Anxiety and Stress in the Digital Era: Understanding Mental Health and Screen-time
67% of your clients are compulsively checking their smartphones for alerts, calls, and texts—even without getting a notification. Our clients are in... Read more
Helping Couples on the Brink
How Validating Ambivalence Can Foster HopeHow can we meet last-chance couples exactly where they are? Read more
Supporting Women's Voices
Carol Gilligan on Today's PatriarchyMore than 50 years after feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan's pivotal study on how women think about the choices in their lives, she speaks up about our... Read more
Taking the Podium
The Growing Influence of Women in PsychotherapyDespite an increasing diversity in race and ethnicity, the psychotherapy field is primarily filled with women—a reversal that's taken place over the last 50... Read more
Fair Play at Home
Are Women Still Carrying the Heavier Load?Eve Rodsky is on a mission: to rebalance the "mental load" that many women still unfairly shoulder in domestic life, affecting their physical health... Read more
‘Implicit relational knowing’, ‘engagement and the charged other’ and ‘being moved’: Key emotion processes in both shorter-term and longer-term relational psychodynamic psychotherapy (and other forms of therapy).
“The essence of psychotherapy is the experience of the therapeutic relationship and using that to alleviate suffering. Descriptions on the written page... Read more
Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors
Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges. Watch... Read more
Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors
Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges. Watch... Read more
Anxiety Disorders Using the DSM-5-TR™: Assessment, Differential Diagnosis, and Comorbidities
This presentation will enhance your ability to effectively assess and diagnose anxiety disorders. Anxiety Disorders, the most common category of mental... Read more
Suicide & Self-Harm: Stopping the Pain
Your client just revealed that she’s having suicidal thoughts … what do you do? Does she have a gun? Has she written letters? Picked a location... Read more
Suicide & Self-Harm: Stopping the Pain
Your client just revealed that she’s having suicidal thoughts … what do you do? Does she have a gun? Has she written letters? Picked a location... Read more
Medication Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Over 100,000 people died of drug overdoses from April 2021 to March 2022, with over 70% of those deaths due to fentanyl or other powerful synthetic opioids... Read more
Integrate Motivational Interviewing with CBT & DBT: Blend Popular Approaches for Comprehensive Treatment
Dry therapy doesn’t engage clients. Especially when you’re working with clients that present with multiple problems at once… You need to... Read more
The Ideation Factor
Changing How We Think about Youth SuicideSuicidal ideation among teens is overlooked, understudied, and sometimes even willfully ignored. Read more
Sex and the Older Couple
Helping Partners Reimagine DesirePlenty of therapists have internalized the common misconception that at a certain point in our lives, humans are no longer interested in sex and intimacy. Read more
A Case for Family Therapy
Staying Vibrant in the Public SectorAdministrators today recognize this therapy as an effective treatment option for “at risk” families. Read more
September/October 2022: Age Limit 65: Growing Old in an Ageist Society
This issue looks at the subject of doing therapy with older adults, including navigating ageism and other challenges that come with growing older. It also... Read more
ADHD in Diverse Populations: Strategies to Treat Adults, Kids & Collaborate with Care Teams
Disparities in care for clients with ADHD from diverse backgrounds don’t have to exist. You can be a part of closing the gap in treatment inequality... Read more
Suddenly Strangers
Iraq War Vets, PTSD, and the Challenge of RelationshipWith tens of thousands of Iraq War vets with PTSD returning home, therapists increasingly face the challenge of helping them with their troubled marriages. Read more
Trauma-Informed CBT: A Framework for Integrating Affective, Narrative & More Approaches
Your clients impacted by trauma fall into negative self-thoughts, harsh worldviews and every new experience becomes a part of them through a distorted... Read more
Confessions of a Psychological First Responder
A Different Approach to the Healing CraftA therapist who also provides psychological first aid after critical incidents opens up about his work and shares why it's been the most challenging—and... Read more
Is Prolonged Grief a Disorder?
Exploring the New DSM DiagnosisAccording to grief experts, does a new diagnosis in the DSM pathologize a critical component of the human experience? Read more
It's Still Unfair!
Struggling to Establish Equitable RelationshipsWhen couples don’t have models for mastering healthy communication skills, they may regress to old gender scripts to cope, which can feel like its own kind... Read more
Ethical Curiosity with Trans and Non-Binary Clients: Practices to Dismantle the Entitlement to Know
As providers we are often taught that curiosity is a value worth cultivating in ourselves, that is a pro-social virtue that promotes growth, learning, and... Read more
CBT, DBT & EMDR Strategies to Free Clients from Codependency, Narcissistic Abuse & Attachment Trauma
You see codependency in so many clients… and yet, many therapists skip over directly treating it. Your clients are left suffering with a lack of... Read more
ADHD & Emotional Regulation
ADHD often leads your clients to fixate on negative thoughts, experiences and emotions. Seemingly small obstacles, like misplaced keys, can lead to full-on... Read more
De-escalating Disputes
How Therapists Can Stop Runaway ConflictExploring “high conflict” with a bigger picture in mind. Read more
When Actions Speak Louder than Words
Creating Change Through Therapeutic RitualsWhen our attempts to use logic and reason fail, therapeutic rituals can help clients connect to inner resources for healing. Read more
The Myth of the Individual
Tapping into the Relational BrainCurrent research indicates that we’re not walled-in, freestanding individuals. Our human brains—in fact, most mammals’ brains—are built for... Read more
You've Got to Be Kidding
The Power of Humor in TherapyShared laughter is an attachment language. Though therapists usually engage more knowingly with tears, the exchange of brighter affect is another kind of... Read more