Practice Wisdom

In CBT, identifying, questioning, and challenging your thoughts is complicated by the fact that a lot of thinking happens below the surface ...

We all develop beliefs about ourselves, other people, and the world we live in, beginning in early childhood. Some of these beliefs are so f...

If validation is one of the core skills for fostering a therapeutic alliance, it may be even more important for clients who grew up in an in...

Supervision is at the heart of teaching and learning how to be a mental health professional. Therapy brings about change through a special k...

Working at a partial hospital program, I spend time thinking about program development - specifically, how to best structure a psychoeducati...

Part of developing self-esteem is reframing and restructuring negative thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. However, at the same time, it...

As therapists, we spend a lot of time talking with people about the things contributing to unhappiness. After all, people who are happy don...