Clinical Practice & Guidance

Prenuptials may seem unromantic and focused on worst-case scenarios, but they can clarify critical issues and avoid problems down the road. Read more

Despite marketing blitz, Viagra hasn't turned out to be the neat remedy for erectile dysfunction for men over 50 that was promised. Can therapists offer aging... Read more

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

What to do when your teen clients give you the silent treatment. Read more

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

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

The phrase "in sickness and in health" is a hallowed part of our marriage vows for good reason. As human beings vulnerable to a wide variety of diseases and... Read more

The tragic confrontation at Waco, Texas, in 1993 taught us much about what to do to help traumatized children, and perhaps even more about what not to do. Read more

A professor skeptical of the clinical value of family therapy may be doing more to extend the legacy of systems therapy than anyone working with adolescents... Read more

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

A therapist helps his anxious clients discover that be not resisting what the present moment offers, they can find a way out of their suffering. Read more

And yet, I wondered, if we didn't have a theory of adult love and emotion, how could we truly understand what marriage was all about, let alone help couples... Read more

After studying 3,000 couples in the past three decades, researcher John Gottman and his wife Julie are combining his research and her clinical savvy in a... Read more

A Gottman Method therapist coaches couples to build marital friendships, rather than trying to engineer dramatic breakthroughs. Read more

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

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

Kumar answers a question about how to deal with clients who have suffered devastating losses. The first thing a therapist must do is to reassure the client by... Read more

Just because a couple is legally divorced doesn't mean that they're not emotionally still married. Read more

An erotic fetish disrupts a man's sexual history as well as his current relationship Read more

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

Among the more curious findings of the therapy-research literature is the failure to show that experienced clinicians get any better results than novices... Read more

Getting a depressed client mobilized to take the initial steps toward change can be the key to treatment. Read more

Therapy can too easily become reduced to two talking heads, spinning out tales. But treatment can be intensified and enlivened by tapping into our immediate... 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

Until recently, our understanding of "enlightenment" has been shrouded in spiritual hero worship. But we're beginning to see it as a thoroughly natural... 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

The Family Dialogue Project grew out of my attempt to help therapists, abuse survivors, and their families caught in the meshes of terrible conflicts from... Read more

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

As the digital revolution permeates and alters our lives, therapists are increasingly called upon to become the guides to a balance between the allure of... Read more