Should I Hand My Crying Client a Tissue?
Reading Between the Tears, Permission-Giving, and MoreWhen clients cry in therapy, should you pass the tissues? And what do you say? One clinician worries his clients might interpret passing tissues as him rushing... Read more
Confessions of a Psychological First Responder
A Different Approach to the Healing CraftA therapist who also provides psychological first aid after critical incidents opens up about his work and shares why it's been the most challenging—and... Read more
Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory with Stephen Porges, PhD: Trauma, Attachment, Self-Regulation & Emotions
Discover how powerful insight from the Polyvagal Theory can help you tap into your clients’ nervous system and accelerate treatment outcomes. Polyvagal... Read more
Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory with Stephen Porges, PhD: Trauma, Attachment, Self-Regulation & Emotions
Discover how powerful insight from the Polyvagal Theory can help you tap into your clients’ nervous system and accelerate treatment outcomes. Polyvagal... Read more
Practice Tools - July/August 2022
Discover the best therapeutic tools from across the field of psychotherapyDownload this issue's FREE copy of materials that will help you in your practice. Read more
Therapy Card Decks
A Session in the Palm of Your Hand?Are therapy card decks a clinical tool, a branding exercise, or something else entirely? Read more
Shattered by Suicide
Helping Families in the AftermathSuicide isn't simply the tragedy of someone taking their own life: it's also the long, excruciating nightmare of being left behind. Read more
Is Prolonged Grief a Disorder?
Exploring the New DSM DiagnosisAccording to grief experts, does a new diagnosis in the DSM pathologize a critical component of the human experience? Read more
Breaking the Silence on Postpartum Stress
How Therapists Can HelpAuthor Karen Kleiman argues that postpartum distress is normal—and should be normalized more in our society. Read more
Leaning toward the Light
Mary Pipher Turns Her Gaze InwardIn her new memoir, Mary Pipher refuses to dumb down what it takes to create a rewarding life. Read more
Moving Through Grief
An Emotionally Focused ApproachOnce blocks to the organic grief process are identified and removed, how can therapists choreograph corrective emotional experiences? Read more
The Inheritance of Loss
A Therapist and Client Grieve TogetherWhile grief can be a familiar creature that lives inside us, we often treat it as a stranger Read more
Managing Your Waitlist
How to Tackle the Ethical DilemmasLynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC, explores the ethics of client waitlists and offers best practices for establishing and maintaining them. Read more
Editor's Note: July/August 2022
Moving on from 'Move On' Culture with Grief WorkShould we really be turning long-held grief into a mental illness? Or might it be an actual disorder, in some cases? Read more
Cultivating Empathy
Do We Really Know How Our Clients Feel?Rather than proclaiming that you understand a client's experience, you're far better off assuming that you don't have a clue what they're going through. Read more
A Therapist Confronts Cancer
Finding a Way through the AbyssNo one can prevent the horrors of cancer, but processing this particular experience of loss with a therapist who's been through it may stave off the trauma of... Read more
It's Still Unfair!
Struggling to Establish Equitable RelationshipsWhen couples don’t have models for mastering healthy communication skills, they may regress to old gender scripts to cope, which can feel like its own kind... Read more
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Card Deck
Designed for kids 8-12, the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Card Deck provides teachers, parents, and therapists with 55 engaging and fun activities that... Read more
Thank You Breath
We all have a superpower within us – the incredible ability to use our breath to energize us when we’re feeling tired, settle us down when... Read more
The SEL Toolbox
Teaching kids about social-emotional (SEL) skills in a controlled environment is one thing. Whether they use those skills independently in other situations... Read more
Attachment Grief
Living with the Loss of a ChildFor someone who has survived the death of their child, describing grief as a journey perpetuates the myth that, eventually, there’s an end point. Read more