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Video February 27, 2014

VIDEO: What Does a Client Really Want from Therapy?

Stephen Gilligan on the First Step Toward a Creative Breakthrough

In this clip Stephen Gilligan talks about one of the techniques he employs to help new clients be more specific in setting their therapy goals. Read more

Video February 26, 2014

VIDEO: The Inevitability of Challenging Clients

Janina Fisher on Seeing the Cracks in the Foundation

In this clip Janina Fisher talks about how years of experience do not guarantee easy clients and how she reacts when faced with a challenging case. Read more

Article February 24, 2014

Understanding Somatic Experience: Working With the Body to Heal the Mind

How Can Therapists Overcome Fears About the Body with Clients Who Struggle to Heal from Painful Somatic Experiences?

It’s the very fact that both emotion and reasoning ability are held hostage by their body’s continuing physical reaction to trauma that makes healing so... Read more

Video February 20, 2014

When Depressed Clients Blame Themselves

Elisha Goldstein on Treating Depression with Self-Compassion

To help depressed clients figure out what they need to heal, mindfulness specialist Elisha Goldstein has developed several effective self-compassion practices... Read more

Video February 19, 2014

VIDEO: In Search of the Therapeutic Breakthrough

Bruce Ecker on Finding the Underlying Reasons for Detrimental Behaviors

Watch this clip to hear Bruce talk about a client unwilling to leave an abusive situation and the approach he uses to uncover the underlying reasons why. Read more

Article February 17, 2014

When Treating Some Forms of Anxiety, Reenacting a Traumatic Memory May Be the Key Read more

Article February 13, 2014

The ACE Studies: Calculating the Effects of Child Abuse

How the Effects of Child Abuse Have Become the Biggest Public Health Issue in America

Since the publication of DSM-IV in 1994, a massive body of neurobiological research has accumulated, revealing how protracted childhood abuse and neglect can... Read more

Video February 12, 2014

VIDEO: Using Corrective Experiences in Attachment-Based Therapy

Diane Poole Heller on Bringing the Concrete to the Abstract

Diane Poole Heller talks about one of her therapy techniques: Corrective experiences. Read more

Video February 10, 2014

VIDEO: When "One-Size-Fits-All" Doesn't Measure Up

Courtney Armstrong on Creatively Connecting

Courtney Armstrong discusses how she connected with some clients who weren't interested in traditional therapy approaches. Read more

Video February 5, 2014

The Therapist as Improv Actor?

Ann Randolph on Using Acting to Access Emotions

Ann Randolph talks about one acting technique in particular that can easily be incorporated into therapy sessions to help clients express their emotions. Read more

Video February 3, 2014

What Type of Depression is It?

Margaret Wehrenberg on Working with Low-Energy Depressed Clients

Margaret Wehrenberg identified specific types of anxious/depressed clients and has honed different treatment techniques that are effective. Read more

Article January 30, 2014

Adult Attachment Disorder: 3 Detours to the Right Hemisphere

For Clients with Adult Attachment Disorder, Use the Left Hemisphere to Guide You to the Right

"People with avoidant attachment histories are too closed down to have access to experience their right-hemisphere processes," says Daniel Siegel, who's... Read more

Video January 28, 2014

What’s happening when a client suffering from symptoms of depression is willing to follow the therapist’s voice with eyes closed? According to Zindal Segal... Read more

Video January 27, 2014

Practicing Meditation Against All Odds

Zindel Segal on the Three-Minute Breathing Space

Zin Segal discusses how clients can achieve mindful awareness of their emotional states in just three minutes. Read more

Article January 23, 2014

When Couples Therapy Causes Emotional Pain

Coming to Terms with Inflicting Emotional Pain in Order to Provide Good Couples Therapy
Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson

We don’t become therapists to inflict emotional pain, but eventually we learn that sadness, anger, shock, and disillusionment can be part and parcel of... Read more

Video January 22, 2014

Understanding Trauma and the Cycle of Growth

Mary Jo Barrett on Discovering How Clients Learn

Mary Jo talks about the first stage of trauma treatment, where she teaches clients about the natural cycle of growth in order to discover how they prefer to... Read more

Video January 20, 2014

Are Antidepressants the Answer?

Michael Yapko on the Safety and Effectiveness of Antidepressants

Michael Yapko lays out a variety of reasons why antidepressants are not the solution for every client suffering from depression. Read more

Article January 16, 2014

The Ethics Gray Zone: Is it an Ethical Violation or Not?

When Unique Issues Arise, Therapist Need to Determine Whether or Not it’s a Potential Ethical Violation

Sometimes ethical violations we face with our clients become so subtle and complex that we risk alienating clients when we’re trying our best to protect them. Read more

Video January 15, 2014

How To Follow Clients’ Subtle Clues To Deep Healing Places

Diana Fosha Shares an Example from Her Own Work

Diana Fosha uses an example from her own practice of how therapists can begin to catch incongruity Read more

Video January 13, 2014

Does Your Depressed Client Even Want to Change?

David Burns on Using Paradoxical Agenda Setting

David Burns talks about how to set an agenda for therapy. Read more

Article January 9, 2014

The Mindful Body: Communicating With the Body in Therapy

How a Transition to Mindful Body-Focused Therapy Enriched a Formerly Talk-Only Practice

It’s an article of faith among many somatically-oriented practitioners that the body knows more, knows it more directly, and expresses it more honestly than... Read more

Article January 8, 2014

The Next Big Step

What’s Ahead in Psychotherapy’s Fascination with Brain Science?

Labeling behavior in fancy neurophysiological terms can make what we do sound more scientifically rigorous than the notoriously fuzzy language of... Read more

Article January 8, 2014

The Great Deception

We’re Less in Control Than We Think

Most of us put much too much faith in the power of our conscious minds to bring about lasting change. Instead of looking up the higher branches of... Read more

Article January 8, 2014

Beyond Phrenology

Let’s Look at How the Brain Really Works

If therapists are going to bring genuine insights—not just soundbites—from neuroscience into the practice of therapy, they need the nuanced, sophisticated... Read more

Article January 8, 2014

What Is This Thing Called Love?

A Whole New Way of Looking at It

More than any other positive emotion, love resides within connections. It extends beyond personal boundaries to characterize the vibe that pulsates between and... Read more

Article January 8, 2014

Psychotherapy and the Affordable Care Act

Ecstasy in the Consulting Room
Tori Rodriguez and Kathleen Smith

Throughout the fall, news about the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA), designed to extend healthcare coverage to millions of the country’s currently... Read more

Article January 8, 2014

How Food Improves Mood

Bringing Nutrition into the Consulting Room

Learning even a little about nutrition and diet can greatly enhance therapists’ ability to help clients with mood problems. Read more

Article January 8, 2014

Rewriting the Story

Entering the World of the Abused Child

Therapists must offer abused children a different felt experience of who they are. Read more

Article January 8, 2014

Emotional First Aid

Looking Beyond the DSM

In Emotional First Aid, Manhattan psychologist Guy Winch provides an instructional manual for handling the bumps and bruises of life. Read more

Article January 8, 2014

Sizing Up Goliath

The Upside of Being Underestimated

With his enormous success, Malcolm Gladwell has morphed from a darling underdog to a publishing juggernaut at whom it’s now trendy to sling insults. Read more

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