Editor's Note
Livia Kent
When Therapists Struggle with Suicidality
Releasing Ourselves from Stigma and ShameMany therapists wrestle with the same problems we help our clients tame. But the myth that therapists are masters of their own mental health makes it... Read more
Borrowed Tears
A Therapist Reclaims His Buried Past—and Upends His PracticeWhen a therapist finally confronts his tendency to dissociate, his work takes a life-changing turn. Read more
Recovering from Helper Syndrome
5 Levels of Compassion to Foster Growth as TherapistsIs the problem with compassion fatigue that we get tired of being compassionate toward others—or that we aren’t being compassionate toward ourselves? Read more
Vulnerable Together
Therapists Share Their Own Mental Health StrugglesDespite our best intentions, sometimes our problems grow so big that they slam into our work—and the result can be surprising. Read more
Learning Presence Through Our Work
How Crisis Can Teach Us to Let Go
Talking About the Nightmare
When Our Work as Therapists Heals Us
Confessions of a Racing Mind
My Silent Battle with OCDA clinician with OCD stands up to stigma. Read more
First, Make the Bed
A Gentle Path through DepressionIn the throes of depression, a therapist searches for a magic bullet. Read more
The Ambivalence Trap
Liberating Ourselves from the Pursuit of PerfectionA psychiatrist questions taking her own medicine. Read more
Extra Feature
Love After Lockdown
What Follows Togetherness OverloadFor some couples, staying home together during COVID improved their sex lives. But many have reported the opposite experience. Now that re-entry is here, what... Read more
Departments
Surrogate Partner Therapy
Crossing Lines or Expanding Boundaries?
I’d Rather Clean the Toilet than Write Progress Notes
Making Peace With An Essential Task
Doing Our Own Work Differently
An EMDR Portal to Our Clients’ Healing
Unhealed Bodies
Looking at Ancestral Trauma
The Plasticity of Personality
Can We Switch Our Stripes?