VIDEO: The Inevitability of Challenging Clients
Janina Fisher on Seeing the Cracks in the FoundationIn this clip Janina Fisher talks about how years of experience do not guarantee easy clients and how she reacts when faced with a challenging case. Read more
Understanding Somatic Experience: Working With the Body to Heal the Mind
How Can Therapists Overcome Fears About the Body with Clients Who Struggle to Heal from Painful Somatic Experiences?It’s the very fact that both emotion and reasoning ability are held hostage by their body’s continuing physical reaction to trauma that makes healing so... Read more
When Depressed Clients Blame Themselves
Elisha Goldstein on Treating Depression with Self-CompassionTo help depressed clients figure out what they need to heal, mindfulness specialist Elisha Goldstein has developed several effective self-compassion practices... Read more
VIDEO: In Search of the Therapeutic Breakthrough
Bruce Ecker on Finding the Underlying Reasons for Detrimental BehaviorsWatch this clip to hear Bruce talk about a client unwilling to leave an abusive situation and the approach he uses to uncover the underlying reasons why. Read more
How a Traumatic Memory Can Feed Anxiety
When Treating Some Forms of Anxiety, Reenacting a Traumatic Memory May Be the Key Read more
The ACE Studies: Calculating the Effects of Child Abuse
How the Effects of Child Abuse Have Become the Biggest Public Health Issue in AmericaSince the publication of DSM-IV in 1994, a massive body of neurobiological research has accumulated, revealing how protracted childhood abuse and neglect can... Read more
VIDEO: Using Corrective Experiences in Attachment-Based Therapy
Diane Poole Heller on Bringing the Concrete to the AbstractDiane Poole Heller talks about one of her therapy techniques: Corrective experiences. Read more
VIDEO: When "One-Size-Fits-All" Doesn't Measure Up
Courtney Armstrong on Creatively ConnectingCourtney Armstrong discusses how she connected with some clients who weren't interested in traditional therapy approaches. Read more
The Therapist as Improv Actor?
Ann Randolph on Using Acting to Access EmotionsAnn Randolph talks about one acting technique in particular that can easily be incorporated into therapy sessions to help clients express their emotions. Read more
What Type of Depression is It?
Margaret Wehrenberg on Working with Low-Energy Depressed ClientsMargaret Wehrenberg identified specific types of anxious/depressed clients and has honed different treatment techniques that are effective. Read more
Adult Attachment Disorder: 3 Detours to the Right Hemisphere
For Clients with Adult Attachment Disorder, Use the Left Hemisphere to Guide You to the Right"People with avoidant attachment histories are too closed down to have access to experience their right-hemisphere processes," says Daniel Siegel, who's... Read more
VIDEO: How Simple Mindfulness-Based Techniques Can Pave The Way Out Of Depression
What’s happening when a client suffering from symptoms of depression is willing to follow the therapist’s voice with eyes closed? According to Zindal... Read more
Practicing Meditation Against All Odds
Zindel Segal on the Three-Minute Breathing SpaceZin Segal discusses how clients can achieve mindful awareness of their emotional states in just three minutes. Read more
When Couples Therapy Causes Emotional Pain
Coming to Terms with Inflicting Emotional Pain in Order to Provide Good Couples TherapyWe don’t become therapists to inflict emotional pain, but eventually we learn that sadness, anger, shock, and disillusionment can be part and parcel of... Read more
Understanding Trauma and the Cycle of Growth
Mary Jo Barrett on Discovering How Clients LearnMary Jo talks about the first stage of trauma treatment, where she teaches clients about the natural cycle of growth in order to discover how they prefer to... Read more
Are Antidepressants the Answer?
Michael Yapko on the Safety and Effectiveness of AntidepressantsMichael Yapko lays out a variety of reasons why antidepressants are not the solution for every client suffering from depression. Read more
The Ethics Gray Zone: Is it an Ethical Violation or Not?
When Unique Issues Arise, Therapist Need to Determine Whether or Not it’s a Potential Ethical ViolationSometimes ethical violations we face with our clients become so subtle and complex that we risk alienating clients when we’re trying our best to protect them. Read more
How To Follow Clients’ Subtle Clues To Deep Healing Places
Diana Fosha Shares an Example from Her Own WorkDiana Fosha uses an example from her own practice of how therapists can begin to catch incongruity Read more
Does Your Depressed Client Even Want to Change?
David Burns on Using Paradoxical Agenda SettingDavid Burns talks about how to set an agenda for therapy. Read more
The Mindful Body: Communicating With the Body in Therapy
How a Transition to Mindful Body-Focused Therapy Enriched a Formerly Talk-Only PracticeIt’s an article of faith among many somatically-oriented practitioners that the body knows more, knows it more directly, and expresses it more honestly than... Read more
Psychotherapy and the Affordable Care Act
Ecstasy in the Consulting RoomThroughout the fall, news about the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA), designed to extend healthcare coverage to millions of the country’s currently... Read more