Religion
Reimagining God in Therapy
When a Parent’s Critical Voice Is AlmightyCreating a safe space for clients to slowly re-evaluate some core religious teachings they’ve absorbed can be delicate and clinically necessary work. Read more
Three Blocks to Processing Trauma
Getting to the Pain Behind Spiritual BypassHow do you navigate toxic positivity, and other forms of spiritual bypass, when it’s a block to processing trauma? Read more
Treating the Trauma in Religious Trauma
Body-Based Healing for Faith-Based HarmHigh-control religions can disconnect people from themselves—and somatic therapies are the key to helping them heal. Read more
Helping Clients Find Rituals that Heal
Offerings from a Spiritual TherapistA Sufi therapist invites all clients to find their unique spiritual path through their current struggles. Read more
God, Grief and Therapy
The Quest for Meaning after LossRenowned grief expert David Kessler shares what can grief work teach us about the role of religious beliefs in therapy. Read more
Wrestling with a Daughter's Faith
An Agnostic Mother Learns the Challenge of True AcceptanceA family with stark religious differences finds its way. Read more
Spiritual Issues in Secular Treatment
When a Client Wants to Reconnect with Their FaithAre therapists equipped to support clients who want to reconnect with their spiritual faith? Read more
Leaving A High Demand, High Control Religion
What Is a Therapist’s Role?Therapists are well equipped to support clients ending unhealthy relationships, but what about the clients looking to end a relationship with an... Read more
Bringing Dreams into the Consulting Room
Helping Clients Awaken More Fully to the Life Around ThemBy Richard Handler -Â Throughout history, humans have tried to make sense of the baffling, nonlinear fleetingness of dreams. In A History of Last Night's... Read more
How Psychotherapy Lost Its Magick
The Art of Healing in an Age of ScienceStudies show more people pay for the services of advisors claiming special powers than see mental health practitioners. How can mentalists and mediums be... Read more
The Five Love Languages
Translating Intention into ConnectionAn interview with the author of The 5 Love Languages, a book that's sold over 8 million copies, explains its remarkable success. Read more
Talking with God
Religion as a Therapeutic ExperienceAnthropologist and author Tanya Luhrmann explains how many evangelicals experience the kind of support in their connection with God that others find in their... Read more
The White Tuxedo
Saturday Night Fever Comes to the Bar MitzvahSaturday Night Fever comes to the bar mitzvah. Read more
Coming Full Circle
Learning to Choose Where You LookUnderstanding your place in the great circle of life is often a matter of where you choose to look. Read more
Winter Passage
Acknowledging Spirituality in Life's Final JourneyDrawing on spiritual resources can ease the pain and sorrow of death for client and therapist alike. Read more
From the July/August 1994 issue THE PHRASE, “THE MELTING POT” ORIGINALLY CAME FROM THE title of a popular turn-of-the-century play that ended... Read more