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Digital Seminar August 6, 2015

The Ethics of Touch in Child Psychotherapy & Play Therapy

There are policies and actions that you can put into practice now to protect yourself. What if that simple caring hug you gave a child in a therapy session... Read more

Book August 1, 2015

Relapse Prevention Counseling

Written specifically for clinicians, this comprehensive book makes it easy for you to implement strategies proven to reduce relapse and help your client... Read more

Video July 27, 2015

VIDEO: Four Steps To Get Potential Clients To Contact You Now

Joe Bavonese on how to make your website a magnet for new clients

What if you could immediately to make your website more compelling and more effective in helping potential clients connect with you? Joe Bavonese, marketing... Read more

Video July 20, 2015

VIDEO: The Rewards of More Direct Contact with Potential Clients

Lynn Grodzki On An Opportunity Presented From Tough Times

In this quick clip, Lynn Grodski invites us to think entrepreneurially about how to make the most of just one of the new opportunities she sees in today’s... Read more

Video July 1, 2015

VIDEO: Why Clients Will Pay More For An Intensive Session

Casey Truffo On Structuring A Therapeutic Intensive

With some clients, issues, or circumstances, an hour is not quite enough time to dig in. That’s why it’s great to have an “Intensive Option.” Think of... Read more

Article July 1, 2015

Personality and Habit Change

Are You an Upholder, Obliger, Questioner, or Rebel?

In her first book, The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin tried to answer the question “How do I become happier?” With her new book on changing the habits... Read more

Article July 1, 2015

Writing on Water

A Diary of Riding Out the Storm

December 29, 2013. It was still dark as I was walking the unlit path to my friend’s house for our weekly meditation meeting. Suddenly, my feet went out... Read more

Article July 1, 2015

Editor's Note - July/August 2015

At this moment in history, we seem to be in a divorce-busting mode, relatively speaking, and so fewer therapists are likely to tacitly encourage divorce as... Read more

Article July 1, 2015

The Intentional Divorce

Helping Couples Let Go with Dignity

The therapist's job is to help client couples close one door and open another. Read more

Article July 1, 2015

When a Partner Has Alzheimer’s

Alternatives to Toughing it Out

Helping the traditionalist generation care for their aging partners. Read more

Article July 1, 2015

Therapists without Borders

Fifteen years ago, psychotherapist Jeffrey Kottler never imagined he’d be stuffing nine duffel bags full of antibiotics and suture kits for a return trip... Read more

Article July 1, 2015

Rowing to Nowhere

When is Enough Enough?

A therapist shares how to walk with a client couple through to their divorce and then let them go. Read more

Article July 1, 2015

We’ll Never Be Here Again

Stopping to Listen on a Late-life Passage

Jim and I just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary by taking a trip to the Pacific Northwest. We travel differently than many of our friends, avoiding... Read more

Article July 1, 2015

The Challenge of Open Relationships

Can They Ever Work?

While many therapists are skeptical of open relationships, some believe that, with the right couple, they can work. Read more

Magazine Issue July 1, 2015

Should This Marriage Be Saved?

Therapists and the Dilemma of Divorce

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Article June 25, 2015

Solutions for Moving Beyond the Therapeutic Impasse

Three Strategies for Making Progress with Stuck Clients

When clients get immersed in their problems, they often suffer from a kind of tunnel vision, focused on a small range of experiences, with their bad feelings... Read more

Digital Seminar June 17, 2015

Domestic Violence

Clients who are victims of domestic abuse may not be seeing you because they want to escape their abusive home or need treatment for PTSD or trauma. A client... Read more

Book June 15, 2015

Sex Made Simple

Sex Made Simple is a comprehensive guide to healing sexual issues and dysfunction, with dozens of strategies, techniques and methods to promote healthy... Read more

Book June 1, 2015

Behavior Management Skills Guide

Behavior Management Skills Guide is a unique resource that covers the process of changing behavior in children and adolescents - from start to finish. With... Read more

Article May 7, 2015

How Psychotherapy Helps Us Recover the Beauty in Our Lives

Questions for Helping Therapy Clients Reclaim Meaning

Many walk into the therapist's consulting room exactly at the moment that they have been stripped to the core of their being. While not at the physical... Read more

Article May 5, 2015

Uncovering the Source of Suicidality with Brain Science

Are Serotonin Levels the Key Factor in Suicidal Depression?

I'm at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in northern Manhattan. My guide, Victoria, has been studying the brains of people who committed suicide, and... Read more

Article May 1, 2015

Don't Go It Alone

The Power of Focusing Partnerships

It’s not exactly a state secret: most of us become therapists because we want to help people. We want to help them feel less alone with their pain and find... Read more

Article May 1, 2015

Rediscovering Happiness

The Use of Positive Childhood Triggers in Psychotherapy

To create deep change, we need to help people mine the sources of intense pleasure in their lives, wherever they may find them. Read more

Article May 1, 2015

Is Ketamine the New Antidepressant to Rave About?

Since it was introduced as an anesthetic in the 1970s, ketamine has occupied an uncertain pharmacological status. It’s been used as both a Vietnam-era... Read more

Book May 1, 2015

The Whole-Brain Child Workbook

Dan and Tina talk about their workbook: A Personalized Workbook to Help You Deepen, Reflect On, and Apply Whole-Brain Principles Daniel J. Siegel and Tina... Read more

Article May 1, 2015

Rewriting the 'Difficult Mother' Story

A Son Embraces a New Narrative

Sorting through his mother’s personal files in the wake of her dementia, a son discovers more than he expected. Read more

Article May 1, 2015

Brave New Couples

What Can Science Tell Us about the Changing Face of Couplehood Today?

Susan Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, discusses what the science of love says about what couples can expect when they rebel too much... Read more

Article May 1, 2015

Editor's Note - May/June 2015

Throughout history, for most people it was just expected that work was a difficult, tedious, underpaying, and often soul-killing grind. But in today’s world... Read more

Article May 1, 2015

Surviving Treatment Reviews

How to Speak the Language of Insurance Plans

How to speak the language of medical necessity. Read more