Clinical Practice & Guidance

What do you do when your client comes to session with nothing to say? Longtime experts in the field offer how to get the conversation going. Read more

This month’s selection is from Lindsay Gibson’s Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents Guided Journal: Your Space to Heal, Reflect and Reconnect... Read more

Watch our interview with relationship expert Tammy Nelson on how ketamine is supercharging couples work. Read more

From his Symposium workshop, Bessel van der Kolk singles out the one question therapists should be asking their traumatized clients. Read more

Real world events are enough to cause anxiety in anyone. See how this therapist helped an anxious client see the world in a new way. Read more

Learning how to tune into the subtle shifts that are going on inside us all the time can open us to a wholeness that I call the Authentic Self. Read more

Advocates are calling on more therapists to consider how they can help people whose inclinations toward minors most of us find abhorrent. Read more

Psychedelics can show clients an alternative to their suffering—but so can many softer, gentler, more gradual approaches clinicians have been perfecting... Read more

When one partner is clearly in the wrong, being an impartial couples therapist can do more harm than good. Read more

In the midst of the psychedelic treatment revolution, have we forgotten about Stan Grof’s alternative to facilitating non-ordinary states of consciousness? Read more

Partners who associate love and intimacy with the painful family dynamics of their formative years can get stuck in a familiar bond that’s hard to shake... Read more

Trying on different personas can help clients step outside of their comfort zones and challenge their assumptions about themselves, others, and the world. Read more

The combination of therapeutic guides, ketamine, and community can open the door to deep, long-lasting relational change. Read more

Watch this clip of Dr. Ramani explaining the signs of narcissistic abuse in a relationship and what it looks like in your therapy office. Read more

Watch this clip of Dr. Ramani explaining how to help your clients who are survivors of narcissistic and build trust. Read more

Watch this clip of Dr. Ramani explaining what betrayal blindness looks like in relationships impacted by narcissistic abuse. Read more

Download a worksheet from this month’s selection: Nancy Johnston's "The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook." Read more

Sometimes, transformational growth happens when we least expect it. Read more

Making accommodations for socially anxious kids can be easier than getting them off their phones and out of their rooms—but it’s also dangerous. Read more

As the world embraces the theory of how trauma is captured in the body, clinicians are introducing clients to holistic healing techniques like sound baths and... Read more

In the last few decades, pets who offer company and calm have become therapeutic tools to help people manage their mental health. Read more

The person burdened with the decision of whether or not to end a marriage may not be the one who’s already left the marriage—emotionally or sexually. Read more

From their new book, Fight Right, relationship experts John and Julie Gottman explain why some couples conflict will never go away. Read more

Learn how to work with narcissists, bullies, avoidants and other difficult male clients with leading expert Terry Real. Read more

This month’s selection is from Mariel Buqué’s, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma. Read more

An experienced clinician shares how emerging therapists can get started in couples therapy. Read more

A therapist shows how allowing her clients to physically move their bodies in therapy helps them process their emotions. Read more

A therapist explains why it's so hard for partners to ask for what they need and how couples counseling can help. Read more

Janina Fisher explores how to help your clients heal the parts of self-hatred and treat attachment trauma. Read more

A clinical rupture becomes an opportunity to help a couple move beyond the pursue-withdraw cycle. Read more