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Let’s unite to stand up to vested interests that have taken over the mental health system. Read more
To stay relevant in a changing world, we need to address the engagement styles of today’s prospective clients. Read more
Spitting in the Client's Soup
Don’t Overthink Your InterventionsIn our profession, it’s often more alluring to explore new gimmicks than to acknowledge that our success largely hinges on simple, commonsense factors. Read more
Narrowing the Gap
Striving for Honesty in the Therapy RoomAnticipating endings may encourage us to grasp the present with greater vitality. Read more
What clinical, ethical, and legal issues should we be considering as distance therapy becomes a more common form of practice? Read more
Seven Myths about Meditation
A One-Size Approach Doesn’t Fit AllSeven myths about meditation for clinicians to ponder. Read more
Knowing When to Push
Balancing Safety and ChallengeWhen a client has been sexually abused, it can be difficult to find the balance between creating safety and challenging old patterns. Read more
The Power of Commitment
Mindfulness Is Only the BeginningDespite its popularity among therapists, mindfulness is only a beginning in the process of change. Read more
Lost in the Maze
Finding the exit from OCDReview: The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in ThoughtFinding an exit from the bewildering maze of a disorder that confounds... Read more
Don’t Play It Again, Sam
Chance Encounters Can Change Our LivesSometimes chance encounters can change a life. Read more
VIDEO: Who Should You Talk To?
Janina Fisher on how and when to speak to a client’s “child part”When an adult is in your consulting room, it’s understandable if you use adult language and logic. But at certain points in the healing process, you may need... Read more
VIDEO: How to Help Clients Cope With Overwhelming Emotion
Joan Klagsbrun on Three Focusing Techniques That WorkIntense emotion in the consulting room can leave some clients overwhelmed; others shut down. Either response can derail your session. Now here’s some help... Read more
Meditation for Slow Learners
Mindfulness Goes Big TimeOver several thousand years, different cultures around the world have discovered how to nurture the seed of a specifically human capacity for mentally stepping... Read more
Mary Pipher on Leaving Our Biases outside the Consulting Room
Finding Respect for All ClientsFrom the moment I met the Correys in my waiting room, I was baffled about why they were together. Frank was tall, good looking and suave; Donna dowdy and... Read more
Larger than Life
Marianne Walters Was Family Therapy's Foremost FeministMarianne Walters didn't invent a brilliant new therapeutic paradigm, publish a large and magisterial body of research, or establish her own unique school of... Read more
Stronger Medicine
Anti-Depressants Haven't Made Therapy ObsoleteAmericans have a history of valuing quick-fix solutions to difficult problems. But the simplistic psychopharmacological approach to depressive disorders... Read more
The Anxious Client Reconsidered
Getting Beyond the Symptoms to Deeper ChangeAnxiety attacks anything and everything in a person's life. Sometimes the targets are the mundane activities that others take for granted. At other times, it... Read more
Letting Go of Our Facade
To Tell the TruthTherapists aren't supposed to discuss personal problems, or even acknowledge having any. While preaching congruence, who among us has never pretended fondness... Read more
Editor's Note - January/February 2015
Nurturing the seed of the specifically human capacity.Over several thousand years, different cultures have discovered how to nurture the seed of a specifically human capacity—a saving grace, as it were—for... Read more
The Mindfulness Explosion
The Perils of Mainstream AcceptanceBy replacing the exotic aura of spirituality with the language of science and a down-to-earth self-help approach, mindfulness has brought practices once... Read more
The Reluctant Guru
Staying in the Moment with Jon Kabat-ZinnA Conversation with Jon Kabat-ZinnSince he first developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in 1979, Jon Kabat-Zinn has not only become a key figure in... Read more
The Fiction of the Self
The Paradox of Mindfulness in Clinical PracticeIf we engage in meditation long enough, we discover that our sense of being a separate, coherent, enduring self is actually a delusion maintained by our... Read more
Creating a Sacred Space in Therapy
A Conversation with Jack KornfieldOpenness to the larger mystery of our lives can deepen the therapeutic encounter. Read more
Nature, Pixelated
How the Virtual World Is Rewiring Our SensesFor the first time in history, we’re mainly experiencing nature through intermediary technology that paradoxically provides more detail while flattening our... Read more
The mental health professions are now being forced to address the debate over marijuana legalization. Read more
The Anatomy of Procrastination
Helping the ADHD Client Make Changes StickClients with ADHD often know the coping skills that can improve their lives—the problem is applying them in daily life. Read more
Voices of Reason
Empowering clients to alter their internal experiencesThe case of a young man hearing voices shows how even problems that first appear to be extreme can be resolved by empowering clients to alter subtle aspects of... Read more
Reinventing Couplehood
Intimacy and Commitment in the Age of Consumer MarriageEsther Perel, a couples therapist whose TED talk has had more than 5 million views, believes that it’s time to challenge the mismatch between the romantic... Read more
Who Failed Robert Peace?
Even a Yale Degree Couldn’t Save HimWhy did a seeming rags-to-riches story of a young man’s triumph over poverty and the lure of the streets end so tragically? Read more
A Little Wiggle Room
It's Never too Late to Change Your StoryIt’s never too late to change your story Read more