
Professional Development
Building a practice and deepening your professionThe Coaching Edge
Helping Our Clients Take Their Best ShotThere are advantages to integrating an in-depth understanding of traditional therapy with a more coaching-oriented style—but therapists shouldn't lose sight... Read more
Swimming with The Sharks
From Therapist to Executive CoachA therapist from a working-class background finds himself on a surprising mid-career journey into the belly of 21st-century capitalism as an executive coach. Read more
While the “empty chair” was once identified as a popular Gestalt therapy technique, for many therapists today, faced with empty appointment hours... Read more
The Art of the First Session
Getting It Right From the StartYou never get a second chance to have a first session, so make the most of it. Read more
What if you could predict how well a client would respond to psychotherapy? What if a simple test could tell you whether a patient needed psychodynamic therapy... Read more
The American Psychiatric Association is scheduled to publish the much-delayed fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) by May 2013. With... Read more
With nearly eight million Americans affected by the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and tens of thousands of troops returning from military... Read more
- Mental health systems under stress - The timing of trauma treatment - The revolt against DSM-5 Read more
Building A Culture Of Excellence
Anatomy of an Agency that WorksWe all have stories about the bureaucracies that stifle clinical creativity and seem to exist primarily to generate meaningless paperwork. Here’s a tale... Read more
What Therapists Want
It’s Certainly Not Money or Fame!A close-up look at a 20-year, multinational study that captures the heart of therapists’ aspirations—and perhaps the soul of our professional identity. Read more
From Isolation To Connection
How to Create a Community of PracticeA modest proposal about how to get out of your cubbyhole, enliven your conversations with others in the field, and experience a new kind of professional... Read more
Mapping The Future
Symposium 2011 Charts Terra IncognitaEmerging from their monastic little cells, 3,000 psychotherapists had a schmooze-fest celebrating the power of face-to-face connection and joined forces to... Read more
The Road To Mastery
What’s Missing from this Picture?Therapists usually enter the field because they’re drawn to it and have innate capacities to do the work. But whether they excel depends largely on their... Read more
First Impressions
Getting Off to the Right Start is Crucial in TherapyThat first session with a new client can be crucial to the success or failure of treatment. Read more
Misstating the Obvious
The Pitfalls of Doing What Comes NaturallyWhile many therapists like to trust their intuition, research shows how often "gut instinct" can lead us astray. Read more
Planting Season
A Therapist Searches for a Simpler Life"I realized that I'd never succeed as a therapist here unless I loosened up my customary boundaries between my professional and personal selves." Read more
Big Squeeze
No research? No reimbursementA tipping point has been reached in the impact that psychotherapy research results, no matter of interest only among a small circle of academic, are going to... Read more
Facebook and Your Practice
Developing your social-networking savvyMore than a time-consuming diversion, Facebook can play a central role in marketing your practice. Read more
Throwing Away the Script
Helping Trainees Trust Their GutA clinician explains how to help your supervisees practice therapy from the heart. Read more
The Art of the Practical
The Triumphs and Limits of PsychotherapyFrom Freud to Zoloft, the story of therapy in this country has been the triumph of pragmatism over esoteric theory. Read more
Pink-Spoon Marketing
A Model for the Therapy Practice of the FutureThe old face-to-face service model for our practices is no longer in sync with social and cultural shifts. It's time to refocus on how to serve our clients... Read more
Breaking Through
Poet David Whyte Invites Us to the Edge of DiscoveryPoet David Whyte offers an idiosyncratic fusion of verse, myth, story, and personal charisma, demonstrating to audiences all over the world that psychology... Read more
How Being Bad Can Make You Better
Developing a Culture of Feedback in Your PracticeRegularly using a few simple feedback measures—plus paying close attention to your failures—can make you a better therapist. Read more
The Accidental Therapist
Jay Haley Didn't Set Out to Transform PsychotherapyAlthough 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
The 4 Stages of Supervision
Establishing a Lasting Relationship with Your SuperviseeEffective clinical supervision requires an understanding of how supervisees develop and mature. Read more
Effective Clinical Supervision
A new paradigm for growing oldSupervision that works requires understanding of how supervisees develop and mature in their clinical practice. Read more
The Ethical Eye
Don't Let "Risk Management" Undermine Your Professional ApproachThe best form of risk management for your practice may be doing what you think is right. Read more
Beyond Technophobia
Even you can use the internet to grow your practiceThe internet can be a phenomenal tool for marketing all types of practices in every part of the country. Even Luddites are finding that internet marketing can... Read more
Triage for Your Practice
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough PrioritizeMany therapists in once-thriving practices are reporting that these days, it's a battle to stay solvent. Read more
Embracing the Both/And in Therapy
Freeing Clients from Narrow ChoicesIn the fluid world of our practices, we must face the truth of opposing truths everyday. Read more