Clinical Skills & Experience

Dan Siegel tells the story of his 92-year-old client's journey to discover his emotions for the first time through therapy. Read more

Kenneth V. Hardy uses basketball to connect with detained youth, transforming resistance into teamwork and discovering life-changing purpose. Read more

Lisa Ferentz uses creative therapeutic intervention to turn a client's expensive gift into a powerful lesson in self-worth and compassion. Read more

Michele Weiner-Davis's personal journey through depression reveals how love, hope, and human connection can be powerful medicine for healing. Read more

Lynn Lyons shares how vulnerability and genuine connection helped an anxious teen overcome social anxiety and reclaim his life. Read more

How can therapists stay authentic and empathetic when working with clients whose values deeply conflict with their own? Read more

What's really happening in "quiet" Brainspotting sessions? Read more

It can be embarrassing and a little scary when we find ourselves attracted to a client. What’s the best way to handle this surprisingly common clinical... Read more

Here are six hot takes on what’s in store for clinicians in 2026, from Matthias Barker, Linda Thai, Chinwé Williams, and more. Read more

Poetry has the power to move clients and therapists from cognition to resonance—and support rapid transformation. Read more

Many clients misuse clinical terms to win arguments and avoid blame. How do we support them without invalidating them? Read more

AEDP developer Diana Fosha and addictions specialist Claudia Black reveal how they’d work with a client struggling in a new relationship. Read more

If therapists can become culturally competent in the world of dating apps, exploring our clients’ profiles is an opportunity to deepen therapy. Read more

No one knows better than therapists that intimacy is a fundamental human need. In this issue, we explore bold, new perspectives on the current "intimacy... Read more

As a field, in our efforts to be neutral and nurturing, have we been unwittingly recreating the culture’s individualistic bias? Read more

Embracing friendship therapy as fully as we do couples or family therapy might help us shift friendship to its rightful place of clinical importance. Read more

Check out the January/February issue of the digital magazine on the browser of your favorite device—and dive in from cover to cover! Read more

Therapists working with adolescents and teens don't need to be fluent in Gen-Alpha slang: they need to be curious without being theatrical. Read more

For adult children of addicts who've distanced themselves from their painful pasts, interventions that require them to show rather than tell can be... Read more

Many therapists confuse sacrifice with service. But when the impulse to care crosses into self-abandonment, no one wins. Read more

Parental guilt is often misunderstood by clinicians. The Change Triangle can bring this tricky emotion out into the open and help people work through it. Read more

Sex therapist Tammy Nelson and trauma specialist Frank Anderson take different paths to empower a client struggling with intimacy. Read more

Across all our therapeutic modalities, there are elements that most effectively create change. What do these elements have in common, and how can you integrate... Read more

Of all the David-and-Goliath matchups in psychotherapy, few have had as many twists and turns as the one unfolding between energy psychology and the APA’s... Read more

Check out the November/December issue of the digital magazine on the browser of your favorite device—and dive in from cover to cover! Read more

This year has felt different. There's been a lot of dysregulation in the air, and therapists are feeling it alongside their clients. Why are we feeling so... Read more

When it comes to adoption, families need preparation that's trauma-informed and racially literate. Read more

In therapy, healing is a living process that happens in real time through the courage to stay present and the therapeutic alliance. Read more

Genetic testing has led to shocking "DNA discoveries"—secrets unburied, followed by pain, grief, and trauma. Here's how therapists can help. Read more

When we’re tormented by resentment toward someone we believe has wronged us, forgiveness can be a form of self-care. Read more