In The Therapy Room

Jeff Auerbach discusses the differences between therapy and coaching. Read more

We frequently need to confront our clients, and putting aside a fear of confrontation—not to mention a fear of losing clients—means that we must risk the... Read more

Danie Beaulieu explains how panic can function as the voice of clients’ internal GPS, telling them when they are making a “wrong turn” in their lives. Read more

To work as a school social worker in the Bronx’s high-crime, low-income Hunt’s Point neighborhood is to become an expert at expecting the unexpected. Read more

James Gordon shares a technique he uses with clients to help them get out of hopeless thought patterns. Read more

To have real therapeutic impact, we need to help clients learn to relate to themselves and the world in entirely new ways. Read more

Inevitably, given their history of trauma, many borderline clients will trigger their therapists from time to time. But forgoing the urge to blame these... Read more

You never get a second chance to have a first session, so it's important to make the most of it. Read more

Diane Poole Heller, an expert in trauma and attachment, on helping clients find their way back to meaningful, safe relationships. Read more

Do you want to be right or be married? Okay, now pause, think, breathe . . . and choose between First Consciousness and Second Consciousness. Read more

At least 30 percent of couples coming to therapy have fundamentally different agendas about whether to try to save the marriage. If we’re ever going to... Read more

How the skills of the group therapist differ from those of the individually-oriented practitioner. Read more

While partners caught in the anger merry-go-round invariably blame the other, both typically pass the anger back and forth like a shared virus. Read more

Mindfulness offers tools for navigating the stormy seas of a troubled relationship. Read more

A middle-aged man facing the challenge of coming out explores the uncharted territory of a "mixed-orientation marriage" Read more

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

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

It's one thing to make change happen in a couples session; it's quick another to make those changes tick over time. Read more

Treating depression requires a commitment to working with mind, body, and spirit. 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

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

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

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