In The Therapy Room

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