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Video August 28, 2024

Video Intervention Therapy

Using Client's Home Videos as a Clinical Tool

What if you and your clients could play back their everyday interactions outside of therapy, moment by moment, to uncover blind spots and reimagine family... Read more

Article August 28, 2024

The Esther Perel Phenomenon

Did Mental Health Become Entertainment?

Therapy is having a moment right now, with clinicians filling our social media feeds, bestseller lists, and concert halls. How did we get here? And where are... Read more

Article August 28, 2024

FREE Download - Sept/Oct 2024

Get this issue's free clinical tool to use with your clients

The FEELINGS - ACTIONS - SENSATIONS tool from Thomas Doherty helps clients reach desired emotional states Read more

Article August 28, 2024

“Reservation Dogs” Redefines Time and Trauma

A Binge-Worthy Series About Indigenous Healing

The stories of four teenagers in the Muscogee Nation illustrates the power of community, myth, and spirituality in healing trauma. Read more

Article August 28, 2024

The Hidden Trauma of Childhood Neglect

What to Make of Too Much of Nothing

The way neglect can shape a child’s brain is often misunderstood. Read more

Article August 28, 2024

Therapists Take the Stand

What You Need to Know about Being an Expert Witness

You know your clinical expertise is of value to your clients, but it can also be important for judges and juries in court. Read more

Article August 28, 2024

Love, Loss & Retraumatization

Preventing PTSD in Grief

A personal experience of excruciating loss becomes a hard lesson in the neuroscience of grief. Read more

Article August 28, 2024

The Amazon Package in Your Waiting Room

Unboxing Anger as a Path to Vulnerability

A client’s anger over his therapist’s environmental choices leads to an important turning point in their work. Read more

Article August 28, 2024

Is Existentialism the Approach of Our Time?

Awakening to Mortality and Responsibility in Therapy

A millennial therapist believes that for clients to find true freedom and meaning in the midst of crisis, we need to help them face inescapable questions about... Read more

Article August 28, 2024

Personal Boundaries vs. Environmental Concerns

An Interview with Nedra Glover Tawwab: When Differing Values Create Interpersonal Conflicts

Do interpersonal conflicts about environmental choices require a unique approach to boundary setting? Read more

Article August 28, 2024

Is Climate Change an ACE?

The Global Neglect of Our Children’s Future

How do we empower kids in the midst of big environmental challenges? Read more

Article August 28, 2024

Will Space Aliens Get Therapy?

A Cosmic Perspective on Home

Maybe it’s time for therapists and planetary scientists to hang out more. Read more

Article August 28, 2024

Guardians of the Aquifer

Moving from Despair to Advocacy

In the face of environmental anguish, a therapy icon turns to grassroots activism and finds hope, healing, and connection. Read more

Article August 28, 2024

The Restorative Power of Birding

The Wild, Beautiful Healers in Your Own Backyard

The mindful practice of birding can help us find balance in challenging times. Read more

Article August 28, 2024

A Global Case of Mistaken Identity

An Interview with Dan Siegel: Can Expanding Our Sense of Self Save Our World?

The way we think about connection and relationships can play a pivotal role in reverse-engineering the climate crisis— and therapists need to help. Read more

Article August 28, 2024

Awakening to Eco-Therapy

Practical Tools to Help Clients Unearth Hope in a Global Crisis

Opening up to the realities of climate change means opening up to feeling threatened. But while the situation is worse than many of us know, it’s also better... Read more

Article August 27, 2024

Editor's Note: September/October 2024

The Most Important Issue No One Wants to Read

In a recent meeting with several therapists, I shared my plans for upcoming magazine issues. When I talked about exploring new perspectives on coercive... Read more

Article August 21, 2024

Top 6 Books Therapists Recommend to Clients

From Self-Help to Graphic Novels

Therapists share the books they've been recommending to clients for inspiration, entertainment, and healing between sessions. Read more

Article August 12, 2024

Esther Perel on Working with Sexuality to Transform Relationships

And Busting Myths about Today’s Relationships

Observe relationship expert Esther Perel in action as she helps couples navigate infidelity, incompatibility, and the impacts of childhood trauma. Read more

Article June 28, 2024

Facing the Past as a Parent

How Our Worst Moments Can Stop Intergenerational Trauma

For one trauma therapist, parenting turned out to be the ultimate trial by fire—and a path to healing and wholeness. Read more

Article June 28, 2024

The Cultural Competence Dilemma

How Much Can We Rely On a Shared Identity with Clients?

Black Men Heal’s therapy outcomes are defying the odds—and raising questions about what it means to be truly culturally competent. Read more

Article June 28, 2024

“Gentle Parenting” a Fierce & Feisty Kid

When One-Size-Fits-All Scripts Don’t Work

The prescriptive, one-size-fits-all version of “gentle parenting” promoted on social media may work with many kids, but for parents of “big reactors,”... Read more

Article June 28, 2024

The Surrogacy Partnership

Navigating a Complicated, Intimate Arrangement

Building a trusting relationship with a surrogate requires a wide array of interpersonal and self-regulation skills— and can be the ultimate exercise in... Read more

Article June 28, 2024

Countering the Mommy Brain Stigma

The Benefits of Maternal Neuroplasticity at Work

Rather than a deficiency, “mommy brain” is an asset—and therapists can help their clients embrace it in the workplace. Read more

Article June 28, 2024

An Autobiography of Trauma

The Developer of Somatic Experiencing Releases His Own “Body Memory”

When the world-renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing begins feeling persistent disturbing sensations come up from childhood, he realizes it’s time to... Read more

Article June 28, 2024

Demystifying Walk and Talk Therapy

How to Get Outside With Clients

Are your perceptions of the risks and rewards of walk and talk therapy accurate? Read more

Article June 28, 2024

Boys Holding Hands

How Are We Policing the Beauty of Male Intimacy?

In "Close," director Lukas Dhont illustrates what can happen when society squashes the beautiful, empathic relationships that come naturally to boys. Read more

Article June 28, 2024

Vienna Pharaon on Family-of-Origin Work

The Importance of Looking back to Move Forward

With so many newer approaches focusing on here-and-now experiences, are we forgetting about psychotherapy’s foundation of exploring childhood wounds? Read more

Article June 28, 2024

Sexual Fantasies in Couples Therapy

The Art of Encouraging Erotic Imagination

It takes practice and courage to attune to a couple’s sensitivities and insecurities regarding sexual fantasies, but the payoff can be worth the clinical... Read more

Article June 28, 2024

The Parentification Trap

Growing Up Too Fast as a Child of Immigrants

How does it impact the development of second-generation kids when their sense of self is inextricably tied to meeting the needs of parents and elders? Read more

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