Ethics & Career Development
Being a therapist means cultivating awareness of ethical considerations like client privacy and confidentiality, coaching, informed consent, and professional boundaries. All of these concerns have become especially challenging in the digital age, where having an online presence creates new and complicated dilemmas. These articles explore the challenges of growing and managing a practice--and how to overcome them. They address common ethical quandaries and legal pitfalls, issues of self-disclosure, and how to invest wisely in your career. As your therapy career grows, get expert advice from Terry Casey, Bill Doherty, Lynn Grodzki, and others.
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These articles center on the challenges related to boundaries and self-disclosure that therapists navigate in clinical practice. These challenges range from daily realities like cancellation policies to trickier scenarios, like how to respond if you develop romantic feelings towards a client. In these pieces, you'll find reflections that offer guidance on between-session contact, ending the therapeutic relationship with intention, and avoiding teletherapy faux pas. Learn more about how your colleagues engage with and overcome ethical pitfalls to strengthen the clinical alliance and model healthy relational boundaries for their clients.
Career Development
Articles in this collection offer advice from psychotherapists who've long worked to build meaningful and sustainable careers despite setbacks, losses, and course corrections. You'll find discussions on the current state of the field and the ever-expanding role of the therapist, as well as practical advice for choosing the right mentors and showing up as your authentic self in the therapy room. From graduate school to choosing a specialty to building a private practice, these pieces offer perspectives from successful therapists who've created a new path they want to ensure others can follow.
Coaching
These articles explore exactly where psychotherapy and life coaching overlap, diverge, and sometimes collide, both clinically and ethically. They look at what happens when therapists become coaches themselves, and the legal issues all therapist-coaches should be aware of. You'll find honest explorations of the benefits of integrating coaching-oriented techniques into your practice, as well as the potential drawbacks. Throughout, they offer nuanced interpretations of the conflicted feelings many in our field feel toward the growing discipline of coaching.
Ethics
These articles on the ethics of psychotherapy explore the gray areas in which clinical judgement, personal values, and regulatory rules collide. They examine real-world examples offered by therapists as they navigate confidentiality dilemmas, client gifts, unexpected subpoenas, and other ethical sticking points. Get advice on navigating politically charged conversations, requests that push personal boundaries, and prioritizing your own mental health. Learn more about how your colleagues practice ethical decision making in a rapidly evolving world that seems to create quagmires faster than ever.
Growing & Managing Your Practice
These articles offer strategies for building and managing a psychotherapy practice without losing sight of the values-driven mission behind your work. These pieces cover topics ranging from branding and marketing to navigating shifting payment models. You'll find advice from leaders in the field on designing a welcoming office space, navigating changing technology effectively, and making a group-practice work. Learn more about what it takes to build and apply an entrepreneurial mindset in your practice while still honoring the soul of your work.
Supervision
These articles highlight the relationships and structures within supervision that shape therapists long after graduate school ends. They ask difficult questions about whether current supervisory models are doing enough to support supervisees, while also celebrating those mentors whose guidance have permanently shaped other clinicians' practices. You'll find tips on building self-assurance and clinical confidence in your supervisees, as well as how to develop a community of practice. Learn more about properly supporting minoritized supervisees, establishing successful peer-consultation groups, and building clear and lasting relationships with your supervisees.
Therapist Retirement
These articles explore what it entails, practically and emotionally, to say goodbye to a career that centers on helping people and shaping lives, and how that ending reverberates for both clinicians and clients. These pieces include reflections from seasoned therapists preparing to leave the field, as well as first-person accounts from clients learning to face the future after this significant relationship ends. You'll find guidance on communicating plans, tending to your legacy, and crafting retirement as a relational transition rather than an abrupt stop.
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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
When a therapist's husband becomes a life coach, the push-pull widely felt in our field between similar professions gets personal. Read more
The developer of RLT recounts the surprising path he took to write his first bestselling book. Read more
Popular podcast host and author reveals the key she discovered to showing up authentically in the public sphere. Read more
Trauma expert and author offers some key questions she used to bring meaning into branding a practice. Read more
For burnt-out therapists, opening a coaching business in the right way and for the right reasons can be a reinvigorating side-gig. Read more
More and more therapists are using life coaching as a workaround to the challenges of cross-state practice—but doing so can have serious consequences. Read more
Too many minoritized supervisees are leaving the field. How do we hold on to them? Read more
The Millennial therapist who took social media by storm shares what sets her apart from other influencers. Read more
Therapists have multiple options when it comes to saving for retirement. From 401(k)s to IRAs and more, here's how to figure out which plans are best for you. Read more
Few things can spook therapists as much as emails from former clients requesting session notes for a legal proceeding, but handling these requests thoughtfully... Read more
Taxes, bookkeeping, and pretty much anything related to the financial side of your practice can feel complicated. Here are some simple ways to prep for your... Read more
Four therapists share some of the most powerfully healing ways they show clients they care. Read more
Four experienced therapists share supervisor advice on self-disclosure, emotional presence, core beliefs, and managing client anxiety. Read more
Do your therapy clients ask you for advice? We asked 5 top therapists what they do when clients say, “Just tell me what to do!” Read more
You know your clinical expertise is of value to your clients, but it can also be important for judges and juries in court. Read more
Advocates are calling on more therapists to consider how they can help people whose inclinations toward minors most of us find abhorrent. Read more
Join the conversation between two therapists as they discuss the longing for friendship in the therapy room. Read more
How far is friendship from the special type of closeness we call the therapeutic relationship? Read more
An experienced clinician shares how emerging therapists can get started in couples therapy. Read more
The uniqueness of a psychotherapist’s job can make it hard to let go of. Read more
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