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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

Article May 1, 2015

Burnout Reconsidered

What Supershrinks Can Teach Us

Jessica, a counselor in her mid-30’s, works at a large, public mental health clinic in a major metropolitan area. Her workday begins early, the alarm... Read more

Article May 1, 2015

6 Micro-Practices for Self-Care

The Power of Little and Often

Many common self-care practices feel like an additional burden to those struggling with burnout. Micro self-care practices, which cost nothing and take... Read more

Article May 1, 2015

Getting Over Weight?

A Critic of our Cultural Obsession Goes Too Far

A critic of one of our central cultural obsessions goes too far Read more

Article May 1, 2015

The Colors of Tomorrow

Highlights From Symposium 2015

After a brutal winter that would’ve given Ernest Shackleton pause, more than 3,700 therapists welcomed the opportunity to escape cabin fever, get out of the... Read more

Magazine Issue May 1, 2015

Burnout

New Approaches to Rekindling the Flame
Book April 27, 2015

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

A book for clinicians and clients to use together that explains key concepts of body psychotherapy. The body’s intelligence is largely an untapped... Read more

Book April 26, 2015

The Therapeutic "Aha!": 10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients Unstuck

A concise guide to shaking things up in therapy. Courtney Armstrong’s The Therapeutic “Aha!” explores the thrilling and rare moment when a... Read more

Article April 23, 2015

Addressing Race Therapeutically in Black Relationships

Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium

Today I attended a workshop called “Working with Black Couples: Overcoming Myths and Stereotypes,” led by Dr. Christiana Awosan. Being an African American... Read more

Article April 21, 2015

The Therapeutic Goldmine of Song, Dance, and Mindfulness

Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium

John Kabat-Zinn sparked my interest when he recounted the time Oprah asked him, "Is there life after death?" His reply to her: "Oprah, I'm interested in the... Read more

Video April 20, 2015

VIDEO: Getting around Kids' Defense Systems

Using Animal Friends

It can be hard to get around your young clients’ defense systems so that the good, therapeutic information gets through. Charlotte has a way to get around... Read more

Article April 16, 2015

Addressing Race and Culture in the Therapy Room

Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium

As a family therapist, I know the power of thinking relationally, collaborating, and working across difference to find the many places where we actually share... Read more

Article April 14, 2015

Mindfulness, Conscious Breathing Exercises, and Cyber Intimacy

Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium

Although I have read his books and seen many videos of him in action, today's Networker Symposium workshop was the first in-person opportunity I've had to hear... Read more

Article April 9, 2015

Couples Therapy, Brainspotting, and Truth in Love

Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium

I had the pleasure of attending the Brainspotting seminar with David Grand today. What fresh and amazing information! I am drawn to anything that involves the... Read more