3-Day Advanced Grief Counseling Certification Course: Interventions to Move Clients Toward Healthy Grieving, Growth and Meaning After Loss
A wave of grief and loss has impacted millions of people and more clients than ever before are seeking the help of professionals. But if you’re like... Read more
EMDR for Body Image Concerns and Disordered Eating
EMDR can be a core intervention in the treatment and maintenance of recovery from trauma, including its impacts on body image and disordered eating. This... Read more
Four Simple Ingredients
Lessons on Baking with MatthewFour simple ingredients will become bread, whether you do everything right or not. The result may not be perfect, but it doesn’t have to be. Read more
Suicide as a State of Being
One Man's Ongoing StruggleA new memoir from celebrated writer Donald Antrim reflects on the nature of suicide. Read more
Burnout and the Body
Emily Nagoski on Naming the Real EnemySelf-care has long been touted as a panacea for burnout. Emily Nagoski has a different solution. Read more
Bursting the Bubble of Individual Therapy
The Need to See Your Clients in a Relational ContextAs the years pass, is it possible that the more we work with long-term clients, the more we might overlook bigger issues that aren’t being addressed? Read more
When Therapists Blame Themselves
Using Regret to Deepen Our WorkMost therapists struggle with guilt and self-blame related to their work. Thankfully, there are ways to leverage these feelings so we can grow from them. Read more
Is Meditation as Safe as We Think?
The Risks We Don’t Talk AboutMeditation is generally considered one of the safest practices for our clients. But one organization says that’s not always the case. Read more
Unlearning Weight Stigma
The Latest Science on Weight and TraumaIt's time to untangle weight gain and binge eating from trauma. Read more
Life Without Atticus
When Siblings Parent Each OtherChildren need an adult who provides safety, attunement, empathy, acceptance, and boundaries. Can a sibling be the next best thing? Read more
Mediating Estrangement
How to Help Family Members CoexistAfter journeying through the Family Dialogue process, estranged family members often end up adjusting the very notion of what togetherness means. Read more
Estrangement 101
Helping Parents Reengage Their KidsHelping parents process their own childhood pain is a difficult but necessary part of helping them reconnect with an estranged child. Read more
When Adult Siblings Struggle
Three Steps Toward RepairThe session was supposed to be a consultation between two middle-aged sisters—my client, Annie, and her sister, Carol—about sharing their... Read more
When Therapists Encourage Family Cutoffs
Are We Helping or Harming?Today’s culture of therapy both reflects and contributes to our nation’s ever-growing embrace of individualism—for better and, sometimes, for worse. Read more
Love, Separation, and Power
Resolving a Mother–Daughter ConflictThe power that parents have to influence the wellbeing of their adult children is often underestimated. Read more
Whatever Happened to Family Therapy?
Today's Renaissance in Systems ThinkingIn their rush to change family systems—if not the world—family therapists didn’t anticipate that they too would be affected by structural forces. Read more
Editor's Note: January/February 2022
Navigating Family Cut-OffsWhat’s the emotional fallout of family cut-offs, both for those who initiate them and for the rest of the family? And how can therapists best navigate this... Read more
January/February 2022: Family Rifts: How You Can Lend a Hand
This issue investigates the issue of estrangement and how therapists can respond. It also raises questions about the current state of family therapy, and the... Read more
The Missing Stage of Grief: Clinical Strategies to Overcome Anxiety in the Wake of Loss
Anxiety is common, but the fear and anxiety brought on by grief is its own breed and needs to be treated as such. Yet in the famous five stages of grief... Read more
The Missing Stage of Grief: Clinical Strategies to Overcome Anxiety in the Wake of Loss
Anxiety is common, but the fear and anxiety brought on by grief is its own breed and needs to be treated as such. Yet in the famous five stages of grief... Read more
Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox
Keeping kids engaged in therapy comes with its own set of challenges – and doing it over a screen is no exception. As clinicians increasingly make the... Read more
The Playful Therapist
Bringing Levity and Humor to the WorkFive therapists share how they bring play and humor into their work. Read more
Beyond Behaviors Flip Chart
Therapist Approved! Psychoeducational flip charts are a unique and reusable in-session therapy tool that bring clinical concepts to life. Buy it once... Read more
2-Day Experiential Internal Family Systems Therapy Workshop
This unique training by expert clinician, IFS therapist, and author Frank Anderson, MD, will give you a deep dive into the theory, principles and practical... Read more
2-Day Experiential Internal Family Systems Therapy Workshop
This unique training by expert clinician, IFS therapist, and author Frank Anderson, MD, will give you a deep dive into the theory, principles and practical... Read more