Exploring Consensual Nonmonogamy
How to Help Couples Avoid Pitfalls and Enhance Their ConnectionDespite a cultural environment that’s often hostile toward nonmonogamy, an increasing number of couples are considering it. How can therapists help them... Read more
Rethinking Relationships
A Look at Nonmonogamy, Coparenting, and the Choice to be SingleExtra Feature Read more
Getting Individualized Education Plans Right
How Are IEPs Missing the Mark?How can Individualized Education Plans, which often involve therapists, better ensure that students with disabilities get a fair and proper education? Read more
Enhancing Meditation with Neurofeedback
Innovations in Training the BrainHow can neurofeedback help people tailor their meditation practice to help with their mental health concerns? Read more
Attuning to the Human Heart
Barbara Kingsolver’s Novel for the AgesIn Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver expands our moral imagination. Read more
Weighing Your Clients’ Needs Against Your Own
The Ethics of Handling Your Personal CrisisWhat are the ethics of carrying on with your regular practice when dealing with an ongoing personal crisis or medical emergency? Read more
Hunting for Harry
Can a Lost Marriage Be Retrieved?When losing your spouse in a bookstore helps you find perspective. Read more
Editor's Note
Rethinking relationshipsMy editorial Spidey-sense tells me there’s a good chance that some readers will raise an eyebrow—or maybe two—at this issue of the magazine Read more
A Dog Wanders into My Session
Taking a New Direction in the Therapy RoomA seasoned therapist discovers that the willingness to be a beginner again can sometimes have more value for clients than polished expertise. Read more
A Puncturing of the Soul
Facing Racial Trauma and Internalized DevaluationIf clinicians continue to assert that "trauma is trauma," the uniqueness treating racial trauma will remain on the margins of what we extol as best practice. Read more
When One Partner Is Kinky...
Cracking Open the ConversationHaving an erotic craving that seems shocking to a partner doesn’t have to be a death knell for a relationship. Read more
Rewriting Marriage Contracts
Fresh Options for Ambivalent CouplesThe choice for ambivalent couples is no longer binary: separate or stay together. Instead, therapists can help them craft formal yet flexible agreements... Read more
Honoring the Choice to Be Single
Have We Gotten Past Our Relationship Biases?Americans are choosing to remain single in unprecedented numbers—and contrary to commonly held assumptions in our field, they're not unhappy about it, not... Read more
Dating Again in Your 70s
A Couples Therapist Joins Match.comEven when you've spent your entire career teaching people how to have relationships, finding love is still a risky, humbling, and unpredictable... Read more
Mindfulness in Gottman Couples Therapy
Here are some "hacks" to help your clients be more mindful in their relationships—using the Gottman Method. Read more