Clinical Skills & Experience

How do we change our habit of defensive listening and make emotional presence our practice? Read more

A Sufi therapist invites all clients to find their unique spiritual path through their current struggles. Read more

Renowned grief expert David Kessler shares what can grief work teach us about the role of religious beliefs in therapy. Read more

How might a panoramic view of a relationship at the start of couples therapy change what clinicians focus on? Read more

What if wisdom—the elusive prize so many of us strive for—is actually a practical skill clients can gain in the course of everyday therapy sessions? Read more

Evidence-based tools can help us embrace our clients' feedback, greatly increase our cultural competence. and improve therapy outcomes. Read more

What do therapy and comedy have in common? Therapist and comedian David Granirer has spent over two decades helping aspiring stand-up comics—many in... Read more

Unless we want to let down our clients and lose public trust, therapists need to figure out how to navigate a politically polarized world. Read more

This month’s free practice tool is from David Kessler and offers clients a way to accept losses and express the unexpressed. Read more

Post-separation abuse can easily masquerade as a simple "bad breakup." Read more

How you document sessions with clients in emotionally abusive relationships can either help or harm them in family court. Read more

Even experienced clinicians can start to feel lost when helping people untangle the psychological effects of coercive control. Read more

Is teaching partners to join forces against their stress where all couples work should begin? Read more

Just because a relationship isn't physically violent doesn't mean emotional abuse won't turn violent. Read more

Entitlement, the characteristic that best indicates when coercive control is narcissistically driven, makes treating perpetrators challenging—but not... Read more

If a client can't stop talking about the plot twists of a banal TV show, should you try to change the clinical channel? Read more

When opening a relationship, the agreement-making process is far more important than the agreements themselves. Read more

We can use our discomfort with clients to learn how to help them. Read more

The more informed we are about narcissistic abuse and coercive control, the more we can support survivors of intimate partner violence on their road to healing. Read more

For therapists, doing something they love that challenges them—independent of their work with clients—can bring balance to their practice. Read more

It’s no surprise that a supervisory relationship can often be enlightening and steadying for both new and experienced therapists. But some therapists have... Read more

Therapists may not don red capes, or travel faster than a speeding bullet, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t superheroes in our own right. We occupy a... Read more

Do your therapy clients ask you for advice? We asked 5 top therapists what they do when clients say, “Just tell me what to do!” Read more

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

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

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

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

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

Are you matching your self-presentation and efforts with your clients' emotional capacity to respond? Read more

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