Dating Apps & the Intimacy Crisis

Unexpected Approaches to Our Newest Relational Challenges
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Editor's Note

Livia Kent

No one knows better than therapists that intimacy is a fundamental human need. In this issue, we... Read more

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Table of Contents

Intimacy as the Antidote to Autocracy

Dismantling Dominance, One Couple at a Time

As a field, in our efforts to be neutral and nurturing, have we been unwittingly recreating the culture’s individualistic bias? Read more

"Would You Swipe on Me?"

Dating Apps & Therapy in the Age of Digital Intimacy

If therapists can become culturally competent in the world of dating apps, exploring our clients’ profiles is an opportunity to deepen therapy. Read more

The Orna Guralnik Effect

Uncovering the Mystery of a Reluctant Star

The reason people find Orna Guralnik so compelling isn’t the stylish clothes she wears, her trendy office décor, or fancy camera work. It’s something else... Read more

Friendship Therapy

Your New Clinical Specialty

Embracing friendship therapy as fully as we do couples or family therapy might help us shift friendship to its rightful place of clinical importance. Read more

Yung Pueblo Changes Our Minds

The Millennial Poet Laureate of Relationships

Poet Yung Pueblo helps us inspire relational change in our clients and ourselves. Read more

Dating in the Age of Algorithms

How Does Physical Chemistry Factor into Digital Dating?

Billions of daily swipes on dating apps yield an average match rate of less than 2 percent. What does this say about the role of physical chemistry in love? Read more

Facing the Challenges of Platonic Love

What Therapists Should Stop Ignoring about Friendship

To shift friendship to its rightful place of importance in our lives, the conventional friendship script needs a dramatic rewrite. Read more

Turning Your Session Notes into Meaningful Art

Poetry as a Portal to a New Relationship

Poetry has the power to move clients and therapists from cognition to resonance—and support rapid transformation. Read more

Extra Feature

Baseline Suicidality in Neurodivergent Kids

Misunderstanding Sensory and Emotional Chaos

In misdiagnosed neurodivergent teens, suicidality may not be an indicator of a desire to die but of misunderstood sensory and emotional chaos. Read more

Departments

6 Therapy Trends to Watch in 2026

Taking on the Burnout Epidemic, The Sex Recession, AI as a "Co-Therapist," and More

You're Attracted to Your Client?!

5 Clinicians Offer Guidance on a Dreaded Ethical Dilemma

The Case of the Lost Self

Two Takes on Reparenting an Inner Child

How “Therapy Speak” Can Wreck Relationships

What Therapists Need to Know about Clinical Jargon Gone Awry

6 Polyvagal Pathways to Foster Trust

How to Harness Your Social Engagement System

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