Techniques

What if you and your clients could play back their everyday interactions outside of therapy, moment by moment, to uncover blind spots and reimagine family... Read more

In the last few decades, pets who offer company and calm have become therapeutic tools to help people manage their mental health. Read more

Tapping, a simple tool for self-regulation, can be surprisingly fun and easy to teach clients. Read more

A look at the rise, mysteries, and controversies of Brainspotting, David Grand’s popular trauma-processing technique. Read more

Ron Taffel talks with Angela Diaz, Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Center, on how we can tailor our interventions to meet the unique needs of our young... Read more

We can’t guarantee certainty about anything, really. But some of us become haunted by needing to know for sure. We call this unrelenting need the Reassurance... Read more

It’s simply a way of talking about our internal sense of self, our inner strength and wisdom. It can help young clients down-regulate, guide them to inhabit... Read more

In our profession, it’s often more alluring to explore new gimmicks than to acknowledge that our success largely hinges on simple, commonsense factors. Read more

The case of a young man hearing voices shows how even problems that first appear to be extreme can be resolved by empowering clients to alter subtle aspects of... Read more

Ann Randolph talks about one acting technique in particular that can easily be incorporated into therapy sessions to help clients express their emotions. Read more

Diana Fosha uses an example from her own practice of how therapists can begin to catch incongruity Read more

David Burns talks about how to set an agenda for therapy. Read more

Elisha Goldstein asks clients what they need in tough moments and explains why it helps them learn to trust themselves. Read more

Judith Beck talks about an intellectual technique that she uses when doing childhood work with adult clients suffering from depression. Read more

David Burns discusses the key to reaching resistant clients—and it's not a new technique. Read more

Lisa Ferentz discusses how to effectively terminate therapy with a client. Read more