Ryan Howes

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Online Story

January 25, 2023

Teaching Kids Resilience through Storytelling

A Conversation with Psychologist and Children's Book Author Amy Howell

For a therapist who writes children’s books, story time provides what might be the most important parenting opportunity of the entire day. Read More

Magazine Article - Point of View

January 4, 2023

Processing Trauma in a Flash?

A Conversation with Philip Manfield

Ryan Howes

With roots in the EMDR protocol, the Flash Technique claims to offer a pleasurable path to processing trauma. Read More

Magazine Article - Point of View

November 30, 2022

Rethinking PTSD

How Should We Be Defining Trauma?

Ryan Howes

Amid what some are calling "an age of trauma," have we lost sight of what clinical trauma really looks like? Read More

Magazine Article - Point of View

September 14, 2022

Confronting the Climate Crisis

Helping Clients Face Uncertainty and Fear

Ryan Howes

Psychologist Elizabeth Allured is helping therapists and their clients contend with anxieties about the world’s climate crisis. Read More

Online Story

July 27, 2022

The Mental Health Gym

An Interview with Emily Anhalt

Ryan Howes

Mindfulness apps, thought trackers, CBT courses, and the Uberization of therapy has flooded headlines. But what about psychodynamic or relational approaches? Therapist Emily Anhalt believes that dynamic work can translate to the digital realm, and has built a platform to deliver the principles of depth psychotherapy through the internet. Read More

Magazine Article - Point of View

July 13, 2022

Breaking the Silence on Postpartum Stress

How Therapists Can Help

Ryan Howes

Author Karen Kleiman argues that postpartum distress is normal—and should be normalized more in our society. Read More

Magazine Article - Point of View

May 22, 2022

Reframing Complex PTSD

Can Trauma Symptoms Be Assets?

Ryan Howes

Author Stephanie Foo discusses how she and other C-PTSD survivors have learned to adapt and even thrive. Read More

Magazine Article - Point of View

March 22, 2022

Getting Past You and Me

Cultivating the “Us” in Intimate Relationship

Ryan Howes

Terry Real is on a mission: leading couples into increased intimacy by moving them beyond a culture of individualism. Read More

Magazine Article - Point of View

January 7, 2022

Burnout and the Body

Emily Nagoski on Naming the Real Enemy

Ryan Howes

Self-care has long been touted as a panacea for burnout. Emily Nagoski has a different solution. Read More

Magazine Article - Point of View

November 11, 2021

Total Liberation

A Buddhist Approach to Healing

Ryan Howes

What would therapy look like if the focus was on liberating a client from their setbacks, rather than simply diluting their symptoms? Read More

Ryan Howes, Ph.D., ABPP is a Pasadena, California-based psychologist, musician, and author of the “Mental Health Journal for Men.” Learn more at ryanhowes.net.