Twenty-five years after the publication of Pipher’s groundbreaking book Reviving Ophelia, the evidence suggests that many adolescent girls continue to struggle not just because of dysfunctional families, but because
Read MoreThe dominant paradigm for schizophrenia is that it’s a chronic brain disease with genetic origins, the signs of which are hearing voices and having hallucinations or delusional thought processes. Based on this
Read MoreWith all the hundreds of models and interventions practitioners use and the vast range of disorders they treat, attachment science offers therapists a coherent framework for understanding clients’ problems and leading them
Read MoreHelping clients develop strategies for coping with both everyday disappointments and extraordinary disaster is at the heart of the therapeutic process, regardless of your clinical approach. In this workshop,
Read MoreTherapists 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 MoreClients whose spouses need constant care because of a life-changing chronic illness, such as multiple sclerosis, dementia, or Parkinson’s disease, can feel that deciding to stay in or leave
Read MoreMany ancient cultures plumbed the stories of their warriors for wisdom in the face of unbearable pain and hardship. Today’s combat veterans continue to traverse harrowing landscapes of the heart and
Read MoreCouples often struggle in therapy with having too many issues to tackle in too little time. Luckily, you can help couples design their own treatment plan—right from the first session.
Read MoreToo 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 MoreChronically suicidal clients present a special kind of stress for therapists: there’s not only the emotional stress of working with their pain, but the additional burden of risk, responsibility, and anxiety. When should we
Read MoreEver enter the consulting room with a teen who doesn’t want to be there? If you work with teens, you know how tricky it can be to establish good communication
Read MoreIn today’s fraught romantic and sexual landscape, women are taught to view sexiness as a status to be earned, an indicator that society has deemed them conventionally attractive enough and
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