In The Therapy Room

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

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

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

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

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

Facing the challenge of working with a dissembling adolescent in a blended family means changing the "official story" of the problem. Read more

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

Esther Perel explains why new parents need to prioritize their sex lives instead of leaving at the bottom of the to-do list. Read more

From July/August 2006 issue, a therapist shares how to help adult clients with ADHD be successful in therapy. Read more

A veteran therapist draws from her years of clinical practice and personal experiences to meet every teenage client where they are. Read more

Kumar answers a question about how to deal with clients who have suffered devastating losses. The first thing a therapist must do is to reassure the client by... Read more