Online couples therapy can be tough, especially with a high-stakes case. The developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy dives into the deep end with a couple living in the Arctic.

The pandemic has showed us just how much our clients need us—and how much we need to tend to ourselves. For some therapists, this has meant reimagining their entire practice.

How do you work with a client who intentionally tries to break every rule of therapy, spoken and implicit?

Knowing your financial worth as a therapist can model self-care and self-respect for clients.

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Psychologist Ali Mattu is on a mission to bring therapeutic principles to the mainstream.

Learning to surf requires awareness, focus, and flexibility—perhaps the most essential qualities for navigating the complexities of life. For some young clients, the ocean is proving to be a powerful co-therapist.

In working with an Indigenous community, a therapist learns the importance of walking with his clients, not out in front of them.

Just like families, coworkers often need help talking honestly and listening deeply, especially when it comes to issues around diversity, equity, and inclusion. How can therapists help?

In the therapy field, especially, we tend to view self-deception as a path to any number of bad ends, like a sense of failure when reality collides with fantasy, or making ill-begotten choices. Of course, illusions do carry these hazards, and plenty of others! But as science journalist Shankar Vedantam argues in our lead piece, perhaps we need to widen our lens beyond what’s true or not, and ask what function an illusion is serving. What are the consequences? Might there be occasions when the benefits justify the costs?