Clinical Skills & Experience

Let's face it: love means something quite different to men and women. A look at other species of social mammals offers some remarkable insights into the... Read more

Gender shapes relationship from the very first moment therapist meets client, especially when the client is male and the therapist is female. Read more

Although therapy is often considered a profession dominated by the female sensibility, a lifelong gym rat, much practiced in the arts of masculine aggression... Read more

Some practical guidelines for handling confrontive and critical clients. Read more

Effective work with sex addicts must address deep-seated attachment wounds. Commentary by Joe Kort. Read more

A young woman discovers the world of the senses. Read more

Strategic therapy is less about technique than a search for the information that'll illuminate the solution to your client's problem. Read more

Modern therapy has given scant attention to morally elevated emotions like awe, gratitude, and admiration, resulting in a skewed picture of how people actually... Read more

To go through life with Asperger's as an adult is like walking onto a stage and being the only actor who doesn't know the lines or plot. But as the condition... Read more

More and more chronic pain patients are being referred to therapists after their physicians conclude that they show every appearance of being healed. Read more

A client's unexpected announcement makes a therapist confront her illusions of invulnerability. Read more

Therapists need to get beyond the common misconception about Alcoholics Anonymous. Read more

In a memorable scene in Fiddler on the Roof, the main character, Tevye, pretends to have been awakened by a nightmare that he concocts to convince his wife to... Read more

We need Big Moments to move clients out of their ruts, their numbness, and their stuck places. But the Big Moment needs many little moments to make it stick. Read more

Improvisational theater offers a unique way of approaching relationships—and psychotherapy—that's generous rather than closed, support rather than... Read more

A young woman who's on her own for the first time discovers the difference between being alone and being lonely. Read more

Poet David Whyte offers an idiosyncratic fusion of verse, myth, story, and personal charisma, demonstrating to audiences all over the world that psychology... Read more

Helping kids with ODD begins with getting past the many myths surrounding the disorder. Read more

Many clients believe that the therapy process all by itself will magically improve their lives and relationships. We must help them recognize that without... Read more

Contrary to popular opinion, resilience isn't so much an innate quality as a feature of human connectedness. Read more

A book by a respected researcher argues that telepathy and clairvoyance may be on a continuum with more common traits of intuition and empathy. Read more

Once skeptical about the value of regularly seeking client feedback, therapists at a public agency become true believers. Read more

Although he influenced a generation of therapists with his strategic methods, Jay Haley was always more at home as an observer of behavior than as an... Read more

Supervision that works requires understanding of how supervisees develop and mature in their clinical practice. Read more

The best form of risk management for your practice may be doing what you think is right. Read more

Shoplifting, now a worldwide epidemic, is curiously neglected by the mental health field. Read more

How does a therapeutic alliance become more than that? Read more

CBT offers a clinical toolbox that ensures that treatment never becomes merely unfocused chitchat. Read more

EMDR helps a young Irag War vet and his wife emerge from the nightmare of his war experience. Read more

From July/August 2006 issue, a therapist shares how to help adult clients with ADHD be successful in therapy. Read more