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Trauma and AuDHD in Women
Exploring a Neurotype at War with ItselfAuDHD is a neurotype clinicians routinely miss, misdiagnose, and misunderstand. Read more
Autistic Wiring and the Truths We Avoid
The Beauty of Missing a Filter in Therapeutic WorkAutistic clinicians can offer clients the benefit of high pattern recognition and a “missing filter.” Read more
When Couples Get Stuck
How Negative Cycles Block ConnectionFor couples who keep having the same fight, the problem is rarely how much they love each other. Read more
Does the Body Really Keep Score?
One of Trauma's Most Contentious Debates Has ReturnedA controversial paper has reignited debate around one of trauma’s most divisive questions: does the body really keep the score? Read more
The Client in Chronic Pain
Two Takes on Trust, the Body, and Cultural TraumaWhere do you begin work with a therapy skeptic who doesn’t see a connection between her physical pain and her emotional life? Read more
Is Your Job Hijacking Your Life?
What Therapists Get Wrong About BurnoutPsychologist Guy Winch talks about what his research says can prevent burnout. Spoiler alert: it’s not taking a vacation. Read more
Therapists on 4 Unexpectedly Therapeutic Films
Lights, Camera, Insight!From Hacks’ seductive trauma bond to Backrooms’ monster of self-betrayal, four therapists find clinical value on the big screen. Read more
The AuDHD Paradox
Untangling a Complicated and Misunderstood NeurotypeHow do therapists help clients whose nervous systems are caught between two contradictory sets of needs? Read more
I’ll Be Perfect—or Else
A Therapist Helps a Client Step Away from the EdgeA story about incalculable power of therapeutic presence. Read more
The Polyvagal Standoff
An Insider on What the Current Debate Means for Your PracticeA 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
6 Truths of Couples Therapy
A Therapist’s Insights from 25 Years in PracticeSix truths about couples therapy every new clinician should know. Read more
Understanding Estrangement through the IPNB Lens
What Therapists Can Offer Adult Children and ParentsWhen 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
What Actually Works in Suicide Prevention
Reclaiming the Essential Skills We’ve ForgottenWhen 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
What Doesn’t Work in Suicide Prevention
Three Common Practices to AvoidIs standard care for suicidal clients—predictive risk assessment, no-suicide contracts, and reflexive hospitalization—doing more harm than good? Read more
Rethinking Suicide Prevention
Confronting an Unspoken Hazard of Our WorkIn this first installment of a series, psychologist Sally Spencer-Thomas examines psychotherapy's current approach to suicide prevention. Read more
PDA Men and the Women Who Love Them
The Impossible Art of Navigating the Nervous System that BlamesKory Andreas explores how PDA-driven dysregulation can turn love into blame, and why partners can't fix what isn't theirs. Read more
Bringing Dreamwork into Clinical Practice
A Jungian Framework for Listening to the UnconsciousEvery night, your clients receive a report from their unconscious. Here's how to help them make sense of it. Read more
A Crisis of Parts
What IFS Can Teach Us About Burnout and Self-CareWhat if therapist burnout isn't just about self-care, but about a crisis of parts? Read more
The Very Human Therapist
Editor's Note: July/August 2026The 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
From Wounded Healer to Integrated Therapist
Evolving Toward a Differentiated SelfA wounded healer’s gift is being deeply attuned to clients. Their challenge is staying grounded in a strong sense of self. Read more
Closing the Gap Between Authenticity & Technique
The Most Effective Skill You Were Never Taught as a TherapistMost 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 Self of the Therapist
Learning to Be in Relationship with Our IssuesThe wounds we work hardest to put behind us may be our most powerful clinical tools, if we’re willing to face them. Read more
The Courage to Confront
On Culture, Relational Recovery & Speaking Truth to PowerHow do you speak truth to power in a therapy session when your history has taught you to either fight or go silent? Read more
The Fiction of the Self
The Paradox of Mindfulness in Clinical PracticeWhat if our therapeutic goals of building self-esteem and developing a coherent self are symptoms of delusion? Read more
Three Ways the Therapist's Self Shapes Therapy
Using Our Selves as Instruments to Catalyze ChangeHow much of what happens in therapy with our clients is shaped not by what we do, but who we are? Read more
A Therapist's Most Important Tool
Salvador Minuchin on What Today's Trainings Are MissingLong before “self of the therapist” was a clinical concept, the father of structural family therapy was teaching it by example. Read more
When Countertransference Hits Too Close
The Thin Line Between Empathy & ProjectionWhen a client’s story mirrors yours, the line between empathy and a clinical misstep can be thin and tricky. Read more
The Neuroscience of Empathy
How Somatic Resonance Shapes the Therapeutic RelationshipRecognizing the uncanny ways empathy arises in the body can shift how you deepen attunement with clients. Read more
Where You End & The Client Begins
Using Your Issues in Clinical Work Without Making It About YouWhat does it take to help clients untangle relational patterns that have long complicated your own relationships? Read more
Borderline Personality Disorder, Revisited
Why Everything You've Heard about BPD is Probably WrongFew diagnoses intimidate therapists more than BPD. The reality is far less frightening. Read more