Although it’s not usually acknowledged, change in the consulting room goes both ways. Even as they help clients wrestle with their issues, it’s the rare... Read more

Your work as a therapist can be so rewarding, seeing patients return to their normal live and activity. Yet, there are days when you’re not as locked in... Read more

In this comprehensive toolbox, Dr. David Pratt shares essential cognitive and behavioral skill building activities created and honed over his 40 year... Read more

Teaching kids to be calm and cool with life’s challenges becomes much easier when they learn they have choices in handling their emotions. Some Days I... Read more

When therapists work with anxious kids and their families, they’re often solving immediate problems, not envisioning a clinical relationship that could... Read more

Do you suspect a client may have Bipolar Disorder but feel overwhelmed by the complexity of their clinical presentation? Are you exhausted from chasing your... Read more

Don’t miss this opportunity learn from Dr. Donald Meichenbaum, one of the world’s leading psychotherapists and co-founder of Cognitive... Read more

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A new clinician is working with a client who’s expressed some suicidality at times. She's worried about him and thinks it might be a good idea to have him... Read more

Many traditional approaches to couples therapy are built on the assumption that if you help a couple clear up the emotional issues in their relationship, sex... Read more

What would you do? “I woke up this morning and decided I didn’t have anything to live for. I told my dad that he would find me dead when he came... Read more

Bessel van der Kolk assesses the importance and possible impact of the growing psychedelic-therapy movement. Read more

At the 2016 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, Bill Doherty offered his take on how psychotherapy can reassert its cultural relevance by deepening its vision... Read more

Clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression or chronic pain often struggle with distress-tolerance and poor emotional regulation. These clients are often unable to... Read more

Now significantly revised with over 70% new material, this is the authoritative presentation of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which is taught and... Read more

This article first appeared in the May/June 1989 issue. Back in the 1950s, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Hollywood’s perfect young couple, shocked... Read more

Providing hope and healing is the kind of work that makes you come alive. And you strive to help each client who’s counting on you to deliver. But... Read more

Regardless of your area of focus, you’re likely to encounter Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence at some point in your practice. But abuse can be... Read more

Take advantage of the latest brain research and evidence-based best practices to get kids motivated, focused, organized, and performing closer to their real... Read more

Let’s face it – treating trauma is hard work and it’s not always clear what needs to be done. Dysregulated nervous systems, co-morbidities... Read more

Editor’s Note: This blog is excerpted from a piece that originally appeared in our September/October 1994 issue, Parents Under Siege. Do you think its... Read more

In order to understand the particularity of almost any couple's personal experience, we need to adjust our lens to include not only their private domestic... Read more

Have we unfairly pathologized clients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder? Read more

Whatever one’s position on abortion, it’s hard to dispute that the debate has ramped up radically over the last year. Read more

How therapists can help the traumatized community of immigrants and asylum seekers. Read more

What to do about addressing microaggressions in therapy. Read more

Imagine the helplessness of being unable to distinguish painful past experiences from present ones. According to Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps... Read more

In 1986, people being treated for depression were twice as likely to be in therapy as to be taking pills. Now, for every person in therapy, there are four... Read more

A MeToo memory leads a mother and daughter to connection and healing. Read more

Until they’ve done the challenging and sometimes painful work in therapy, many people can’t even begin to imagine curtailing their drug use. For them... Read more