Helping Millennials Navigate the Brave New World of Intimate Relationships
Alexandra Solomon
Modern love presents us with a dizzying array of choices and challenges, but young adults in particular are navigating a brave new world of intimate relationships. Sex education … Read more>>
Unexplored Issues in Therapy
Kirsten Lind Seal
In the United States, 1 in 6 new marriages is interethnic or interracial. Today’s therapists need to be equipped to help cross-cultural couples not only navigate the usual intimacy and communication concerns, but … Read more>>
Dealing with the “if only’s”
David Kessler
As a result of the opioid epidemic, the United States saw its largest recorded increase in overdose deaths last year, which is now officially the leading cause of death among adults under 50. … Read more>>
Addressing the Stresses of Late-Life Marriage
Barry Jacobs & Julia Mayer
While there’s an expectation that marital happiness will increase in the last third of life, when many couples are freer of children and family responsibilities, the reality is more … Read more>>
Widening the Frame
Patrick Dougherty
Our growing understanding of intergenerational and collective trauma is challenging therapists’ standard treatment methods. Recognizing that some trauma can be inherited—or be shared by groups, communities, ethnicities, and nationalities—can open up new avenues of healing, … Read more>>
How to Match Clients with the Right Methods
Amy Weintraub
Have you ever had clients try a mindfulness exercise that made them more anxious, or get emotionally flooded when you asked them to breathe deeply? What about clients who are … Read more>>
Mindfulness for Teens and Young Adults
Gina Biegel
As they try to navigate the demands of school, online social lives, and daily pressures, many teens and young adults today are worried, in pain, angry, and even out of control. In … Read more>>
Helping Clients Embrace a More Embodied Life
Linda Graham
There’s no question that our near constant use of the internet, apps, and texting have transformed how we relate to each other. The ubiquity of our devices and the huge bite … Read more>>
Its Uses and Misuses
Ian Kerner
True or false: porn desensitizes people to genuine intimacy? Or wait, true or false: porn use is a normal, healthy expression of human sexuality? Porn is a confusing and polarizing topic that can easily … Read more>>
How to Safely Navigate Emotional Storms
Deb Dana
When life—and therapy—brings scary moments, it’s the body’s autonomic nervous system that takes action. Polyvagal Theory has revolutionized our understanding of both how this system works, and how to create safety and … Read more>>
How Young Adults Are Changing the Therapy Relationship Forever
Ron Taffel
Millennials are coming into therapy with challenging new expectations about the therapeutic relationship. These 18- to 35-year-olds—with their no-holds-barred self-expression, staunch belief in collaboration, attunement to power-based microaggression, and … Read more>>
What We Know Makes Couples Therapy Work
John Gottman, Julie Gottman, William Bumberry & Vagdevi Meunier
In recent years, research has identified key, measurable elements of happy and stable long-term relationships. They include trust, attunement, listening compassionately and nondefensively within … Read more>>
Beyond Masters and Johnson
Ian Kerner
Effective sex therapy goes beyond what happens in the consulting room and requires behavioral interventions that clients can work on between sessions. Although “homework” is a regular part of sex therapy, clinicians’ standard packages … Read more>>
Helping the Rejected Parent Make Things Right Again
Ron Taffel
Well-meaning parents who’ve been rejected by their children of all ages are often in tremendous pain. While they may be outwardly hurt and angry, internally they’re silently wrestling with shame … Read more>>
Hidden Problems and Effective Solutions
Margaret Wehrenberg
High-functioning autism isn’t always easy to spot. But when clients who enter therapy for panic, anxiety, or social phobia fail to respond to standard treatment protocols, autism might be a complicating factor. Often … Read more>>
A Therapist’s Guide to Modern Love, Sex, and Identity
Signe Simon & Simone Humphrey
Many millennials are choosing to ditch gender identifiers like male and female, and shed labels like single, taken, gay, or straight. … Read more>>
The New Neuroscience of Pain
Howard Schubiner
Nearly half of all clients in therapy have physical pain, yet for the majority of these individuals, their pain has no clear medical cause. This is particularly true for those with back and … Read more>>
Engaging the Wisdom of the Body
Joan Klagsbrun
There’s a resource, implicit in each of us, that has the capacity to accelerate the healing process and make therapy more effective. Focusing invites clients to pause and access their “felt sense,” … Read more>>
How Therapist Self-Disclosure Can Engage Male Clients
David Wexler
If you’ve ever worked with men, you know how intensely sensitive they can be to shame and feelings of incompetence. If therapists can’t de-shame the therapeutic experience, men won’t stay for … Read more>>
Gratitude and Meaning in Caring for Aging Parents
Barry Jacobs & Julia Mayer
While caring for aging parents is often portrayed as a physical, psychological, and financial burden, there’s a growing body of research suggesting that caregivers can derive important … Read more>>
Facing Our Late Career Challenges
David Treadway
As they move through the more advanced stages of their careers, senior therapists can enhance their work by exploring the impact of their own aging on their lives and clinical perspective. In this … Read more>>
Cooperation without Punishment
Laura Markham
Clients challenged by their children often resort to old-fashioned reward and threat strategies like timeouts, sticker charts, and consequences. But the best parenting tool is always the relationship with, not control over, the … Read more>>
A Nonverbal Approach
Janina Fisher
High-conflict couples can stymie even the most experienced therapist, turning the office into a verbal boxing ring, and us into referees or speechless bystanders. When our usual ways of working don’t slow the battle, much … Read more>>
Mindfulness, Psychotherapy, Identity, and Love
Jack Kornfield & Trudy Goodman
Supported by neuroscience research, mindfulness practice has demonstrated its ability to ease stress, control anxiety and depression, and improve cognition, focus, and memory. As its reach and influence has increased, … Read more>>
Four Core Skills
Deany Laliotis
Parts 1 & 2
Underlying all the techniques and methodologies for treating trauma today is a core set of fundamental skills that determine a clinician’s effectiveness in this challenging arena of practice. This workshop will … Read more>>
An Introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy with Families
George Faller & James Furrow
Parts 1 & 2
By zeroing in on underlying attachment needs, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) offers a powerful process for transformational change. This workshop will show … Read more>>
The Nurtured Heart Approach
Howard Glasser
Parts 1 & 2
Too often therapists working with difficult or intense children inadvertently reward a child’s negativity by increasing their own energy level in countertherapeutic ways. They may also lower their own energy … Read more>>
The Art and Science of Memory Reconsolidation
Bruce Ecker
Parts 1 & 2
There’s a world of difference between liberating, lasting therapeutic breakthroughs and incremental changes that are readily undone by relapses. What controls that difference is memory reconsolidation, the … Read more>>
A Somatically Based Resource
Nancy Napier
Parts 1 & 2
We’ve all internalized rules growing up that defined who and what we could be. Attempts to break these largely unconscious rules can elicit powerful physical and psychological survival responses that … Read more>>
A Crash Course in the Kids’ Skills Method
Ben Furman
Parts 1 & 2
If you’ve been under the impression that therapy with children and teenagers always needs to be serious business, be prepared to change your mind. In this … Read more>>
Working with the Mixed-Agenda Couple
William Doherty
Parts 1 & 2
It’s not easy when a couple enters treatment unsure about whether to dissolve a marriage or try to save it—especially when each partner leans in a different direction. These … Read more>>
How to Get Unhooked
Martha Straus
Parts 1 & 2
To work with troubled and traumatized adolescents, it’s crucial for therapists to first foster their own capacity for self-awareness and self-regulation. It’s not easy, especially when our young clients’ extreme … Read more>>
What to Do When Things Get Messy and Uncomfortable
Mary Jo Barrett & Linda Stone Fish
Parts 1 & 2
When working with trauma cases do you see clients go into flight, fight, and/or freeze? Do they yell at you, … Read more>>
Going Deep with Troubled Clients
Terry Real
Parts 1 & 2
The secret to helping couples have a powerful, transformative experience in therapy is to get them to deeply explore—while in each other’s presence—their own character structure and family-of-origin trauma. … Read more>>
A Game Show Approach
Clifton Mitchell
Parts 1 & 2
We all want to do what’s ethical, and get the CEs to boot, but slogging through most ethics courses can be a tiresome bore. Not this time! This workshop (back … Read more>>
Breaking Eggshells
Anita Mandley
Parts 1 & 2
The disturbing undercurrent of white supremacists emboldened by recent national events show us that stereotypes and tensions about race still pervade much of American society. But even though we may want to … Read more>>
Leading Clients to Self-Leadership
Richard Schwartz
Parts 1 & 2
Healing is a word derived from the German hailjan, meaning “to make whole.” To truly heal isn’t easy, since it involves reconnecting with polarized and often volatile subpersonalities, or … Read more>>
Rethinking Infidelity & Pathways to Intimacy
Esther Perel
Parts 1 & 2
Conventional practices say therapists should insist upon full disclosure after an affair, and view all infidelity as a traumatic event. But affairs can also act as a powerful … Read more>>
