Clinical Practice & Guidance

Although therapy is often considered a profession dominated by the female sensibility, a lifelong gym rat, much practiced in the arts of masculine aggression... Read more

Some practical guidelines for handling confrontive and critical clients. Read more

There's no more emotionally demanding work than that with an incestuous family. A therapist offers an uncensored look at the fear, loathing, and fascination of... Read more

A variety of easy-to-use yogic breathing techniques can add a new dimension to treatment with depressed and anxious clients. Read more

Effective work with sex addicts must address deep-seated attachment wounds. Commentary by Joe Kort. Read more

Whether they know it or not, what most people are looking for in sex therapy isn't so much a change in specific behaviors as a way of developing a more... Read more

EMDR helps a young Iraq War vet and his wife emerge from the nightmare of his war experience. Read more

Modern therapy has given scant attention to morally elevated emotions like awe, gratitude, and admiration, resulting in a skewed picture of how people actually... Read more

What do issues of fairness and relational justice have to do with psychotherapy? Read more

Given that most couples never manage to change each other very much, teaching them to forgive each other's imperfections is a vastly underutilized therapeutic... Read more

More and more chronic pain patients are being referred to therapists after their physicians conclude that they show every appearance of being healed. Read more

Therapists need to get beyond the common misconception about Alcoholics Anonymous. Read more

In a memorable scene in Fiddler on the Roof, the main character, Tevye, pretends to have been awakened by a nightmare that he concocts to convince his wife to... Read more

Improvisational theater offers a unique way of approaching relationships—and psychotherapy—that's generous rather than closed, support rather than... Read more

“I don’t think I want to live if I have to go on feeling like this.” I hear this remark all too often from anxiety sufferers. They say it... Read more

Helping kids with ODD begins with getting past the many myths surrounding the disorder. Read more

Many therapists assume that if they help couples improve their relationships, the improvement will naturally lead to a rewarding erotic life. But what if... Read more

The child therapist approaches the child who can't play by introducing play activities one step at the time. Read more

1. Ride the Rhythms of Rest Fine-tune your circadian rhythms with exposure to morning light. Regularly engage in rest breaks and practices. Consider daily... Read more

"Many of my older clients and their family caregivers resist accepting help from others. How can I get them to receive the care they need?" Read more

Using one's own anger may be the key to success with difficult teen clients. Commentary by Janet Sasson Edgette Read more

Many clients believe that the therapy process all by itself will magically improve their lives and relationships. We must help them recognize that without... Read more

Prenuptials may seem unromantic and focused on worst-case scenarios, but they can clarify critical issues and avoid problems down the road. Read more

Despite marketing blitz, Viagra hasn't turned out to be the neat remedy for erectile dysfunction for men over 50 that was promised. Can therapists offer aging... Read more

Contrary to popular opinion, resilience isn't so much an innate quality as a feature of human connectedness. Read more

What to do when your teen clients give you the silent treatment. Read more

Once skeptical about the value of regularly seeking client feedback, therapists at a public agency become true believers. Read more

Shoplifting, now a worldwide epidemic, is curiously neglected by the mental health field. Read more

The phrase "in sickness and in health" is a hallowed part of our marriage vows for good reason. As human beings vulnerable to a wide variety of diseases and... Read more

The tragic confrontation at Waco, Texas, in 1993 taught us much about what to do to help traumatized children, and perhaps even more about what not to do. Read more