In The Therapy Room

Using AI art therapeutically is still a novel idea in the field of art therapy. For clients wary of traditional forms of creative expression, it allows them to... Read more

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

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

Support your BIPOC clients in gaining clarity about the frequency and types of discrimination they’ve experienced as they heal from racial trauma. Read more

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

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

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

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

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

Few things can spook therapists as much as emails from former clients requesting session notes for a legal proceeding, but handling these requests thoughtfully... Read more

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

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

Even experienced clinicians can start to feel lost when helping people untangle the psychological effects of coercive control. Read more

Why aren't we doing more to support male survivors of intimate partner violence? Read more

Is teaching partners to join forces against their stress where all couples work should begin? Read more

Just because a relationship isn't physically violent doesn't mean emotional abuse won't turn violent. Read more

Entitlement, the characteristic that best indicates when coercive control is narcissistically driven, makes treating perpetrators challenging—but not... Read more

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

When opening a relationship, the agreement-making process is far more important than the agreements themselves. Read more

We can use our discomfort with clients to learn how to help them. Read more

We wouldn’t be good therapists if we didn’t care about our clients. But beyond a warm greeting and an offering of effective clinical strategies, how do we... Read more

For therapists, doing something they love that challenges them—independent of their work with clients—can bring balance to their practice. Read more

It’s no surprise that a supervisory relationship can often be enlightening and steadying for both new and experienced therapists. But some therapists have... Read more

Do your therapy clients ask you for advice? We asked 5 top therapists what they do when clients say, “Just tell me what to do!” Read more

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

A personal experience of excruciating loss becomes a hard lesson in the neuroscience of grief. Read more

A client’s anger over his therapist’s environmental choices leads to an important turning point in their work. Read more

A millennial therapist believes that for clients to find true freedom and meaning in the midst of crisis, we need to help them face inescapable questions about... Read more

The mindful practice of birding can help us find balance in challenging times. Read more

Opening up to the realities of climate change means opening up to feeling threatened. But while the situation is worse than many of us know, it’s also better... Read more