Childhood trauma leaves survivors with a fundamental mistrust in the safety of relationships. As adults, they develop defenses against …
401/501 – Healing Trauma in Couples Therapy <h3>Two Contrasting Approaches</h3>Read More
Childhood trauma leaves survivors with a fundamental mistrust in the safety of relationships. As adults, they develop defenses against …
401/501 – Healing Trauma in Couples Therapy <h3>Two Contrasting Approaches</h3>Read More
Emotionally Focused Therapy is a well-known approach to couples treatment. But how can it translate to work with individuals? This workshop introduces …
402/502 – Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals <h3>Expanding the Self</h3>Read More
More than one-third of Americans struggle with addictive behaviors, whether it’s sex, substance use, eating, or gambling. But misinformation and …
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that the therapist’s open, accepting, and compassionate presence is a primary key to successful treatment, yet …
404/504 – When the Therapist Gets Triggered <h3>Becoming the “I” in the Storm</h3>Read More
While EMDR is best known for the treatment of PTSD, it’s evolved into a comprehensive, attachment-based approach that addresses a broad range of …
405/505 – Relational EMDR as a Transformational Journey <h3>The Power of Attunement</h3>Read More
As psychiatry struggles to develop new, more effective treatments, clinical trials combining psychotherapy and the drug MDMA, also known as Ecstasy, …
406/506 – Psychedelics in Therapy <h3>New Ways to Catalyze Healing</h3>Read More
As ubiquitous as it is, the condition we misleadingly call ADHD is too often misunderstood, even by professionals. Rather than treating it as a …
407/507 – Rethinking ADHD <h3>A New Treatment Approach</h3>Read More
In clinical work, the “I” of the individual is inseparable from the “we” of context. Salvador Minuchin’s Structural Family Therapy (SFT) is built on …
408/508 – Structural Family Therapy <h3>Practical Applications for Todays’ Families</h3>Read More
What’s going on when your best efforts to establish a secure therapeutic alliance with a personality-disordered client aren’t working? Before you …
409/509 – Rethinking Personality Disorders <h3>New Approaches with Challenging Clients</h3>Read More
How much sex is too much, and how much is not enough? This workshop will uncover where lack of desire originates in sexless and low-sex couples and …
410/510 – Low-Sex and Sexless Couples <h3>The Rediscovery of Pleasure</h3>Read More
When you find yourself in the presence of a narcissistic client, especially in couples therapy, the impulse is often to run and hide. They can be …
Our field has come a long way in addressing the challenges of complex development trauma. Unfortunately, no matter how much progress …
Social psychologists have produced a vast body of research on priming—the powerful, largely unconscious process by which both words and nonverbal …
The acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) is an accessible and powerful mindfulness-based practice for cultivating self-compassion and …
415 – Practicing as RAIN Partners <h3>How to Awaken Compassion Together</h3>Read More
Over the past 20 years, more and more therapists have devoted themselves to exploring the relevance of neuroscience for the practice of psychotherapy. …
Online life can certainly be exciting and entertaining, but it also brings startling risks for neurobiological changes that can negatively affect …
417 – The New Social Anxiety <h3>Managing the Impact of Online Life</h3>Read More
There’s nothing “post” about the PTSD many people living in impoverished, urban communities experience daily. But effective interventions for these …
418 – Trauma in the Urban Community <h3>Exploring the Wider Context</h3>Read More
Couples often struggle in therapy with having too many issues to tackle in too little time. Luckily, you can help couples design their own treatment …
419 – Treating Couples Well <h3>Creating Collaborative Couple Therapy</h3>Read More
True or false: porn desensitizes people to genuine intimacy? Or wait: is porn use a normal, healthy expression of human sexuality? Although porn is a …
420 – New Perspectives on Porn <h3>Its Uses and Misuses</h3>Read More
Therapists are used to adolescents grumbling about their hovering, overinvolved parents. But these days, many have a new complaint: digitally …
421 – Parents These Days <h3>Addressing Technoference in Families</h3>Read More