VIDEO: When Our Clients Help Us Overcome Our Greatest Fears
A Therapist Shares Her Most Memorable Clinical ExperienceLynn Lyons shares a moving, often hilarious, story about how her young client helped her become a stronger person and a better therapist. Read more
My Clients Are Asking Personal Questions
Five Clinicians Give Their TakeA therapist works from his home office, which means clients sometimes observe elements of his personal life. He's had clients ask about his electric car... Read more
Kindling the Spark
The Healing Power of Expressive ArtsAliveness 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... Read more
ACEs and a New Vision for Healthcare
Bringing Therapists and Physicians TogetherWhen it comes to addressing the profound impact of trauma, pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris is calling for primary care physicians and therapists to develop... Read more
The Shopping Trip
Showing Up Is Its Own RewardSometimes you learn your most important life lessons from the person who most frustrates and disappoints you. Read more
Storm Damage
Angry Words Can Sink a RelationshipEven though partners may forgive each other after a heated argument, the hurtful words that were hurled can be haunting nonetheless. Read more
ASMR Videos
A New Tool for Therapists?Videos designed to elicit ASMR, a physiological state some people find soothing, get millions of views online. Now clinicians are debating whether they could... Read more
Welcome to Holland
When Life Takes a DetourWhat do you do when your life’s expectations get turned upside down? Read more
An Interview with Peter Levine
Turning Psychotherapy Bottom UpPeter Levine, developer of Somatic Experiencing, takes us inside his seemingly intuitive approach and reveals the guiding principles that inform his work. Read more
The Touch Taboo
Are We Missing a Vital Source of Healing?Polyvagal Theory offers a new kind of somatic road map for guiding both therapists and clients toward safety and connection. It can also empower therapists to... Read more
Dying Well
Humanizing Our Overmedicalized SystemHospital protocols have replaced the time-honored customs that once enabled the dying to be lead actors in their life’s final drama. Why do we spend so much... Read more
Character Work
What Therapists Can Learn from ActorsTherapists 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... Read more
Tips for a Sedentary Profession
Sitting Up!Therapists spend much of the day sitting in a chair. But most don’t consider how the way they sit affects the therapy experience for both them and their... Read more