Fostering Client Flexibility: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as a Process of Change
Evidence-based therapy is changing. Where once treatment favored protocols for certain syndromes, now, in a new era of process-based therapy, the focus has... Read more
Emerging Psychedelic Treatments: Opportunities and Challenges
Media reports about psychedelics are now more likely to be about emerging therapeutic uses than about raves or drug busts. Are your clients asking you about... Read more
Why Aren't We Talking About Narcissism?
Clinical psychologist Ramani Durvasula is today’s authority on the hot-button issue of narcissism. Her books, “Don’t You Know Who I... Read more
Finding a Faster Way to Treat Trauma: A Neurobiologically Informed Approach
Increasingly, therapists are under pressure to provide short-term treatment for long-term issues. But how can we possibly treat trauma briefly? After all, many... Read more
Busting Open How We Think About Burnout
Bestselling author and Kinsey-trained sex educator Emily Nagoski’s deeply sympathetic, sex-positive book, Come as You Are, became an... Read more
Gender-Affirmative Therapy
Nothing is scarier to transgender individuals seeking care than sitting down with a therapist who’s poorly informed about issues facing the trans... Read more
How Cognitive Processing Therapy Heals PTSD
How exactly do people become stuck in their trauma, and how can they recover? Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a rapidly growing model that has uncovered... Read more
Becoming a Solution-Focused Therapist: How to Make Therapy Briefer and More Effective
While most traditional therapies tend to focus on a problem rather than its solution, solution-focused brief therapists are trained in the deceptively simple... Read more
Narcissistic Abuse for Therapists: Empower Clients to Break Free and Recover from Gaslighting, Emotional Manipulation and Coercion
You may be working with a victim of narcissistic abuse without even knowing it. Clients in your caseload who lack self-esteem, can’t say no, and blame... Read more
The Hidden Brain Speaks: Neurofeedback in Clinical Practice
Many clients move in and out of therapy reporting surface changes leaving deeper distress untouched. Watch us in exploring how neurofeedback gives us direct... Read more
Working with Narcissistic Abuse: Addressing the Impact of High-Conflict Personality Styles
Narcissism is a ubiquitous term these days, but when it shows up in therapy—even indirectly—most clinicians aren’t sure how to approach it... Read more
The Many Faces of EMDR Therapy: An Integrative Approach
People don’t often think of EMDR as psychotherapy. But these two paths to healing can coexist. So how do we reconcile EMDR therapy as a breakthrough... Read more
Healing Trauma in Couples Therapy: Two Contrasting Approaches
Childhood trauma leaves survivors with a fundamental mistrust in the safety of relationships. As adults, they develop defenses against vulnerability... Read more
Why Behavioral Science Has Failed Us and What Can Be Done About It
The codeveloper of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and of Process-Based Therapy, Steven C. Hayes has authored nearly 50 books, including a #1... Read more
Bringing the Body into Therapy: Clinical Tools from Relationship Repair and Somatic Experiencing
When it comes to tapping into clients’ natural resources for healing from trauma, the body is an invaluable tool. Not only does it store information... Read more
A Strengths-Based Approach to Suicidality: Crucial Strategies to Integrate in Your Practice
Most therapists agree: no clinical tasks are more stressful than suicide assessment and treatment planning. When working with people who are suicidal... Read more
From Pain to Pleasure: Erotic Recovery in Trauma Healing
Eroticism isn’t sex; it’s the landscape on which we play out our deepest thoughts, dreams, impulses, and even painful memories. It’s an... Read more
Retiring the Inner Critic: Ending the Flood of Shaming Self-Talk
Our clients work hard to bounce back from stress and reverse the impacts of trauma, only to have those efforts derailed time and time again by relentless... Read more
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Traumatized Individuals: Shaping a New Sense of Self
Emotionally Focused Therapy is a well-known approach to couples treatment that foregrounds attachment in the relationship. What if we could take EFT’s... Read more
Beyond Behaviors: Moving Toward Brain-Body Integration with Kids
Anyone who’s worked with kids can attest that top-down cognitive and behavioral interventions are commonly used to address anxiety, noncompliance, and... Read more
F*ck Binaries!: Liberating the Clinical Imagination
What would happen if we thought of our work as helping clients imagine into the radical and transformative possibilities of their being and their... Read more
The Great Adaptation
Influential therapist Esther Perel is the author of the bestsellers Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs, and host of the popular podcasts “Where... Read more
Transcending Trauma with IFS Therapy: Mending the Wounds We Carry
Hopeless, anxious, isolated. For many clients with complex PTSD, life can be a draining march of negative feelings and rejection. And for the therapists who... Read more
Happily Even After: Fostering Well-Being and Resilience in Difficult Times
In recent years, research has shown that positive psychological principles can play an important role both in fostering well-being during good times, but also... Read more
Playful Parts: The Intersection of Play Therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
When kids experience trauma or other negative life events such as abuse, neglect, bullying, racism, violence, or educational difficulties, they often hold... Read more
What's New with Sex?: Expanding and Exploring the Therapeutic Comfort Zone
Working with sexuality and erotic behavior can challenge a therapist’s biases and countertransference around intimacy and relationships. This session... Read more
Energy Psychology for Treating Trauma: A Fast Path to Emotional Regulation
What if you could give clients immobilized by trauma or overwhelming affect fast relief, without having to worry about retraumatizing them by rehashing what... Read more
Playful Parts: The Intersection of Play Therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
When kids experience trauma or other negative life events such as abuse, neglect, bullying, racism, violence, or educational difficulties, they often hold... Read more
Cultivating Post-Traumatic Growth: Hope from the Very First Sessions
Have you ever been working with a traumatized client, compassionately bearing witness to their symptoms, but unable to shake the feeling that you’re... Read more