Listening to the Next Generation
Are We Hearing What They Have to Say?
November/December 2018
Admitting her bafflement with some of her millennial clients, a veteran therapist accepts her ignorance and gets advice from some of the young people in her life. Here’s how their fresh perspectives energized her practice.
Creating a Web of Connection
Therapists in Search of Community
January/February 2019
Therapists are always on the lookout for new approaches and techniques. But in a profession with alarming rates of burnout and professional isolation, the best way to improve outcomes may be less about what therapists offer clients and more about what they can offer each other.
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Point of View
Theater as Therapy: Can Shakespeare Heal the Trauma of War?
January/February 2019
Stephen Wolfert’s De-Cruit program is giving vets a chance to heal the trauma of war in creative ways.
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Family Matters
The Freedom Machine: Learning to Leave the Nest
January/February 2019
When you’re young, a car isn’t just a car—it can be a freedom machine.
Editor's Note
March/April 2019
For many years after, body therapy remained a semi-underground movement within the field. Now increasing numbers of clinicians are utilizing highly interactive, body-based approaches to help clients locate the somatic sources of their pain as well as discover new pathways to aliveness and joy.
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Character Work
What Therapists Can Learn from Actors
March/April 2019
Therapists can flop in their “performance” with clients, coming off as inauthentic or over the top. One former actor discovers how to embody the kind of “scene partner” his clients need him to be.
Kindling the Spark
The Healing Power of Expressive Arts
March/April 2019
Aliveness is not an experience we think or talk ourselves into; it’s a state of being we feel in our bodies. An expressive arts therapist shows how creativity, movement, and play can help traumatized clients find their way toward vitality and healing.
When Therapy Changes the Therapist
Five Tales of Self-Discovery
May/June 2019
Although it’s not usually acknowledged, change in the consulting room goes both ways. Even as they help clients wrestle with their issues, it’s the rare therapist who hasn’t experienced his or her own eureka moments. Five therapists share their tales of personal transformation.
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Piercing the Illusion of Intimacy
From Symposium Storytelling Evening 2019
May/June 2019
“Whoops,” I said, thinking this was a lighthearted moment. “Looks like you should’ve gone with that other psychologist.” But Ted didn’t joke back.
Family Matters
An Apple Seed and Trained Monkeys: Growing Up Under the Influence of My Big Sister's Imagination
May/June 2019
Whether as playmate, protector, or tormentor, a big sister looms large in the imagination of her younger sibling.
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