Love after lockdown 05/10/2022 For some couples, staying home together during COVID improved their sex lives. But many have reported the opposite experience. Now that re-entry is here, what are they to do?
Sex post-COVID 05/09/2022 Lockdown provoked a wide range of emotions among partnered people, including an increase in anxiety, fear, loneliness, boredom and frustration. It’s been hard on almost everyone. For one throuple, it provided a turning point.
Psychedelic therapy and racial trauma: Offering clients a deeper experience of healing 05/05/2022 Can psychedelic therapy offer a faster, deeper way to heal the intergenerational effects of racial injustice?
At Give an Hour, therapists extend their reach to veterans in need 04/18/2022 Since its founding in 2005, the Give an Hour organization has created a nationwide network of nearly 7,000 social workers, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, couples therapists, and substance-abuse counselors who’ve committed one hour a week to doing free counseling with members of the military...
Second adolescence: An alternative to the midlife crisis 04/18/2022 Instead of viewing midlife as a time of emotional unraveling, therapists can see it as an opportunity to help clients gain a fuller sense of purpose in life’s later stages.
Unhealed bodies: Looking at ancestral trauma 04/18/2022 Resmaa Menakem, author of My Grandmother’s Hands, discusses racialized trauma and a body-based path to healing.
Total liberation: A Buddhist approach to healing 04/18/2022 Harm reduction. Symptom management. Lowering “subjective units of distress.” Many of us have trained for years to achieve identifiable goals such as these, which fit nicely into case notes and satisfy insurance companies’ thirst for payment-validating change. Imagine, however, what therapy would...
Race and healing: Expanding the conversation (Panel 1) 04/10/2022 In part one of the two-part panel discussion on Race & Healing, "Starting the Conversation" begins a frank discussion among colleagues as they share their thoughts on addressing race—in and out of the therapy office—and what’s wanted and needed from white allies...
The year of canceled plans 03/30/2022 As all of us in the United States move into the coming months, a full year into COVID life, our personal losses will come into focus. If we don’t process them, they’ll be magnified. As therapists, we can be on the lookout...
Therapy’s psychedelic renaissance: A different kind of healing journey, Part 1 02/18/2022 In part 1 of this article, learn more about how psychedelic-assisted therapy is currently being practiced.