In AEDP, a healing-oriented therapy that holds undoing aloneness as a sine qua non of trauma work, affirmation is not a mere nicety but a robust experiential... Read more

Sometimes EMDR alone isn’t enough to heal entrenched traumas, particularly when clients struggle with early attachment issues. Attachment-Focused Eye... Read more

Imagine a therapy session where your client brings up an interest in using psychedelics as part of their healing journey; after all, the options are getting... Read more

Working with people in pain has never been easy, but recently, it’s become even more difficult. Between our country’s multiple mental health... Read more

Come experience mindfulness with one of the world’s leading practitioners and learn how to truly implement these practices in your life to improve your... Read more

The stories people tell themselves—and their therapists—are powerful. They can keep clients stuck, but they can also galvanize change. Although our... Read more

Are we born with a certain temperament? Can it be changed? How does personality shape our lives? Recent research has revealed an exciting new view of the ways... Read more

Seeing clients in multiple states and across state lines, either physically or via telehealth, is becoming more common and has the potential to dramatically... Read more

Many adult clients entering therapy don’t know they’re autistic, and often neither do their therapists. After all, they may have become experts at... Read more

How to treat people with narcissism, and even whether you can make meaningful progress, is one of the hottest and most misunderstood topics in the field today... Read more

Born in Vietnam, forcibly displaced as a child to Australia, and now living in rural Alaska, Linda Thai has dedicated her life to unraveling the mysteries of... Read more

Today’s adolescents and teens barely drink or smoke, get into fewer fights, and have less sex. By many measures, they’re healthier and safer than... Read more

It’s unfortunate, but severely mentally ill clients are the ones we frequently feel least able to help. Instead, they often find themselves marginalized... Read more

As children, many of our adult clients experienced abuses they were helpless to escape or prevent. Perhaps it wasn’t safe for them to cry, look... Read more

Deep down, the majority of successful people spend a good amount of time questioning their professional legitimacy. The result can be debilitating self-doubt... Read more

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a compassionate, nonpathologizing, evidence-based approach to helping clients change entrenched patterns of thinking and... Read more

More so than ever, being trauma-informed means understanding the ways that neuroplasticity allows clients to flourish after traumatic experiences. If we can... Read more

Many clients find themselves stuck in a loop of repeatedly being pulled back into trauma reenactments, despite their best efforts to heal. In this workshop... Read more

Our nation is more divided now than at any time since the Civil War. Polarization enters the therapy room through emotional triggers, relationship distress... Read more

Many cross-racial interactions, inside and outside the therapy room, lead to reactivity and defensiveness that manifest in a number of ways, such as... Read more

Healing from sexual trauma can be a complex journey involving struggles with anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and other mental health and behavioral... Read more

These days, if the modern human mind could have a personal translator, PR agent, and cheerleader, that person would be Dan Siegel. Beyond his impressive... Read more

Like it or not, confrontation is a necessary part of all therapy. Maybe your client comes into therapy with grand pronouncements: “I’m all... Read more

In today’s fast-paced world, the rise in screen time and structured activities is dramatically reducing opportunities for imaginative and physical... Read more

What if you could give clients immobilized by trauma fast relief, without having to worry about retraumatizing them by rehashing what happened to them... Read more

Psychologist Jean Twenge is one of the foremost researchers exploring the lives of kids and teens today. Her up-to-the-minute studies tying the rise of mental... Read more

For clients who’ve long struggled with major depression, looking at their diagnosis through the lens of hypo-arousal provides a framework for... Read more

Your clients have spent years besieged by death, loss and uncertainty. For many there will be no “return to normal” – driving more grieving... Read more

Working with highly escalated couples and families can be scary and exhausting. Often, our best attempts at creating positive change fall flat. Sometimes, us... Read more

When it comes to working with male clients, what strategies and practices work best? How do you work with a man who’s stuck in his head, constantly... Read more