Something Close to Warmth: A Daughter's Search for Meaning
By Jill Sammak
July/August 2021
Finding solace after the death of an absent father.
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The Threat Response of Appease: Do You Know It When You See It?
July/August 2021
How can therapists address historical trauma and the common threat response of appeasement?
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The Angry Therapist: Transparency as a Therapeutic Tool
July/August 2021
John Kim believes that a therapist’s own vulnerability helps clients feel comfortable enough to bare their own souls—and he practices what he preaches.
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Flexibility and Focus in the Therapy Room
July/August 2021
As a therapist, is it better to adapt an eclectic approach or specialize in the one you believe in most? Perhaps the answer isn’t as simple as it seems.
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Exploring How It Serves Our Clients
By Shankar Vedantam
July/August 2021
To create a world that produces the best in us, we must certainly be informed by reason, rationality, and science, but we must also deploy the aspects of our minds that are prone to storytelling, symbols—and even self-deception.
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Reframing Cognitive Distortions
July/August 2021
Beyond identifying the distortions in negative cognitions, how can we help clients understand that negative thoughts and feelings aren’t the result of what’s wrong with them—but what’s right with them?
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A Therapist Comes to Terms with a Client’s Suicide
By John Sommers-Flanagan
July/August 2021
When it comes to coping with suicide deaths, we therapists need to let go of our superhero expectations and support one another as dedicated, fallible professionals and human beings.
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The TikTok Therapist: Goodbye, Blank Slate
July/August 2021
For some therapists, using TikTok isn’t a marketing tactic, but a public service.
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The Outsized Dreams of Adolescents
By Martha Straus & Kevin McKenzie
July/August 2021
What if we stopped looking to modify the unique functioning of the teenage brain—delusional though it may be at times—and did more to foster the creative and generative aspects of an adolescent’s alternative worldview?
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The Anthropocene Dilemma: Can We Save Ourselves from Ecological Despair?
May/June 2021
It’s a truism that climate change has become an existential crisis. Can a new book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist help mitigate ecological despair?
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Relearning Parenthood: When Children Reach Adulthood, What Then?
By Sharon Saline
May/June 2021
When our kids no longer need us to be problem solvers, what do we become?
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Casting a Wider Therapeutic Net: Dr. Joy on Therapy for Black Girls
May/June 2021
The founder of a rapidly growing online community helps young Black women candidly discuss and destigmatize mental health issues.
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Four Body Awareness Techniques from Manuela Mischke-Reeds' Bestselling "Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox"
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May/June 2021
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Evoking the Inner Artist: How to Replace Discomfort with Creativity
May/June 2021
Vulnerability, doubt, fear, and uncertainty—feelings most people try to avoid—are essential to cultivating creativity.
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The Healing Power of Giving Kids the Mic
May/June 2021
The process of creating beats and lyrics is rooted in therapeutic practices. At one South Bronx high school, a school social worker has traded the therapy room for the music studio.
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Gender-Affirmative Therapy for Kids: What Parents Need to Know
May/June 2021
Supporting transgender children doesn’t always mean rushing toward medical intervention.
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Resilience and Strength in Perilous Times
May/June 2021
A cancer diagnosis, while devastating, can be a powerful teacher. Through the fear and anxiety, we can discover how to reliably calm ourselves and ask for support.
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Psychedelic Therapy and Racial Trauma: Offering Clients a Deeper Experience of Healing
May/June 2021
Can psychedelic therapy offer a faster, deeper way to heal the intergenerational effects of racial injustice?
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Tackling Therapy’s Biggest Challenge
May/June 2021
Will screening peer counselors for empathy create an affordable, effective option for the tens of millions of Americans who can’t access therapy, or perhaps don’t want it?
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Walking in Balance with Indigenous Cultures
May/June 2021
In working with an Indigenous community, a therapist learns the importance of walking with his clients, not out in front of them.
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Replacing Punishment with Compassion
May/June 2021
A movement to integrate trauma-informed care into our justice system aims to decriminalize mental illness and address a foundational cause of mass incarceration.
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May/June 2021
I’m inspired by the courage of the therapists featured in this issue, who are stretching beyond their customary professional roles to apply their clinical skills in new ways. It takes commitment, an adventurous spirit, and often it’s a juggling act. But their common goal—and their passion—is to expand access to those too often shut out of the mental health system.
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Therapy in the Surf Circle
By Adam Moss & Nathan Greene
May/June 2021
Learning to surf requires awareness, focus, and flexibility—perhaps the most essential qualities for navigating the complexities of life. For some young clients, the ocean is proving to be a powerful co-therapist.
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May/June 2021
The Listeners
Taking Therapy to New Places
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