our Hearts and Minds
As we age, our bodies and relationships change, and the pace of change accelerates. At 70, we’re unlikely to be able to function as we did in our 50s. We require fresh visions and new paradigms for framing our experiences. What worked yesterday will not be sufficient for tomorrow.
White Therapists, Here’s What Your Black Colleagues Want You to Know
20 Therapists of Color on Race-Based Trauma
For people of color, the murder of George Floyd reignites centuries of collective grief and trauma. Here, the two founders of Clinicians of Color share some of their members’ experiences with race-based trauma as well as their guidance on how white therapists can better support them and clients of color.
