High Times in Therapy
Are We Ready to Talk Pot?Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have legalized medicinal or recreational marijuana, or both. But sizeable protests against legalization are... Read more
How Do I Get Clients to Engage in Work Between Sessions?
Five Clinicians Weigh InA therapist recommends exercises like journaling prompts and guided mediations that she feels would benefit her clients between sessions. Although they seem... Read more
Editor's Note - September/October 2019
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
A Bridge to Recovery
A Grassroots Approach to the Opioid CrisisYears 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
Fighting the Epidemic
An Interview with the Author of DopesickAn interview with Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, on solution-oriented journalism and creative ways of confronting the opioid crisis. Read more
VIDEO: The Biggest Threat to Remarried Boomers
Helping Partners Deal with StepfamiliesSuccessfully 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
Excessive & Harmful Technology Use: Improve Treatment Outcomes with New Evidence-Based Strategies for the Digital Era
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
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Worksheets
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
Anxiety and Panic Disorder: Expressive and Mindfulness-Based Interventions
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
Anxiety and Panic Disorder: Expressive and Mindfulness-Based Interventions
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
Moving in Our Own Way
A Catatonic Client Teaches a Dance Therapist What It Means to ConnectBack 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
VIDEO: Why EMDR Works
What Therapists Need to Know to Treat Trauma EffectivelyWhile 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
A Clinician's Toolkit for Treating Depression: Top Techniques to Move Beyond Medication
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
A Clinician's Toolkit for Treating Depression: Top Techniques to Move Beyond Medication
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
The Suicidal Client: Identify Suicidal Thoughts, Reduce Suicidal Behaviors, and Effectively Manage Crisis Situations
Your work with clients can save lives. But working with suicidality is a source of extraordinary stress. Being a part of life or death decisions comes with... Read more
The Suicidal Client: Identify Suicidal Thoughts, Reduce Suicidal Behaviors, and Effectively Manage Crisis Situations
Your work with clients can save lives. But working with suicidality is a source of extraordinary stress. Being a part of life or death decisions comes with... Read more
Be You Card Deck for Teens
Be You Card Deck has 60 practices to: Ease stress Reduce anxiety Deal with anger and depression Boost self-confidence Realize your full... Read more
Beating Back-to-School Anxiety
Three Therapists Share Stories and TipsIf you work with kids and adolescents, you’re probably no stranger to what these first weeks of school bode for your practice. Back-to-school season can be... Read more
VIDEO: Becoming a "Citizen Therapist"
Working Beyond the Consulting RoomHow does your work as a therapist contribute to the wider world? It’s a question couples and family therapist Bill Doherty asks his colleagues... Read more
I’m Feeling Burned Out
Five Clinicians Give Their AdviceRecently, a therapist has found herself losing steam. She mentally checks out when clients are talking, and constantly feels exhausted. She worries this... Read more
Saving My Younger Self
Black Therapists Rock Member ProfileTherapists who grew up in the communities of color they serve often have the social capital and particular wisdom to better understand clients’ core needs... Read more
Confessions of a Former People Pleaser
The Radical Act of Rethinking Your BoundariesI used to view boundaries as a fancy way of dressing up rejection, incompetence, and selfishness. But after a decade of working as a couples counselor, I've... Read more
High Risk Clients
Crises are never scheduled, convenient or easy. But they happen, and you need the best tools at your disposal to navigate any situation you face. High Risk... Read more
VIDEO: Bringing Parents into Therapy with Kids
Why Anxiety is a Family ProblemWhen it comes to treating anxious kids, the same rules for treating anxious adults don’t apply. According to therapist Lynn Lyons, you might not only... Read more
Ethics: Current Issues and Practical Responses
Tired of the same old information on ethics, errors, and omissions? This course is not a “refresher,” but rather a refreshingly new approach to... Read more
More Than One Way to Heal
Black Therapists Rock Member ProfileIt can be tricky doing therapy in communities where the field’s reputation is mixed, and people often feel more comfortable turning to the church for help... Read more



