
First Person
Creative personal essays on life and familyHow to Build Your Brand as a Therapist
9 Influencers Reveal Their Unconventional ChoicesNine successful therapists reveal their most unconventional steps to branding themselves as mental health influencers. Read more
The founder of Brown Girl Therapy shares her countercultural secret to building an online community. Read more
Bestselling author and podcaster shows you how less can be more in branding. Read more
A renowned therapist, author and influencer challenges the popular wisdom behind branding yourself as a therapist. Read more
After landing a Masterclass series, a renowned relationship expert shares her hard-won formula for discerning what projects to accept and which to turn down. Read more
Living with a Life Coach
When Tensions Between Therapy and Coaching Hit HomeWhen a therapist's husband becomes a life coach, the push-pull widely felt in our field between similar professions gets personal. Read more
The Millennial therapist who took social media by storm shares what sets her apart from other influencers. Read more
Body Grief
How Do We Trust Our Changing Bodies?In the wake of a chronic illness, a body image advocate challenges toxic narratives about what it means to have a healthy body. Read more
Parenting a Neurodivergent Child
Scenes from a Long, Lonely JourneyA mother’s lonely quest to help her undiagnosed Autistic child leads her on a wild goose chase for solutions. Read more
What is Faceblindness?
When Brain Architecture Impacts TherapyTherapists tend to assume all their clients can visualize safe places and past experiences. But some can’t! Read more
Breaking the Cycle of High-Functioning Codependency
When Helper’s High Goes Too FarMany therapists believe their intense care and concern for clients is a form of selfless love. Maybe it’s time to rethink that. Read more
Listening as the Ultimate Spiritual Act
From Passive Process to Active PracticeHow do we change our habit of defensive listening and make emotional presence our practice? Read more
The Silent Treatment
What I Wish I Could Tell My First TherapistA teenage boy being bullied at school experiences a life-saving version of manhood with a patient, quiet therapist. Read more
A Diary of Precious Time
When Even Good News Is Hard NewsWhen cancer recurs, there's no easy way to cope with the sense of loss that accompanies a growing awareness of mortality. Read more
The Funny Therapist
Dismantling Stigma, One Joke at a TimeWhat do therapy and comedy have in common? Therapist and comedian David Granirer has spent over two decades helping aspiring stand-up comics—many in... Read more
Grandma Chin's Funeral
Reflections on Grief and BelongingA bicultural daughter of immigrants struggles to make sense of her identity as she mourns a grandmother she barely knew. Read more
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Is My New Therapist
The Podcast That Changed MeIn 'Wiser Than Me,' Julia Louis-Dreyfus's podcast, accomplished older women generate a free-floating sense of shared sisterhood—like an all-girls slumber... Read more
Parenting with a Coercive Controller
Repairing Attachment When Children Get WeaponizedThe arrival of children in a coercively controlling relationship adds a complicated abuse accelerant. Read more
Discarding the Binary
Talking Sex and Gender with My Ever-Changing ChildHis generation of kids almost had to be gender- and sexuality-questioning to be cool, right? Maybe he was just mirroring what was happening around him. Read more
Love, Loss & Retraumatization
Preventing PTSD in GriefA personal experience of excruciating loss becomes a hard lesson in the neuroscience of grief. Read more
Will Space Aliens Get Therapy?
A Cosmic Perspective on HomeMaybe it’s time for therapists and planetary scientists to hang out more. Read more
Guardians of the Aquifer
Moving from Despair to AdvocacyIn the face of environmental anguish, a therapy icon turns to grassroots activism and finds hope, healing, and connection. Read more
The Restorative Power of Birding
The Wild, Beautiful Healers in Your Own BackyardThe mindful practice of birding can help us find balance in challenging times. Read more
Facing the Past as a Parent
How Our Worst Moments Can Stop Intergenerational TraumaFor one trauma therapist, parenting turned out to be the ultimate trial by fire—and a path to healing and wholeness. Read more
Countering the Mommy Brain Stigma
The Benefits of Maternal Neuroplasticity at WorkRather than a deficiency, “mommy brain” is an asset—and therapists can help their clients embrace it in the workplace. Read more
An Autobiography of Trauma
The Developer of Somatic Experiencing Releases His Own “Body Memory”When the world-renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing begins feeling persistent disturbing sensations come up from childhood, he realizes it’s time to... Read more
Does Microdosing Work?
Chasing a Therapeutic Silver BulletMore and more people are ingesting small amounts of psilocybin on a daily basis in the hope of curing everything from mild irritability to major depression... Read more
A Monogamish Love Triangle
The Painful Geometry of an Open RelationshipA botched foray into polyamory leaves a woman feeling more singularly herself. Read more
Editor's Note: May/June 2024
The Search for Psychedelic-Assisted TherapyWelcome to the new world of psychedelic-assisted healing. It’s no longer a fringe therapy. It’s happening all around us. Read more
Scarred, Not Scary
Bringing Disfigurement Out of the ShadowsTherapists can help disfigured clients build the necessary skills to navigate the documented reality that they’re often avoided, judged, and asked invasive... Read more