Cloe Madanes on Advocating for the Most Vulnerable
Let’s unite to stand up to vested interests that have taken over the mental health system. Read more
Editor's Note - March/April 2015
There’s been a decline in the public’s utilization of psychotherapy as a consequence of the rise of what might be called the Gang of Three: DSM, Big... Read more
Don’t Play It Again, Sam
Chance Encounters Can Change Our LivesSometimes chance encounters can change a life. Read more
VIDEO: Who Should You Talk To?
Janina Fisher on how and when to speak to a client’s “child part”When an adult is in your consulting room, it’s understandable if you use adult language and logic. But at certain points in the healing process, you may need... Read more
VIDEO: How to Help Clients Cope With Overwhelming Emotion
Joan Klagsbrun on Three Focusing Techniques That WorkIntense emotion in the consulting room can leave some clients overwhelmed; others shut down. Either response can derail your session. Now here’s some help... Read more
Doing Hypnosis: Interventions to Immediately Transform Clients with Anxiety, Trauma, Stress, Pain, Addiction, & Obesity
This seminar will EQUIP you to do hypnosis the next day with your clients! Speed up treatment times! Hypnosis works well in 1 to 6 sessions Add the power... Read more
Building Competence in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Transcripts and Insights for Working With Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Other Problems
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an evidence-based program that combines mindfulness and cognitive therapy techniques for working with stress... Read more
Meditation for Slow Learners
Mindfulness Goes Big TimeOver several thousand years, different cultures around the world have discovered how to nurture the seed of a specifically human capacity for mentally... Read more
Mary Pipher on Leaving Our Biases outside the Consulting Room
Finding Respect for All ClientsFrom the moment I met the Correys in my waiting room, I was baffled about why they were together. Frank was tall, good looking and suave; Donna dowdy and... Read more
Larger than Life
Marianne Walters Was Family Therapy's Foremost FeministMarianne Walters didn't invent a brilliant new therapeutic paradigm, publish a large and magisterial body of research, or establish her own unique school of... Read more
Stronger Medicine
Anti-Depressants Haven't Made Therapy ObsoleteAmericans have a history of valuing quick-fix solutions to difficult problems. But the simplistic psychopharmacological approach to depressive disorders... Read more
The Anxious Client Reconsidered
Getting Beyond the Symptoms to Deeper ChangeAnxiety attacks anything and everything in a person's life. Sometimes the targets are the mundane activities that others take for granted. At other times, it... Read more
Letting Go of Our Facade
To Tell the TruthTherapists aren't supposed to discuss personal problems, or even acknowledge having any. While preaching congruence, who among us has never pretended fondness... Read more
DBT in Action: In-Session Client Demonstration
Dialectical Behavior Therapy is one of the most in-demand evidence-based treatments for complex and difficult to treat clinical presentations. Despite... Read more
Who Failed Robert Peace?
Even a Yale Degree Couldn’t Save HimWhy did a seeming rags-to-riches story of a young man’s triumph over poverty and the lure of the streets end so tragically? Read more
The Fiction of the Self
The Paradox of Mindfulness in Clinical PracticeIf we engage in meditation long enough, we discover that our sense of being a separate, coherent, enduring self is actually a delusion maintained by our... Read more
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training with Adolescents
Just think if you had a go-to book that would help solve your toughest challenges when working with troubled teens. Jean Eich, Psy.D., LP, was searching for... Read more
The Pot Shoppe on Main Street
The mental health professions are now being forced to address the debate over marijuana legalization. Read more
The Mindfulness Explosion
The Perils of Mainstream AcceptanceBy replacing the exotic aura of spirituality with the language of science and a down-to-earth self-help approach, mindfulness has brought practices once... Read more
Editor's Note - January/February 2015
Nurturing the seed of the specifically human capacity.Over several thousand years, different cultures have discovered how to nurture the seed of a specifically human capacity—a saving grace, as it were—for... Read more
Nature, Pixelated
How the Virtual World Is Rewiring Our SensesFor the first time in history, we’re mainly experiencing nature through intermediary technology that paradoxically provides more detail while flattening our... Read more
Voices of Reason
Empowering clients to alter their internal experiencesThe case of a young man hearing voices shows how even problems that first appear to be extreme can be resolved by empowering clients to alter subtle aspects of... Read more
Reinventing Couplehood
Intimacy and Commitment in the Age of Consumer MarriageEsther Perel, a couples therapist whose TED talk has had more than 5 million views, believes that it’s time to challenge the mismatch between the romantic... Read more
The Reluctant Guru
Staying in the Moment with Jon Kabat-ZinnA Conversation with Jon Kabat-ZinnSince he first developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in 1979, Jon Kabat-Zinn has not only become a key figure in... Read more
Creating a Sacred Space in Therapy
A Conversation with Jack KornfieldOpenness to the larger mystery of our lives can deepen the therapeutic encounter. Read more
The Anatomy of Procrastination
Helping the ADHD Client Make Changes StickClients with ADHD often know the coping skills that can improve their lives—the problem is applying them in daily life. Read more
A Little Wiggle Room
It's Never too Late to Change Your StoryIt’s never too late to change your story Read more
What's Stopping Us From Changing The World?
Mary Pipher Shares How To Make Meaningful Change PossibleMary Pipher discusses the effects of climate change on clients with anxiety and depression. Read more