Preventing Childhood Anxiety and Depression: How to Expand Our Paradigm
Given the increasing rates of child and adolescent anxiety and depression, it’s clear our current treatment paradigm isn’t working to proactively... Read more
A Journey into Transgender Mental Health: Transcending the Binary
When seeking care, nothing is scarier to transgender individuals than a provider who’s poorly informed about the issues facing their community. From... Read more
The Dating Crucible: Navigating the Common Challenges
With more and more people choosing to marry later in life and sometimes not at all, knowing how to date well in today’s fast-paced world is essential... Read more
Guilt, Shame, and the Traumatized Client: Finding Release from Toxic Emotions
Although trauma can affect clients’ inner lives in countless ways, most survivors grapple with deep-seated feelings of guilt and shame. Until these... Read more
Polyvagal Theory in Action: Harnessing the Healing Potential of the Autonomic Nervous System
At its most basic level, human communication is one nervous system responding to another, searching for signals that it’s safe to connect and flooding us... Read more
Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Sensorimotor Approach to Change
The very nature of depression often thwarts efforts to treat it. After all, it’s difficult to change when you have no energy, no hope, and no capacity to... Read more
Exploring IFS Therapy in Action: Leading Clients to Self-Leadership
Healing is a word derived from the German hailjan, meaning “to make whole.” To truly heal isn’t easy, since it involves reconnecting with... Read more
The Ethical Dilemmas in Today’s Therapy: Clarifying Boundaries
The ethical rules for therapists used to be straightforward and unambiguous: no gifts, no dual relationships, and no out-of-session contact. But with the ease... Read more
The Living Legacy of Trauma with Janina Fisher, PhD: Tangible Tools to Transform Clinical Practice
After the overwhelming experience is over and they have survived, traumatized individuals are left with only a fragmented, confusing sense of what... Read more
The Living Legacy of Trauma with Janina Fisher, PhD: Tangible Tools to Transform Clinical Practice
After the overwhelming experience is over and they have survived, traumatized individuals are left with only a fragmented, confusing sense of what... Read more
Autism Intervention Using a Trauma-Informed Lens: Creating a Foundation of Safety & Trust to Promote Self Awareness & Problem Solving
Since the Covid-19 Pandemic began, children across the country and the world have experienced significant changes within their homes, schools, and communities... Read more
Psychopharmacology in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Many individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are on medications that are not supported in the literature as being effective in treating symptoms of... Read more
Social Skills Intervention for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum: Helping Clients Overcome Today’s Obstacles in Social Skills
In this video session, autism expert Jay Berk, PhD, will provide valuable insight into the unique social skills challenges faced by children, adolescents, and... Read more
Art Therapy Interventions for Anxiety, Chronic Pain and Addictions
Are you looking for new ways to help your clients combat negative self-talk to push through fears and anxiety, and turn away from self-destructive isolating... Read more
Art Therapy Interventions for Anxiety, Chronic Pain and Addictions
Are you looking for new ways to help your clients combat negative self-talk to push through fears and anxiety, and turn away from self-destructive isolating... Read more
Social Skills Intervention for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum: Helping Clients Overcome Today’s Obstacles in Social Skills
In this video session, autism expert Jay Berk, PhD, will provide valuable insight into the unique social skills challenges faced by children, adolescents, and... Read more
Autism Intervention Using a Trauma-Informed Lens: Creating a Foundation of Safety & Trust to Promote Self Awareness & Problem Solving
Since the Covid-19 Pandemic began, children across the country and the world have experienced significant changes within their homes, schools, and communities... Read more
Psychopharmacology in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Many individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are on medications that are not supported in the literature as being effective in treating symptoms of... Read more
Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, and Clinical Virtual Reality (VR): New Technologies for Treating Sensorimotor Impairments
Virtual Reality (VR) has now emerged as an efficacious tool in many areas of assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation in children and adults! Join Albert... Read more
Clinical Virtual Reality (VR): New Technologies for Treating Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, and Sensorimotor Impairments
Virtual Reality (VR) has now emerged as an efficacious tool in many areas of assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation in children and adults! Join Albert... Read more
Perinatal Loss: An Attachment-Informed Treatment Framework for Helping Clients Process and Heal from Pregnancy Loss
It’s not a topic that people will bring up at work, over coffee, or even at get togethers with close friends. Instead, 1 in 4 women suffer in silence... Read more
Trauma-Informed Yoga: A Toolbox for Therapists
Although many forms of trauma treatment rely solely on talk therapy as a means of healing, we cannot “talk out” every issue related to trauma... Read more
Sexuality and Sexual Behavior Challenges for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum
Join Cara Daily, PhD, BCBA, as she guides you through sex education topics geared specifically towards those on the spectrum, including—puberty, dating... Read more
Gender Dysphoria & Autism Spectrum Disorder
The correlation between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and gender variance can be complicated, often leaving the treating clinician with more questions than... Read more
On the Death of My Friend
A Reflection on Bipolar Disorder and SuicideHelping our community understand the suicide of one of modern psychotherapy’s most cherished public figures. Read more
Reflections on Rich
Friends Celebrate His Life and LegacySharing how Rich Simon impacted our lives—and the field as a whole. Read more
Conspiracy Theories in the Consulting Room
Speak Up, or Stay Quiet?Five clinicians offer practical guidance for working with clients expressing misinformed views rooted in conspiracy theories. Read more
Reflecting on Hardship & Taking a Self-Compassion Break
This issue's practice tools to use with clients right away. Read more