A shared cultural understanding can be a powerful asset in therapy, adding a familiarity and depth to the exploration of countertransference.

Lessons for a parent in fear and safety.

If ever there was a moment to talk with children about racism and antiracism, it’s now. But how, exactly?

The key to working with a family may be getting parents to see the intergenerational trauma underlying present-day issues.

The pandemic has created an emotional petri dish for kids and parents who are stuck in place, terribly stressed, and feeling alone. How are families supposed to survive—much less thrive—under these unprecedented, pressure-cooker conditions?

Although it’s never been easy to take oh-so-familiar systems principles and put them to work in real life, the devastating sweep of the pandemic has made collaboration between schools and therapists more important than ever.

Our current caregiving crisis is a societal failure, not the result of one family’s shortcomings.

Building a relationship with heavily armored, developmentally regressed, profoundly sad adolescents is no small feat. They don’t exactly let you in the front door.

Supporting transgender children doesn’t always mean rushing toward medical intervention.

When our kids no longer need us to be problem solvers, what do we become?