Clinical Skills & Experience
Can True Love Be Designed?
Transforming How We Experience and Express LoveDiscover two models of love and how distinguishing between them can help therapists support clients in designing a conscious relationship. Read more
7 Benefits of Concurrent Couples Therapy
Revisiting an Underappreciated ApproachConcurrent couples therapy has advantages over conjoint therapy that get overlooked by many therapists. Discover 7 ways concurrent couples therapy can improve... Read more
Supercharging Art Therapy with AI
A Surprising New Tool to Enhance Trauma HealingUsing 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
The Client Who's Tried Everything
ACT and ISTDP Tackle One Challenging CaseHow 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
Breaking the Cycle of High-Functioning Codependency
When Helper’s High Goes Too FarMany therapists believe their intense care and concern for clients is a form of selfless love. Maybe it’s time to rethink that. Read more
Racial Trauma Assessment Tool
The Trauma Symptoms of Discrimination Scale (TSDS)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
Reimagining God in Therapy
When a Parent’s Critical Voice Is AlmightyCreating 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
Three Blocks to Processing Trauma
Getting to the Pain Behind Spiritual BypassHow do you navigate toxic positivity, and other forms of spiritual bypass, when it’s a block to processing trauma? Read more
An Unlikely Companion to EFT
How Can Psychedelics Enhance the Work?Talk therapy can help couples understand their negative patterns cognitively. Adding psychedelics to the work can help them feel it. Read more
Treating the Trauma in Religious Trauma
Body-Based Healing for Faith-Based HarmHigh-control religions can disconnect people from themselves—and somatic therapies are the key to helping them heal. Read more
The Spiritual Therapist
Healing and the Secular PriesthoodMost therapists don’t shy away from discussing charged topics like sex and drugs. But religion and spirituality? That’s a different story—one that a... Read more
Discerning Three Types of Anxiety
Improving Outcomes for Anxious ClientsWe can all get caught up in their “anxiety whirlwind” of dysregulation, distorted thoughts, and defensiveness. Understanding some of the most common ways... Read more
Rethinking Insecure Attachment
From a Fixed Model to a Fluid SpectrumA new framework for visualizing attachment turns a potentially pathologizing concept into a friendly clinical tool. Read more
When Clients Ask for Session Notes
Tips for Navigating a Legal Gray ZoneFew 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
Listening as the Ultimate Spiritual Act
From Passive Process to Active PracticeHow do we change our habit of defensive listening and make emotional presence our practice? Read more
Helping Clients Find Rituals that Heal
Offerings from a Spiritual TherapistA Sufi therapist invites all clients to find their unique spiritual path through their current struggles. Read more
God, Grief and Therapy
The Quest for Meaning after LossRenowned grief expert David Kessler shares what can grief work teach us about the role of religious beliefs in therapy. Read more
Taking the Blindfold off Couples Therapy
A Tool for Cultivating Emergent LoveHow might a panoramic view of a relationship at the start of couples therapy change what clinicians focus on? Read more
Teaching Practical Wisdom
Helping Clients Build Up Their Own Inner ResourcesWhat 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
How Do You Know if You're a Culturally Responsive Therapist?
Measurement-Based Care with Diverse ClientsEvidence-based tools can help us embrace our clients' feedback, greatly increase our cultural competence. and improve therapy outcomes. Read more
The Funny Therapist
Dismantling Stigma, One Joke at a TimeWhat do therapy and comedy have in common? Therapist and comedian David Granirer has spent over two decades helping aspiring stand-up comics—many in... Read more
4 Things Therapists Should Consider About Political Polarization
Maintaining Client Trust in a Divided NationUnless we want to let down our clients and lose public trust, therapists need to figure out how to navigate a politically polarized world. Read more
FREE Clinical Worksheets
Tools for Releasing Pain and Remembering LoveThis month’s free practice tool is from David Kessler and offers clients a way to accept losses and express the unexpressed. Read more
Facing Post-Separation Abuse
Sometimes the Breakup Isn't the EndPost-separation abuse can easily masquerade as a simple "bad breakup." Read more
When Your Client Goes to Family Court
The Truth about Documenting SessionsHow you document sessions with clients in emotionally abusive relationships can either help or harm them in family court. Read more
When Burnout Threatens Therapy with Survivors
Cultivating Your Stamina as a TherapistEven experienced clinicians can start to feel lost when helping people untangle the psychological effects of coercive control. Read more
Soothing Dysregulation in Couples Therapy
The One Thing We Should All Do FirstIs teaching partners to join forces against their stress where all couples work should begin? Read more
Assessing the Physical Dangers of Emotional Abuse
When to Create a Safety PlanJust because a relationship isn't physically violent doesn't mean emotional abuse won't turn violent. Read more
Healing the Covert Narcissist
When Early Trauma Meets EntitlementEntitlement, the characteristic that best indicates when coercive control is narcissistically driven, makes treating perpetrators challenging—but not... Read more
When Your Client Prefers Chitchat
Finding Meaning in Unlikely PlacesIf 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