Editor's Note
Livia KentExploring Consensual Nonmonogamy
How to Help Couples Avoid Pitfalls and Enhance Their ConnectionDespite a cultural environment that’s often hostile toward nonmonogamy, an increasing number of couples are considering it. How can therapists help them... Read more
Dating Again in Your 70s
A Couples Therapist Joins Match.comEven when you've spent your entire career teaching people how to have relationships, finding love is still a risky, humbling, and unpredictable... Read more
Honoring the Choice to Be Single
Have We Gotten Past Our Relationship Biases?Americans are choosing to remain single in unprecedented numbers—and contrary to commonly held assumptions in our field, they're not unhappy about it, not... Read more
Rewriting Marriage Contracts
Fresh Options for Ambivalent CouplesThe choice for ambivalent couples is no longer binary: separate or stay together. Instead, therapists can help them craft formal yet flexible agreements... Read more
When One Partner Is Kinky...
Cracking Open the ConversationHaving an erotic craving that seems shocking to a partner doesn’t have to be a death knell for a relationship. Read more
Extra Feature
A Puncturing of the Soul
Facing Racial Trauma and Internalized DevaluationIf clinicians continue to assert that "trauma is trauma," the uniqueness treating racial trauma will remain on the margins of what we extol as best practice. Read more
Departments
Getting Individualized Education Plans Right
How Are IEPs Missing the Mark?Weighing Your Clients’ Needs Against Your Own
The Ethics of Handling Your Personal CrisisA Dog Wanders into My Session
Taking a New Direction in the Therapy RoomEnhancing Meditation with Neurofeedback
Innovations in Training the BrainAttuning to the Human Heart
Barbara Kingsolver’s Novel for the AgesHunting for Harry
Can a Lost Marriage Be Retrieved?Practice Tools: May/June 2023
The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!Practice Tools for the May/June 2023 issue are courtesy of Arielle Schwartz's book, "Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery." Read more