A Dog Wanders into My Session
Taking a New Direction in the Therapy RoomA seasoned therapist discovers that the willingness to be a beginner again can sometimes have more value for clients than polished expertise. Read more
A Puncturing of the Soul
Facing Racial Trauma and Internalized DevaluationIf clinicians continue to assert that "trauma is trauma," the uniqueness treating racial trauma will remain on the margins of what we extol as best practice. Read more
When One Partner Is Kinky...
Cracking Open the ConversationHaving an erotic craving that seems shocking to a partner doesn’t have to be a death knell for a relationship. Read more
Rewriting Marriage Contracts
Fresh Options for Ambivalent CouplesThe choice for ambivalent couples is no longer binary: separate or stay together. Instead, therapists can help them craft formal yet flexible agreements... Read more
Honoring the Choice to Be Single
Have We Gotten Past Our Relationship Biases?Americans are choosing to remain single in unprecedented numbers—and contrary to commonly held assumptions in our field, they're not unhappy about it, not... Read more
Dating Again in Your 70s
A Couples Therapist Joins Match.comEven when you've spent your entire career teaching people how to have relationships, finding love is still a risky, humbling, and unpredictable... Read more
Embodying Emotions
Based on the work of leading trauma experts, we know that difficult emotions, trauma and suffering are stored in the body… What hasn’t been so... Read more
Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox, Volume 2
With virtual therapy becoming ever more ubiquitous, how can you keep young clients engaged while providing them with the effective, evidence-based treatment... Read more
Mindfulness in Gottman Couples Therapy
Here are some "hacks" to help your clients be more mindful in their relationships—using the Gottman Method. Read more
Infertility Grief and Trauma
“Do you have kids?” This common intake question is intended to gather information, forge connection, and build context around your clients&rsquo... Read more
Autism Assessment Across the Spectrum: Strategies for Recognizing Functional Differences and Closing the Gender Gap
Current diagnostic criteria for autism continue to be based on how autism looks in boys and men. To make matters worse, it relies almost exclusively on... Read more
MDMA & Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with Michael Mithoefer, MD
Dr. Mithoefer chats about MDMA and psychedelic therapy, their accessibility challenges, as well as what you can expect from his new online course with... Read more
Healing from Affairs: Moving Past the Trauma of Betrayal and Infidelity
In this cutting-edge training, we will discuss the varieties of affairs and the many ways that relationships can heal from the betrayal that affects intimacy... Read more
The Grief Nobody Talks About: Counseling Strategies for Families Facing the Losses of Addiction
It’s a silent grief nobody talks about. Buried in shame, despair and fear; families living with addiction experience deep ambiguous and non-finite grief... Read more
The Grief of Medical Trauma, Injury and Illness: Strategies and Supports for Coping and Adaptation
A line forever between what was and what will be, those impacted by medical trauma and chronic illnesses feel every loss. Struck with a sudden or gradual... Read more
Complicated Spiritual Grief: Assessment and Treatment
Faith, religion, and spirituality can be a supportive and comforting resource following the loss of anyone or anything that leaves a sense of deprivation and... Read more
Mother Loss: Interventions for Clients with Relationships from Unbreakable to Fractured
From clients who’ve lost the biggest source of support in their lives, to those with broken maternal bonding from neglect, abuse, or abandonment, mother... Read more
This Didn't Go as Planned: Practical Approaches to Validate and Process Reproductive Grief
Pregnancy loss, reproductive challenges such as infertility, birth trauma or the experience of a perinatal mental health disorder leave millions of people each... Read more
The Unseen Losses of Sexual Violence: TF-CBT and Grief Work to Restore Clients Sense of Hope, Self-Acceptance and More
Survivors of sexual assault have lost so much. Their sense of safety, trust and control have been robbed from them. Their very sense of identity taken as they... Read more
Ambiguous Loss in Narcissistic Relationships: Clinical Skills to Process the Unresolved Grief of Estrangement
Grief and loss hit clients recovering from narcissistic abuse on multiple levels. From grieving a childhood of abuse and neglect to mourning the loss of the... Read more
Deb Dana’s Putting Polyvagal Theory into Practice: Nervous System-Based Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and More!
At the heart of our client’s symptoms – from anxiety and depression to traumatic stress and more – is a dysregulated nervous... Read more
Non-Death Losses: How the Grief We Don’t Call Grief Applies to Every Client
Most people think grief only relates to death. As such, so many discount and judge their loss experiences as “no big deal.” But now more than ever... Read more
Practice Tools: May/June 2023
The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!Practice Tools for the May/June 2023 issue are courtesy of Arielle Schwartz's book, "Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery." Read more
Clinical Tools for Self-Injury Among LGBTQ+ People
Join Clinical Psychologist and author of The Queer Mental Health Workbook, Dr. Brendan Dunlop, to learn the unique stressors and causes of self-injury among... Read more
The Art and Science of EMDR
The EMDR model is linear – real EMDR is not. Therapists who are trained in EMDR can facilitate healing in the most profound ways. But successful... Read more
When Treatment Becomes Trauma: Medical Trauma Skills for Mental Health Professionals
The list of medical experiences that have the potential to be terrifying, disorienting, and life-altering goes on and on... As a mental health... Read more
