Editor's Note
Livia Kent
The Long, Lonely Trek to Licensure
Is Becoming a Therapist Harder than Ever?Many beginning therapists are burning out and leaving the field before they’re able to gain their professional footing. How can we support them better? Read more
Am I A Good Therapist Yet?
Reconciling Professional Ideals with RealityLofty visions of our capabilities as therapists can fuel us early in our careers, but at some point, we have to reckon with the reality that we can’t help... Read more
Love Letters to The Field
Supporting Our Big, Hairy, Audacious DreamsBy cultivating professional relationships across differences in ages and clinical experience, we keep each other’s big dreams alive, bridge knowledge gaps... Read more
Finding Your Way As a New Clinician
Three Tips to Guide Your First SessionAfter 34 years in practice, a therapist offers advice on what to remember before seeing your first client. Read more
What Do Therapists Know?
Learning and Growing Alongside Our ClientsAs therapists, we get to explore the mysteries of being human for a living—and to apply what we learn to our own lives. How amazing is that? Read more
Gifts of the Emerging Therapist
Tapping into the Power of Starting OutClinical experience is invaluable, but there are many unsung advantages to seeing therapists who are just starting out. Read more
An out-of-the-box idea from two enterprising college students reignites the passion of a former supervisor. Read more
Action Man Meets Therapy Guy
Switching Careers in MidlifeWhen a journalist and rock climber decides to become a therapist, he embarks on a new understanding of himself. Read more
Extra Features
Reclaiming Black Imagination
The PRIDE Approach to HealingA new approach embraces the somatic wisdom and indigenous knowledge of BIPOC clients. Read more
When a Tornado Ripped Through My Therapy Room
How My Client and I Survived DisasterA therapist and client face unexpected dangers that reveal new facets of their humanity and vulnerability. Read more
Departments
Let's Talk About Death—and Pass the Cookies
How Death Cafés Can Enrich Our Lives
Rethinking Codependence
An Attachment-Based Framework for Caregivers
Spiritual Issues in Secular Treatment
When a Client Wants to Reconnect with Their Faith
Babette Rothschild on What’s Missing in Trauma Work
Choosing the Tools that Fit Your Client
The Heart of Gladness
Why Joy and Sorrow Need Each Other
The Anxious Warrior
Fighting Fear with Krav Maga
Practice Tools: November/December 2023
The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!This month’s selection is from Alexandra Solomon’s, Love Every Day: 365 Relationship Self-Awareness Practices to Help Your Relationship Heal, Grow and... Read more