When clients tell us stories about people who cause them pain it can be easy to take their side and see things their way. If we aren’t careful, we end up... Read more

Forgiveness is often a triggering and complicated issue, particularly as it relates to relational trauma or complex PTSD. Some clients don’t want to... Read more

By 2034, there will be more people 65 and older than children under the age of 18. Yet, most older adults—due to stigma, ageism, access and a lack of... Read more

Childhood developmental trauma leaves people with a legacy of overwhelming emotions and a fragmented sense of self. Unaware that their intense reactions... Read more

While EMDR is best known for the treatment of PTSD, it’s evolved into a comprehensive psychotherapy that addresses a broad range of daily life... Read more

When is a client’s family member too toxic to keep? When is it worth it to heal a longstanding family rift? For many of our clients, their families are a... Read more

While many therapists tend to focus on problems, solution-focused brief therapists are trained in the deceptively simple art of asking targeted questions that... Read more

Many people define intercourse as penetration, disregarding all other aspects of sexual connection such as foreplay or afterplay. The pressure for penetrative... Read more

How do we navigate the emotional landscape with a client when their present is more about the painful past or dreaded future? In this workshop, you will learn... Read more

When your client expresses a desire to die, it’s not enough to assess suicide risk and make a safety plan. You also need to help the person want to live... Read more

I imagined throwing my baby across the room. I think my baby will die. What if I push my baby under the bath water? If a postpartum client disclosed these... Read more

It’s essential that clinicians understand not just the phenomenon of narcissistic abuse (or antagonistic relational abuse), but the fallout from it (the... Read more

Beyond affairs, violations in intimate relationships are often the result of more common and seemingly small and innocuous betrayals. And when one or both... Read more

Some of today’s most popular TV shows, books, TED Talks, and podcasts not only feature therapists, but also real-life therapy clients willing to share... Read more

The data is clear: most of us will author more than one love story in our lifetime. We talk a lot about the skills and paradigms needed to create an intimate... Read more

We know from recent research that many women do two-thirds of what it takes to run a home and a family, regardless of whether they work outside the home or... Read more

There are several unique historical and cultural considerations that impact clinical work with Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) clients, particularly... Read more

Although there’s a clear connection between insecure attachment in childhood and a client’s inability to navigate emotional states and self-soothe... Read more

Too often the primary focus of gender-affirmative care is the alleviation and resolution of gender dysphoria. But what if we could expand our clinical... Read more

How exactly do people become stuck in their trauma, and how can they recover? Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a rapidly growing model that has uncovered... Read more

Anxiety may be everywhere, but even within our field, we seem to know little about how it operates and is maintained. Without information and interventions... Read more

When clients become overwhelmed with strong emotions, it’s critical that we can sit with what’s happening and help them find a way through. But... Read more

Even though shame is universal, how much did you learn about it in your training as a mental health professional? It’s critical that we help clients... Read more

In this recorded address, Mona Delahooke illustrates through real-life cases some potential problems with categorically-based DSM diagnoses in children such as... Read more

Childhood trauma leaves survivors with a fundamental mistrust in the safety of relationships. As adults, they develop defenses against vulnerability... Read more

When overwhelming experiences continue to be lived out in the body, trauma survivors feel unsafe, on edge, ashamed, and shut down. Healing and transformation... Read more

In this deeply polarized and uncertain world, we’re bombarded with cues of danger that cause us either to react in anger and fear or to retreat in... Read more

Grieving is an act of love, a love letter to what has been lost, and it lasts for the rest of our lives. But grief and loss can test our sense of resilience... Read more

Some of the most powerful ways of working with neurodiverse clients are unfortunately the most overlooked. For ADHD therapy to be effective, therapists must... Read more

Trauma doesn’t just leave behind emotional pain—it can also manifest in physical pain that drives addictions, stalls progress in therapy, and fuels... Read more