Professional Development
Building a practice and deepening your professionJanina Fisher on Treating the Parts of Attachment Trauma
Taking Apart Self-HatredJanina Fisher explores how to help your clients heal the parts of self-hatred and treat attachment trauma. Read more
Editor’s Note: January/February 2024
AI and the TherapistThis issue explores our work as therapists in the shadow of AI as well as how professional and personal lives collide. Read more
Ready or Not, AI Is Here
What If Therapy Bots Become Too Good?A clinician on the precipice of launching his own AI therapy bot—HIPAA-compliant, infused with personal warmth, and based on thousands of hours of therapy... Read more
Saying Goodbye to Work You Love
How Do Therapists Know When It's Time to Retire?The uniqueness of a psychotherapist’s job can make it hard to let go of. Read more
Are ACEs as Determinative as We Think?
Two Trauma Experts on Connection, Community, and the Tyranny of DiagnosisTwo leading trauma experts discuss the power of enduring relational work and how our current medical model creates a moral injury for therapists. Read more
Can AI Make Us Better Therapists?
Using New Technology for SupervisionAI is already being used to create treatment plans, track client change, and detect empathy. How else could it help therapists? Read more
Supporting Our Dreams as Therapists
A Conversation with Shadeen Francis and Alexandra SolomonWatch Shadeen Francis and Alexandra Solomon discuss how clinicians can work together to achieve their professional development goals. Read more
Am I A Good Therapist Yet?
Reconciling Professional Ideals with RealityLofty visions of our capabilities as therapists can fuel us early in our careers, but at some point, we have to reckon with the reality that we can’t help... Read more
Action Man Meets Therapy Guy
Switching Careers in MidlifeWhen a journalist and rock climber decides to become a therapist, he embarks on a new understanding of himself. Read more
Editor's Note: November/December 2023
Practical Advice for New TherapistsA recent survey shows that fewer than half of people who graduate from therapy training programs ever make it to licensure. Why are so many emerging therapists... Read more