In Consultation
Doing What's Best for Mom and Dad
Helping Contentious Siblings Find Common CauseA parent's failing health can stir up a hornet's nest of trouble among adult siblings. Read more
Honoring the Mission
Don’t Be too Quick to Ease the Caregiver’s BurdenWithout the emphasis at the outset on identifying, honoring, and sustaining the caregiver's mission, you're unlikely to ever progress. Read more
Old Habits Die Hard
Making couples therapy stickIt's one thing to make change happen in a couples session; it's quick another to make those changes tick over time. Read more
A Warm Bath for the Brain
Understanding oxytocin's role in therapeutic changeHow to get through to clients caught in fight-flight-freeze mode. Read more
Throwing Away the Script
Helping Trainees Trust Their GutA clinician explains how to help your supervisees practice therapy from the heart. Read more
Beyond Right and Wrong
Teaching Couples How To Embrace Fair-MindednessWhat do issues of fairness and relational justice have to do with psychotherapy? Read more
A Sea Change for Psychotherapy?
A Long-Awaited Bill Presents New Opportunities and ChallengesWhat does the newly passed mental health parity law mean for your practice? Read more
Enlisting the ODD Child
How to move beyond the power struggleHelping kids with ODD begins with getting past the many myths surrounding the disorder. Read more
The Economics of Romance
Pre-nups and other dirty wordsPrenuptials may seem unromantic and focused on worst-case scenarios, but they can clarify critical issues and avoid problems down the road. Read more
Tapping into Strengths
A systems approach to resilienceContrary to popular opinion, resilience isn't so much an innate quality as a feature of human connectedness. Read more
Mission Possible
The Art of Engaging Tough TeensWhat to do when your teen clients give you the silent treatment. Read more
Avoiding Clinical Drift
Learning how to use CARE with your clientsCBT offers a clinical toolbox that ensures that treatment never becomes merely unfocused chitchat. Read more
Riding the Waves of Grief
Practical Tools for Clients and TherapistsKumar answers a question about how to deal with clients who have suffered devastating losses. The first thing a therapist must do is to reassure the client by... Read more
Converting Calls into Clients
How to make the most of first contactHow to move from the first phone call to booking an appointment Read more
The Dog Ate It
When clients don't do their homeworkHow to get clients to do their homework assignments Read more