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.
Soul-Care for Therapist Entrepreneurs
A Powerful Alternative to Chasing Money on the Job
Becoming a sport psychologist requires throwing away much of the rule book for starting a more traditional practice. Read more
Discover the key to becoming less of a creature of habit. Read more
What do the rules of comedy have to do with the practice of psychotherapy? More than you think. Read more
Some tips on the do’s and don’ts of giving a good workshop. Read more
To stay relevant in a changing world, we need to address the engagement styles of today’s prospective clients. Read more
Earlier this year, therapist Michele Weiner-Davis spent hours in front of a camera, her husband patiently hitting the record button as she rehearsed for what... Read more
Move Beyond the Fee-for-Service Therapy Model by Offering Other Types of Psychotherapy Products Read more
How do the supershrinks do what they do? Are they made or born? Is it a matter of temperament or training? Have they discovered a secret unknown to other... Read more
Genuine learning is conveyed via experience; something happening that resonates emotionally as well as intellectually, something that literally alters the... Read more
Therapist and business coach Lynn Grodzki provides an eye-opening road-map to both the shift in clients’ attitude and how we as therapists can most... Read more
This year, 3,000 practitioners came to our annual Symposium to explore the fundamental question: are we any closer to unraveling the mysteries of psychotherapy... Read more
We all have stories about the bureaucracies that stifle clinical creativity and seem to exist primarily to generate meaningless paperwork. Here’s a tale... Read more
Emerging from their monastic little cells, 3,000 psychotherapists had a schmooze-fest celebrating the power of face-to-face connection and joined forces to... Read more
A private practice therapist recalls his college days as a basketball player in a way he never dreamed of. Read more
Beset by chronic budgetary constraints, invasive regulations, and insufficient respect from society at large, community mental health today seems a Sisyphean... Read more
How to move from the first phone call to booking an appointment Read more
Few people today are willing to accept a bad relationship, yet many settle for jobs that don't bring out the best in them. Some practical ideas for helping... Read more
From the May/June 1994 issue ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, I READ NICK CUMMINGS’S presidential address to the American Psychological Association in which he... Read more
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