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

Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have legalized medicinal or recreational marijuana, or both. But sizeable protests against legalization are... Read more

A therapist recommends exercises like journaling prompts and guided mediations that she feels would benefit her clients between sessions. Although they seem... Read more

The dimensions of the opioid epidemic are staggering, and the national conversation around drug abuse has begun to change. Today, more and more voices are... Read more

Years into the opioid epidemic, a journalist travels to the hardest-hit state to get an up-close look at addiction treatment and the “radically... Read more

An interview with Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, on solution-oriented journalism and creative ways of confronting the opioid crisis. Read more

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Successfully combining families as part of remarriage is always challenging. But it's especially hard when older re-couplers have adult children, who may or... Read more

The modern digital world has presented a daunting therapeutic challenge. Technology is in your clients’ hands, and they’re using it daily to... Read more

65+ Ready-to-Use CBT worksheets that you can reproduce and use immediately with your clients. With step-by-step directions and therapeutic explanations for... Read more

Are you looking for new ways to help your clients combat anxiety? Do you have clients who are having difficulty identifying their triggers, or struggling to... Read more

Are you looking for new ways to help your clients combat anxiety? Do you have clients who are having difficulty identifying their triggers, or struggling to... Read more

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Back in 1979, I was a young dance therapy intern at St. Elizabeth’s, the country’s first federally operated psychiatric hospital, which opened in 1855... Read more

While EMDR is best known for the treatment of PTSD, it’s evolved into a comprehensive, attachment-based approach that addresses a broad range of clinical... Read more

When most of us think of the word “anti-depressant”, we think of a pill, but science is now showing us that pills aren’t the only... Read more