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IFS and Addictive Processes

Bridging the Gap Between Psychotherapy and Recovery

When therapists fail to recognize that the primary goal of addict parts is to protect clients, they may end up getting sidetracked—or worse, causing... Read more

Pulling Our Teens Back from Internet Addiction

A Family's Nightmare Search for Help

A family confronts the reality that parents alone are ill-equipped to protect their children from online dangers. Read more

Can True Love Be Designed?

Transforming How We Experience and Express Love

Discover two models of love and how distinguishing between them can help therapists support clients in designing a conscious relationship. Read more

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The Client Who's Tried Everything

ACT and ISTDP Tackle One Challenging Case

How do you approach a first session with a client who's tried all kinds of different therapies and yet continues to struggle? Steven Hayes, the cofounder of... Read more

9 Top Apps Therapists Recommend to Clients

From Mindfulness to Your Natal Chart

Discover the top therapist-recommended apps to improve your mental health and well-being, including an app that rates mental health apps! Read more

The Trauma of Parental Abandonment

Helping Survivors Feel Safe, Minimize Shame, and Heal Old Wounds

Here's a five-step process for working with survivors of parental abandonment that helps mitigate self-blame and build trust with the therapist. Read more

Editor's Note: January/February 2025

Spirituality and Psychotherapy

Many therapists have been trained to avoid exploring people’s religious or spiritual beliefs, lest they accidentally question them or unknowingly pull at the... Read more

Breaking the Cycle of High-Functioning Codependency

When Helper’s High Goes Too Far

Many therapists believe their intense care and concern for clients is a form of selfless love. Maybe it’s time to rethink that. Read more

The Beauty of Longing and Melancholy

Susan Cain Celebrates the Sensitive Client

"Bittersweet" invites us to better understand and celebrate the wistful, sensitive people in our lives—and in our therapy practices. Read more

Reimagining God in Therapy

When a Parent’s Critical Voice Is Almighty

Creating a safe space for clients to slowly re-evaluate some core religious teachings they’ve absorbed can be delicate and clinically necessary work. Read more

Three Blocks to Processing Trauma

Getting to the Pain Behind Spiritual Bypass

How do you navigate toxic positivity, and other forms of spiritual bypass, when it’s a block to processing trauma? Read more

The Sacred Work of Heartbreak

Relinquishing the God-like Fantasy of Love

In a society where most people spend more time on dating apps than in places of worship, the pursuit of a romantic partner has become a holy quest. Read more

An Unlikely Companion to EFT

How Can Psychedelics Enhance the Work?

Talk therapy can help couples understand their negative patterns cognitively. Adding psychedelics to the work can help them feel it. Read more

Treating the Trauma in Religious Trauma

Body-Based Healing for Faith-Based Harm

High-control religions can disconnect people from themselves—and somatic therapies are the key to helping them heal. Read more

The Spiritual Therapist

Healing and the Secular Priesthood

Most therapists don’t shy away from discussing charged topics like sex and drugs. But religion and spirituality? That’s a different story—one that a... Read more

Discerning Three Types of Anxiety

Improving Outcomes for Anxious Clients

We can all get caught up in their “anxiety whirlwind” of dysregulation, distorted thoughts, and defensiveness. Understanding some of the most common ways... Read more

Rethinking Insecure Attachment

From a Fixed Model to a Fluid Spectrum

A new framework for visualizing attachment turns a potentially pathologizing concept into a friendly clinical tool. Read more

Listening as the Ultimate Spiritual Act

From Passive Process to Active Practice

How do we change our habit of defensive listening and make emotional presence our practice? Read more

Helping Clients Find Rituals that Heal

Offerings from a Spiritual Therapist

A Sufi therapist invites all clients to find their unique spiritual path through their current struggles. Read more

God, Grief and Therapy

The Quest for Meaning after Loss

Renowned grief expert David Kessler shares what can grief work teach us about the role of religious beliefs in therapy. Read more

Teaching Practical Wisdom

Helping Clients Build Up Their Own Inner Resources

What if wisdom—the elusive prize so many of us strive for—is actually a practical skill clients can gain in the course of everyday therapy sessions? Read more

Tips to Tackle Taxes if You're in Private Practice

Simple Questions Every Therapist Should Be Asking Their CPA

Taxes, bookkeeping, and pretty much anything related to the financial side of your practice can feel complicated. Here are some simple ways to prep for your... Read more

How Do You Know if You're a Culturally Responsive Therapist?

Measurement-Based Care with Diverse Clients

Evidence-based tools can help us embrace our clients' feedback, greatly increase our cultural competence. and improve therapy outcomes. Read more

When Your Client Prefers Chitchat

Finding Meaning in Unlikely Places

If a client can't stop talking about the plot twists of a banal TV show, should you try to change the clinical channel? Read more

Editor's Note: November/December 2024

Facing the Realities of Emotional Abuse

The more informed we are about narcissistic abuse and coercive control, the more we can support survivors of intimate partner violence on their road to healing. Read more

Video Intervention Therapy

Using Client's Home Videos as a Clinical Tool

What if you and your clients could play back their everyday interactions outside of therapy, moment by moment, to uncover blind spots and reimagine family... Read more

The Hidden Trauma of Childhood Neglect

What to Make of Too Much of Nothing

The way neglect can shape a child’s brain is often misunderstood. Read more

Editor's Note: September/October 2024

The Most Important Issue No One Wants to Read

In a recent meeting with several therapists, I shared my plans for upcoming magazine issues. When I talked about exploring new perspectives on coercive... Read more

Sexual Fantasies in Couples Therapy

The Art of Encouraging Erotic Imagination

It takes practice and courage to attune to a couple’s sensitivities and insecurities regarding sexual fantasies, but the payoff can be worth the clinical... Read more

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