
Effective Treatments for Complex Clients
Melissa O’Neill
We now know that along with accompanying mood disorders, 78 percent of adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD) will develop a substance disorder or addiction at some point. Understanding and addressing this complex … Read more>>

Turning Reactivity into Equanimity
Kate Cohen-Posey
You may be excited about cutting-edge advances in brain research, but do you know how to translate them into practical methods that may reduce clients’ resistance, transform deeply disturbing emotions, and reinforce treatment interventions? … Read more>>

Technology in the Treatment Room
Sebern Fisher
Try as we might through talk and somatic therapies, it can be very difficult to shift the states of fear, shame, and rage that haunt clients with early developmental traumas. Fortunately, recent research … Read more>>

How Brain Science Can Inform Interventions
Frank Anderson
Therapists often get shaken and lose confidence in their approach when a client’s trauma response edges into seemingly uncontrollable extremes of rage, panic, or suicidal desperation. This workshop provides an essential road … Read more>>



The Path to Recovery
Michele Weiner-Davis
Without a concrete road map for helping couples heal from infidelity, it’s easy for therapists to get lost in the labyrinth of emotions. Using video clips, this workshop will provide a nuts-and-bolts, step-by-step plan … Read more>>



Co-occurring Disorders, Detransitioners, and Other Dilemmas
Margaret Nichols & Laura Jacobs
For even the most knowledgeable gender-affirmative therapist, work with transgender clients can sometimes be complex and difficult. There are parents who assume their gender-atypical child is transgender and prematurely … Read more>>


How to Help Our Clients Heal
Mary Jo Barrett
Exposing the family secret of incest is a transgression that makes everyone deeply uncomfortable, both in the families in which it occurs and for the mental health professionals who try to … Read more>>


Mastering the Art of Transformation
Tony Robbins
The results therapists get in their practices have more to do with what they’re willing to tolerate in clients than with their clients’ own limitations. The key to having more powerful impact with … Read more>>


Tools for Healing
David Kessler
While most therapists are experienced in exploring the pain of grief, their clients may be asking for a clear direction out of their pain. How does the therapist deal with questions of “When will this … Read more>>


A CBT Approach
Judith Beck
What do you do when clients become angry at you in session, fail to reveal important information, criticize you, demand special treatment, or remain silent? A common misunderstanding of CBT is that it ignores the … Read more>>


Invisible Barriers to Healing and Change
Anita Mandley
If you work with African Americans, Native Americans, holocaust survivors and their descendants, intergenerational poverty, or refugees, then whether you realize it or not, your work is being influenced by the legacies … Read more>>



Separating Myths from Reality
Frank Anderson
With so many controversies and contradictory research about the effectiveness of psychopharmacological interventions, it’s hard to know how to best work with your clients around the issue of meds. What are the new most … Read more>>


How to Engage Difficult People
Keith Miller
These days it seems there’s a jerk waiting around every corner—on the street, on your social media feed, even in your consulting room. Is there anything therapists can do for our clients and … Read more>>



Latest Perspectives for the Nonspecialist
Margaret Nichols & Laura Jacobs
Therapy’s old, paternalistic gatekeeping model for working with gender-transitioning clients is out. Today, our job is to provide gender-affirmative care both to adults and the increasing numbers of young people … Read more>>


Fostering Well-Being in a Digital World
Jonah Paquette
These days, we’ve become so attached to our digital gadgets, websites, and apps that it’s easy to lose sight of a fundamental question: aside from the immediate rewards they provide, are they … Read more>>


Uncoupling A Deadly Dyad
Martha Teater & Don Teater
The opioid epidemic is spilling into consulting rooms as more therapists encounter clients overusing these dangerous medicines to treat their chronic pain. Although behavioral interventions are the treatment of choice for … Read more>>


How We Can Promote Healing
Michael Alcée
How can we make sense of the polarizing culture confronting us in today’s political sphere, on the internet, and in our client’s everyday lives? As therapists, what can we do to reconcile and … Read more>>



How to Revive Erotic Passion
Michele Weiner-Davis
One out of every three couples struggles with mismatched sexual desire—a formula for marital disaster. When one spouse is sexually dissatisfied and the other is oblivious, unconcerned, or uncaring, sex isn’t the only … Read more>>


How to Embrace Somatic Wisdom
Daniel Leven
Too often our focus as therapists is on our client’s verbal narrative. What happened? Where? When? We tend to neglect another powerful storyteller: the client’s body. In fact, the body records our emotional … Read more>>


What We Know Now That We Didn’t Know Then
David Wexler
The field of partner abuse has always been riddled by controversy and misinformation, but recent research has deepened our understanding of what underlies abuse and how best to treat … Read more>>


New Approaches to Improving Outcomes
John Gottman, William Bumberry & Vagdevi Meunier
When couples come to us in pain, we’re often tempted to jump into treatment before really getting the systemic information we need to work most effectively. We may … Read more>>


How Do We See Our Role?
William Doherty, Kenneth Hardy, Esther Perel & Richard Schwartz
We therapists are certainly in the business of helping people change, but are we also invested in getting them to experience transformation? Beyond … Read more>>


Applying Dyadic Mindfulness in Your Work
Halko Weiss & Maci Daye
Parts 1 & 2
While traditional talk therapy relies largely on conscious awareness, research shows that explicit brain functions have only limited impact on our feelings and behaviors. In … Read more>>


A Step-by-Step Family Systems Approach
Scott Sells
Parts 1 & 2
It’s not easy when a therapist who’s meeting a traumatized family only possesses the tools to treat an individual child. Unfortunately, until now, systemic treatment for the traumatized family … Read more>>


A New Model for Private Practice
James Gordon & Sabrina N’Diaye
Parts 1 & 2
Increasingly, therapists are looking for alternatives to the office-bound rigidity of traditional private practice. This workshop offers a vision of practice, which includes a dynamic … Read more>>


How to Set Limits and Hold Them Accountable
Wendy Behary
Parts 1 & 2
Narcissists are notoriously difficult to work with. They can be arrogant, condescending, lacking in empathy, and so self-absorbed they seem incapable of forming genuine relationships with … Read more>>


Changing the Cognitions that Underlie Anxiety and Depression
Margaret Wehrenberg
Parts 1 & 2
Overactive brain circuitry can trap clients in cycles of rumination that keep them anxious and depressed. Letting go of ruminating worries, or banishing persistent thoughts, like … Read more>>


Bringing Transformative Life Lessons into Therapy
Lisa Ferentz
Parts 1 & 2
Whatever they’ve been through, all our clients retain an inner wisdom that can help lift them, like a pair of ruby slippers, up and out of dissatisfaction and … Read more>>


How to Engage, Understand, and Transform Male Clients
Terry Real
Parts 1 & 2
At no other time in history have men been so awash in mixed cultural messages and in such a state of transition, confusion, reactivity, and trouble. … Read more>>


Transforming Adversity into Learning and Growth
Linda Graham
Parts 1 & 2
Helping clients develop flexible and adaptive strategies for coping with both everyday disappointments and extraordinary disasters is at the heart of the therapeutic process. In this workshop, we’ll … Read more>>


Bringing Together Creativity and Problem Solving
Lynn Lyons
Parts 1 & 2
When doing therapy with children, we don’t often think of creativity and problem solving as equal partners. But when struggling families arrive at your office, it’s the immediate … Read more>>


Gentle Protocols for Rewiring the Brain
Courtney Armstrong
Parts 1 & 2
Hypnosis is making a comeback as research demonstrates its effectiveness in relieving anxiety, resolving traumatic memories, and reducing chronic pain. Find out why hypnosis is an effective tool … Read more>>


A Step-by-Step Approach to EFT
Susan Johnson
Parts 1 & 2
Even as advances in neuroscience and attachment theory have led to an increasing appreciation of the centrality of emotions in human relationships, it’s ironic that therapists are so often … Read more>>