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AuDHD is a neurotype clinicians routinely miss, misdiagnose, and misunderstand. Read more

Autistic clinicians can offer clients the benefit of high pattern recognition and a “missing filter.” Read more

For couples who keep having the same fight, the problem is rarely how much they love each other. Read more

A controversial paper has reignited debate around one of trauma’s most divisive questions: does the body really keep the score? Read more

Where do you begin work with a therapy skeptic who doesn’t see a connection between her physical pain and her emotional life? Read more

Psychologist Guy Winch talks about what his research says can prevent burnout. Spoiler alert: it’s not taking a vacation. Read more

From Hacks’ seductive trauma bond to Backrooms’ monster of self-betrayal, four therapists find clinical value on the big screen. Read more

How do therapists help clients whose nervous systems are caught between two contradictory sets of needs? Read more

A story about incalculable power of therapeutic presence. Read more

A new paper signed by 39 experts is calling Polyvagal theory into question—here's the breakdown on what's really at stake and what it means for your practice. Read more

Six truths about couples therapy every new clinician should know. Read more

When I was in my mid-30s, I disconnected from my parents completely. The decision wasn’t impulsive, influenced, or something I arrived at without enormous... Read more

When a client is suicidal, fear can push us toward control. Here's what the evidence says about keeping suicidal clients connected to life Read more

Is standard care for suicidal clients—predictive risk assessment, no-suicide contracts, and reflexive hospitalization—doing more harm than good? Read more

In this first installment of a series, psychologist Sally Spencer-Thomas examines psychotherapy's current approach to suicide prevention. Read more

Kory Andreas explores how PDA-driven dysregulation can turn love into blame, and why partners can't fix what isn't theirs. Read more

Every night, your clients receive a report from their unconscious. Here's how to help them make sense of it. Read more

What if therapist burnout isn't just about self-care, but about a crisis of parts? Read more

The stories in this issue are personal, practical, and all about how the humbling, never-ending work of knowing ourselves affects our clinical practice. Read more

A wounded healer’s gift is being deeply attuned to clients. Their challenge is staying grounded in a strong sense of self. Read more

Most therapists lean toward either clinical technique or relational warmth—but the most effective work requires both. How do you achieve that balance? Read more

The wounds we work hardest to put behind us may be our most powerful clinical tools, if we’re willing to face them. Read more

How do you speak truth to power in a therapy session when your history has taught you to either fight or go silent? Read more

What if our therapeutic goals of building self-esteem and developing a coherent self are symptoms of delusion? Read more

How much of what happens in therapy with our clients is shaped not by what we do, but who we are? Read more

Long before “self of the therapist” was a clinical concept, the father of structural family therapy was teaching it by example. Read more

When a client’s story mirrors yours, the line between empathy and a clinical misstep can be thin and tricky. Read more

Recognizing the uncanny ways empathy arises in the body can shift how you deepen attunement with clients. Read more

What does it take to help clients untangle relational patterns that have long complicated your own relationships? Read more

Few diagnoses intimidate therapists more than BPD. The reality is far less frightening. Read more