Responding to Extreme Trauma Symptoms
How Neuroscience Can HelpHow an understanding of the brain can inform our trauma interventions. Read more
Apologizing Under Fire
How to Handle Big-Time CriticismIt’s difficult enough to offer an apology when we see the need for it and believe it’s the right thing to do. It’s far more difficult when we’re... Read more
Intimate Enemies
A Stepson Reconsiders a Long-Held ResentmentA stepson reconsiders a long-held resentment. Read more
The Empathy Gap
Digital Culture Needs What Talk Therapy OffersConditioned by the experience of life on the screen, clients today find it harder to concentrate on face-to-face conversation. They may not even see its value... Read more
Editor's Note - November/December 2016
In this issue, our contributors reveal, in ways that were all quite stunning to me, the magnitude and vast social implications—for us and our profession—of... Read more
Food and Mood
What Every Therapist Needs to Know about NutritionWhat therapists should know about nutrition and the food-mood connection. An interview with Joan Borysenko. Read more
Is VR a Game Changer?
Virtual Reality in TherapyTo date, virtual reality’s most visible therapeutic role has been in the treatment of phobias and other conditions where it’s served as an adjunct to... Read more
Caught in a Web
A World Where Life Is Always ElsewhereEvery day, every moment, we must wade through the flood of incoming alerts and emails urgently demanding our time and attention, all the while knowing that... Read more
Trigger Warnings: Compassion or Coddling?
Therapists wade into the controversy about trigger warnings for potentially disturbing college course material. Read more
Left to Our Own Devices
Sorting Through The Bewildering World Of Therapeutic AppsMobile apps offer tools for everything from depression, social anxiety, and binge eating to phobias, OCD, postpartum problems, and substance abuse recovery. In... Read more
Bullying Reconsidered
Helping Children Help Each OtherWhile research indicates that most anti-bullying projects don’t work, a disarmingly simple approach has shown promising results. Read more
Are You a "Permaparent"?
Your Adult Child Just Moved Back Home. But Is It Normal?Today, about 25 million young adults between between 18 and 34 are currently residing with their parents. In its basic form, this story holds that most... Read more
Mindful Reminders Card Deck
Live your life more fully, reduce stress and remove distractions with the Mindful Reminders Card Deck. These 52 simple, yet powerful practices will help you... Read more
The Power of Mindfulness as Practice + Mindfulness, Healing and Transformation
In a constantly shifting world with an accelerating onslaught of information coming at us, it's more important than ever to develop and nurture regular... Read more
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work Couples Guide
This guide accompanies the revised version of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. It provides couples with interactive step-by-step exercises for... Read more
VIDEO: Diane Poole Heller on the Hidden Capabilities of Trauma Survivors
Watch as a Traumatized Client Taps Into a Wellspring of Healing in an Actual SessionThink all traumatized clients are shut-down and energy-sapped? Think again. In this clip from her Networker Symposium Keynote, "Creating a Corrective Emotional... Read more
VIDEO: Susan Johnson on the Power of Emotion
The Secret Ingredient in Good TherapyEmotion is the most important motivating force bringing clients to our offices in the first place. Nevertheless, therapists are often strangely queasy in the... Read more
Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Children Card Deck
Jennifer Cohen Harper, Little Flower Yoga founder, author, and mindfulness and yoga expert (and parent), has created another unique resource to help children... Read more
150 More Group Therapy Activities & TIPS
Bestselling author Judy Belmont has created another treasure chest of hands-on and easy-to-use handouts, activities, worksheets, mini-lessons and quizzes that... Read more
Editor's Note - September/October 2016
Clearly, therapists must always respond with empathy, understanding, and attuned clinical expertise to clients’ suffering. But the theme of this issue is... Read more
Hiding in Plain Sight
Clients' Symptoms Offer Clues to Their StrengthsAs therapists, we’re taught to be master detectives who methodically investigate our clients’ symptoms in search of a “culprit”—the source of their... Read more
Living Brave
From Vulnerability to DaringWith millions of people having seen her TED talks and read her books, researcher and bestselling author Brené Brown is a phenomenon. But aside from her... Read more
Mistaken Identity?
A Daughter Reflects on Her Father's Decision to Change GenderPulitzer Prize–winning author Susan Faludi explores the story of how the despotic father who’d once ruled her terrified family underwent sex reassignment... Read more

