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>>
