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Jennifer Bullock, M.Ed., M.L.S.P., LPC – Telling the truth is dangerous to your mental health

March 10, 2015 Editor 0

With all the hubbub swirling in the media these days about truth telling, embellishing, and credibility, I thought I would share my motto: I’m pro-lying. A group therapy client recently confessed that, while at a […]

Iva Tarle – How is Mindfulness Used by Psychiatrists?

August 15, 2014 Editor 0

Techniques for meditation are many and so diverse that to choose the right one can sometimes be overwhelming. Mindfulness is a meditation technique that draws from the Buddhist tradition and is in a way a return […]

The Healing Power of Fiction

August 3, 2014 admin 3

Interview with: Lucy Horner, author of Tolstoy Therapy: A Fiction Prescription Q: Your book, Tolstoy Therapy: A Fiction Prescription, is a beautiful narration of both your own and other people’s healing experiences through the technique […] […]

Family Mirror

August 3, 2014 Suzanne Montalalou 3

After my husband passed away twelve years ago, I knew I needed help. I was left alone to raise two children who were five and seven years old. I began counseling to help me work […] […]

Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy: Healing Past Injuries, Pain, and Mind-body Conditions

August 3, 2014 admin 3

“Do you have any residual pain from work, automobile, or surgery-related injuries?” This question on my client intake form can lead me to aspects of pain and healing that I have encountered, but have not […] […]

Intuitive Flow Through Artwork

August 3, 2014 Giora Carmi 0

In 2002, I went back to school for Art Therapy at NYU. I immediately saw that basing art therapy on psychoanalysis, which is the common practice, was a mistake. Psychoanalysis is basically a thinking system. […] […]

Radical Therapy

August 3, 2014 Alyssa Siegel 0

I was taught that as a counselor, I should never let my personal values enter into therapy. To maintain a veil of neutrality. The idea behind this approach is, for the most part, sound. We […] […]

Phone Therapy and Other Poems

August 3, 2014 Ellen Bass 6

We’re delighted to feature in this issue four poems by the award-winning poet Ellen Bass. In the below bouquet of poems, Bass explores the experiences of witnessing and intervening in the lives of those around […]

Formed by Trauma: The Power of the Repeated Message

August 3, 2014 admin 5

Sam, a seven-year-old child, is playing with his five brothers and sisters in the garden while his mother prepares food in the kitchen. When the children come inside to eat, they notice that their younger […] […]

Gaining Perspective: Animal-Assisted Therapy as an Alternative Approach for Sexual Abuse Victims

August 3, 2014 admin 2

Today I am twenty-three years old, but I was twenty-one years, two months, and twelve days old when I was raped. It happened on a regular afternoon in my hometown, back in a country that […] […]