7 Ways Psychotherapists Get in the Way of Psychotherapy
If a psychotherapist is lifeless or their technique too technical, their efforts to help may be worthless.
The Unruly Path of Healing After an Affair
The way forward must be a path that moves a couple toward safer, softer, and more emotionally responsive interactions.
Wizardry: On Transformative Experience & Meaning-Making in Psychotherapy
While Freud analyzed drives and unconscious wishes, Frank Baum spun Dorothy into a Technicolor dream to help new friends find the brains, heart, and courage they thought they were missing and her own way home.
Two Roads Diverged from a Poem: Revisiting “The Road Not Taken”
The meaning in Robert Frost’s poem has been widely hijacked by shallow interpretation. In the actual poem, the traveler expressed sorrow that he could not travel both roads and confessed he could not see very far down either one.
Shhh! 3 Frequently Misinterpreted Introvert Behaviors
I listen more than I talk, and I think before I speak. I am generally quiet, and my silence can easily be mistaken for disinterest or worse.
Parenting with Discipline: Nurturing Two Fundamental, Equally Necessary Needs
10 Steps to Becoming a HIPAA Hipster
Scale of 1-10: how hip a HIPAA hipster are you?
Foster Kids: Lies, & Truth
We have been asking the wrong question.
You’re a kid. Go play!
We all—especially our kids—have a built-in need to be playful. As we lower our guards and heighten our senses, we all learn and grow.
Leap of Faith: Freedom and Responsibility on the Journey Toward that Self Which One Truly Is
Life is a journey with critical stages of choosing.
Person in the Center: Mental Health Care Transformation from Asylums to the ACA
Historical perspective reminds us how far we’ve come and how important our person-centered values continue to be as we shape the future of health care.
7 Mind Altering, Marriage Boosting Relationship Remedies (#5 never fails)
Couples must develop freedom within felt pushes and pulls of powerful forces in their relationships.
Person-Centered Process: The Soul of Therapeutic Change
We live in fear or dread or courageously in spite of them. Therapy stirs courage.
Parenting & the Sensory Ecology of Child Development
Children’s senses are faculties in an intricate ecology of sensation, perception, emotion, and more.
3 Reasons to Be the Change You Wish to Feel
Though it’s easy to become stuck in them, we need not play puppet to our feelings.
Intergenerational Flow: Family and the Forging of Identity
A family is a dominant maker of meaning in our lives.
No Holds Barred: The Irony & Dignity of Couples Therapy
As couples become disciplined in their conflict, their love grows.
The Crucial Choice Every Struggling Couple Must Make
A couples counselor can help facilitate healing in a relationship, but for healing to happen, both partners must be invested in taking steps toward each other.
3 Good Reasons to Believe Couples Therapy Can Help You
Some conflict in relationships is normal, but many couples get trapped in spirals of misunderstanding, judgment, and underappreciation. Therapy can help.
What is the Difference Between Counseling & Therapy?
Although some distinguish “counseling” from “therapy,” terms often used interchangeably, regulatory language does little to draw clear distinctions.
Seven Indispensable Parenting Skills
Parenting should stir confidence, connection, and character.
How Color and Culture Separate Us, and Why We Must Come Closer
Only in relationship can we transform our misperceptions.
Why Collaboration Is Essential In Mental Health Care
When mental health clinicians work together to achieve desired treatment outcomes, everybody wins. Here are some of the hallmarks of collaborative care.
Alcoholics Anonymous Taught Me A Vital Lesson
The day I visited an AA Meeting, I learned an important lesson on vulnerability and the life-giving power of humility.
Therapy is a Complex Emotional Experience
Therapists escalate distress by asserting too rigid a modality or too rational a mindset.
We Are Continually Being Shaped By What We Do
Each moment, little by little—and sometimes lot by lot—we are becoming what we do.
Hear Me, Love Me: Explosive & Withdrawn Behavior in Kids
Parenting children with problematic behaviors requires steady guidance and discipline but also a healthy dose of acceptance, empathy, respect, and love.
Parenting with Discipline: What Type of Parent Are You?
Anyone can discipline a child, but disciplined parenting can make you more effective in promoting desired behavioral changes as well as character growth.
Secondhand Hurt: The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children
The devastating effects of domestic violence exposure on children warrant closer examination—and action.
Be the Change You Wish to See in Your Marriage
Absent Fathers & the Implications for a Child’s Well-being
What Kind of Angry Are You?
Professionals on the Road Less Traveled
The Dynamics of Abuse Within Families & Relationships
Remembering Family Therapist Guru Virginia Satir
Breaking the Vicious Cycle: 5 Family Therapy Interventions
10 Essential Elements of Carl Whitaker’s Theory & Therapy
Experiential Therapy Versus Intellectual Nagging
A Story Unfolding: Changing the Paradigm for Trauma-Informed Care
Seven Principles for Responsive Parenting
More Playfulness Means More Togetherness
Navigating Impulse, Anger, & Overreaction in Relationships
Meet the GoodTherapy.org Topic Experts: Blake Edwards
Therapeutic Priorities in Marriage Therapy
Three Fundamental Layers of Therapeutic Vision
Rules of Engagement with Foster and Adoptive Children
The Teachable Moment: Becoming Emotionally Responsive in the Classroom
Learning itself is a neurobiological process, distinct from other aspects of personality. Yet, laying an effective foundation within a classroom community that optimizes learning is a psychological enterprise. 
