Parent the Child You Have, Not the Child You Were
”I’m going to do the opposite of everything my parents did.” Your childhood memories can have a profound impact on how you interact with... Read more
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
May/June 2023: Rethinking Relationships: A Look at Nonmonogamy, Coparenting, and the Choice to be Single
This issue examines different approaches to intimate relationships, including some perspectives that challenge longstanding principles in our culture and in... 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: May/June 2023
Rethinking Intimate Relationships TodayMy 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
Embodying Emotions
Based on the work of leading trauma experts, we know that difficult emotions, trauma and suffering are stored in the body… What hasn’t been so... Read more
Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox, Volume 2
With virtual therapy becoming ever more ubiquitous, how can you keep young clients engaged while providing them with the effective, evidence-based treatment... 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
Infertility Grief and Trauma
“Do you have kids?” This common intake question is intended to gather information, forge connection, and build context around your clients&rsquo... Read more
Autism Assessment Across the Spectrum: Strategies for Recognizing Functional Differences and Closing the Gender Gap
Current diagnostic criteria for autism continue to be based on how autism looks in boys and men. To make matters worse, it relies almost exclusively on... Read more
MDMA & Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with Michael Mithoefer, MD
Dr. Mithoefer chats about MDMA and psychedelic therapy, their accessibility challenges, as well as what you can expect from his new online course with... Read more
Healing from Affairs: Moving Past the Trauma of Betrayal and Infidelity
In this cutting-edge training, we will discuss the varieties of affairs and the many ways that relationships can heal from the betrayal that affects intimacy... Read more
The Grief Nobody Talks About: Counseling Strategies for Families Facing the Losses of Addiction
It’s a silent grief nobody talks about. Buried in shame, despair and fear; families living with addiction experience deep ambiguous and non-finite grief... Read more
The Grief of Medical Trauma, Injury and Illness: Strategies and Supports for Coping and Adaptation
A line forever between what was and what will be, those impacted by medical trauma and chronic illnesses feel every loss. Struck with a sudden or gradual... Read more
Complicated Spiritual Grief: Assessment and Treatment
Faith, religion, and spirituality can be a supportive and comforting resource following the loss of anyone or anything that leaves a sense of deprivation and... Read more
Mother Loss: Interventions for Clients with Relationships from Unbreakable to Fractured
From clients who’ve lost the biggest source of support in their lives, to those with broken maternal bonding from neglect, abuse, or abandonment, mother... Read more
