Clinical Skills & Experience

A therapist works with a rabbi struggling with his mental health and developing false relationships with phone sex operators. Read more

How to move from the first phone call to booking an appointment Read more

When therapy stalls, it's usually time to investigate the undercurrents that nobody wants to talk about. Read more

The practice of therapy, for both therapist and client, is transformed when we connect with our fundamental core, a process that involves learning to listen... Read more

Two recent landmark overviews of research separate myth from reality in the treatment of substance abuse. Read more

When your day-to-day life keeps immersing you in the most burtal side of the human experience, you must learn what it means to resist. Read more

A man who grew up rescuing the women around him learns that there's no saving someone from sorrow. Sometimes the best we can do—all we can do—is offer a... Read more

If therapy is in some sense a confrontation in which you must come face-to-face with your disowned self, it's a real advantage to choose a therapist who's your... Read more

Thrivers are not Pollyannas. They are not blindly optimistic and are far from showing the often irritating feigned cheerfulness that can result from trying to... Read more

Everyone's reconciliation story is different, but everyone can reconcile in one of four ways. Read more

Here are the mistakes both beginning and experienced couples therapists commit, and how you can avoid them. Read more

After the publication of my book, 'I Don't Want to Talk about It,' I started getting calls from people around the United States who wanted help. Naming the... Read more

"I doubt that I would fit many people's image of a therapist who would violate sexual boundaries with a client. Before it happened, I certainly did not fit my... Read more

Acknowledging the complexities of real-life therapy Read more

How to get clients to do their homework assignments Read more

From the July/August 1997 issue Whenever I talk about my belief in the link between etiquette and successful psychotherapy, people exclaim “Manners?! You... Read more

From the May/June 1997 issue The Internet has entered the consulting room in ways that few therapists could possibly have anticipated. Today, Internet... Read more

Families facing a disabling illness often take refuge in a collective folie. Read more

In the "talking cure" of therapy, silence is usually associated with resistance, denial and shame. But silence may also be a recognition that ordinary language... Read more

In the minds of many therapists, the borderline diagnosis has come to be a code word for trouble. To get past our sense of helplessness with these clients, we... Read more

In the Middle Ages, Gregory Lynn would have been considered possessed by demons. Today, he's diagnosed with a profound neurochemical imbalance called... Read more

As today's hyperkinetic families struggle to create the semblance of a shared life out of the frantic and conflicting schedules of their members, the... Read more

Millions of learning-disabled adults rely on intellectual guerrilla tactics to survive. Read more

From the Networker archives, a therapist discusses homophobia within clinical practice. Read more