Clinical Skills & Experience

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

A young woman who's on her own for the first time discovers the difference between being alone and being lonely. Read more

Poet David Whyte offers an idiosyncratic fusion of verse, myth, story, and personal charisma, demonstrating to audiences all over the world that psychology... Read more

Helping kids with ODD begins with getting past the many myths surrounding the disorder. Read more

Many clients believe that the therapy process all by itself will magically improve their lives and relationships. We must help them recognize that without... Read more

Contrary to popular opinion, resilience isn't so much an innate quality as a feature of human connectedness. Read more

A book by a respected researcher argues that telepathy and clairvoyance may be on a continuum with more common traits of intuition and empathy. Read more

Once skeptical about the value of regularly seeking client feedback, therapists at a public agency become true believers. Read more

Although he influenced a generation of therapists with his strategic methods, Jay Haley was always more at home as an observer of behavior than as an... Read more

Supervision that works requires understanding of how supervisees develop and mature in their clinical practice. Read more

The best form of risk management for your practice may be doing what you think is right. Read more

Shoplifting, now a worldwide epidemic, is curiously neglected by the mental health field. Read more

How does a therapeutic alliance become more than that? Read more

CBT offers a clinical toolbox that ensures that treatment never becomes merely unfocused chitchat. Read more

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

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

A therapist works with a rabbi struggling with his mental health and developing false relationships with phone sex operators. Read more

How to move from the first phone call to booking an appointment Read more

When therapy stalls, it's usually time to investigate the undercurrents that nobody wants to talk about. Read more

The practice of therapy, for both therapist and client, is transformed when we connect with our fundamental core, a process that involves learning to listen... Read more

Two recent landmark overviews of research separate myth from reality in the treatment of substance abuse. Read more

When your day-to-day life keeps immersing you in the most burtal side of the human experience, you must learn what it means to resist. Read more

A man who grew up rescuing the women around him learns that there's no saving someone from sorrow. Sometimes the best we can do—all we can do—is offer a... Read more

If therapy is in some sense a confrontation in which you must come face-to-face with your disowned self, it's a real advantage to choose a therapist who's your... Read more

Thrivers are not Pollyannas. They are not blindly optimistic and are far from showing the often irritating feigned cheerfulness that can result from trying to... Read more

Everyone's reconciliation story is different, but everyone can reconcile in one of four ways. Read more

Here are the mistakes both beginning and experienced couples therapists commit, and how you can avoid them. Read more

After the publication of my book, 'I Don't Want to Talk about It,' I started getting calls from people around the United States who wanted help. Naming the... Read more

"I doubt that I would fit many people's image of a therapist who would violate sexual boundaries with a client. Before it happened, I certainly did not fit my... Read more

Acknowledging the complexities of real-life therapy Read more