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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In these pieces, find reflections and case studies that center on challenges relating to therapeutic boundaries and self-disclosure. Learn more about how to engage with and overcome ethical pitfalls and model healthy relational boundaries for clients.
Career Development
Uncover advice and insights from experienced psychotherapists on how to best build a meaningful and sustainable career, encompassing topics ranging from choosing a specialty to finding the right mentors.
Coaching
Browse articles that explore the intersection of psychotherapy and life coaching, including honest examinations of the potential benefits and drawbacks of integrating coaching-oriented techniques into your practice.
Ethics
Get advice from leaders in the field on how to approach ethical decision making and navigate gray areas in clinical judgement in a rapidly evolving world.
Growing & Managing Your Practice
Explore advice from leaders in the field about what it takes to build your psychotherapy practice with an entrepreneurial mindset while still honoring the soul of your work.
Supervision
Explore articles centered on supervision, from tips for building self-assurance and clinical confidence in your supervisees to discussions on whether the current supervisory models are doing enough to support supervisees.
Therapist Retirement
These pieces offer 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.
The same diagnosis that makes you uniquely attuned to a client may also make you vulnerable to crossing ethical boundaries. Read more
If you're a therapist who works in private practice and you were surprised to owe taxes this year, you're not alone! Here's what happened—and how to avoid... Read more
For Black therapists, can generating passive income and building generational wealth prevent them from burning out in our field? Read more
On the fifth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, couples therapist Bill Doherty reflects on his work with Braver Angels and how more therapists can... Read more
Nine successful therapists reveal their most unconventional steps to branding themselves as mental health influencers. 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
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
Big business and private investment firms have turned their attention to our field, and they’re not above poaching clients, underpaying clinicians, and... Read more
Watch Shadeen Francis and Alexandra Solomon discuss how clinicians can work together to achieve their professional development goals. Read more
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