From its beginnings, therapy has consisted primarily of talk, evolving from slow and ruminative to faster-paced and therapist-directed. Discover the new movement away from talk, toward silence in the consulting room.
According to the standard wisdom, the greatest therapists—the “supershrinks”—are born not made. Discover how you can defy this axiom by learning some simple techniques that will improve your practice and outcomes.
Ongoing bitter debates about immigration reveal that, even in our “enlightened” society, ethnic and national divisions can still evoke the raw and malign power of nativism. This course will guide you through a addressing these complex problems.
Working with teens has always been a challenge, especially since most of them would rather be doing anything else but therapy. Luckily, this course provides you with a step-by-step guide for getting through to them and establishing healing relationships.
For decades, therapists have sought to help their clients change—their relationships, their careers, their personalities. This course explains why many practitioners actually want to help their clients accept their current reality and how to do it.
The devastating world of war-related trauma afflicts whole populations of people. Learn practical techniques to help your clients adjust to life after war.
We can probably all think of at least one clinical role model or leading figure in the field who shaped our vision of the kind of therapist we wanted to be when we “grew up.” Learn about the "Top Ten" therapists of the last 25 years and what they offered our field.
If most individual's problems are complex and difficult, what can be said about treating the average couple? Yet, in the past 25 years, couples therapy experts have developed successful techniques to work through relationship issues and foster greater intimacy.
Psychotherapy is being transformed by the unprecedented convergence of new scientific findings and ancient healing traditions. Discover the practical applications of these new and old techniques in this course.
At its best, therapy is a deeply creative art, rooted in the healing quality of imagination, hope, risk, and wonder. Discover how to bring this creativity and originality into your practice right away.