Clinical Practice & Guidance

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

The arrival of children in a coercively controlling relationship adds a complicated abuse accelerant. 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

As the bearers and protectors of people’s most intimate thoughts, journeys, and struggles, we notice the tremors of our time reflected in their fears, hopes... Read more

Four therapists share some of the most powerfully healing ways they show clients they care. 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

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

What if you and your clients could play back their everyday interactions outside of therapy, moment by moment, to uncover blind spots and reimagine family... Read more

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

The way neglect can shape a child’s brain is often misunderstood. Read more

A millennial therapist believes that for clients to find true freedom and meaning in the midst of crisis, we need to help them face inescapable questions about... Read more

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

Observe relationship expert Esther Perel in action as she helps couples navigate infidelity, incompatibility, and the impacts of childhood trauma. 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

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