Brief Interventions: When Less Time Means More Focus
Time limits don't dilute therapy—they activate distinct mechanisms that drive focus and client agency.
Trauma-Informed Care: Principles Beyond Specific Techniques
How recognizing trauma's pervasive effects reshapes entire systems of care, not just individual treatment plans
Supervision and Consultation: Why Good Therapists Need Ongoing Support
Research shows therapist skills decay without feedback—competence requires external perspective, not just experience.
Group Therapy: When Multiple Relationships Enhance Treatment
Why the presence of others transforms therapy in ways individual treatment cannot replicate
Why Diagnosis Isn't Treatment Planning
Diagnostic labels open the conversation about treatment—they don't close it.
The Working Alliance: Why Therapeutic Relationships Predict Outcomes
Research consistently shows the therapeutic relationship predicts outcomes more reliably than the specific techniques employed
Assessment Validity: What Your Test Actually Measures
Why the validity question isn't about your test—it's about the inferential leaps you take from scores to conclusions.
The Dodo Bird Verdict: What Equivalent Outcomes Actually Mean
Why all therapies work equally well—except when they don't, and knowing the difference matters for treatment.
Behavioral Activation: Depression Treatment Without Changing Thoughts
Why acting before feeling ready might be depression's most effective treatment approach
Why Cognitive Distortions Persist Despite Awareness
Understanding why knowing better doesn't automatically mean doing better in cognitive therapy.
Why Homework Compliance Predicts Treatment Success
Between-session practice doesn't supplement therapy—it's where lasting change actually happens.
Functional Analysis: Understanding Behavior Before Trying to Change It
Why understanding what behavior accomplishes matters more than labeling what it looks like
Dialectical Behavior Therapy's Biosocial Theory: Understanding Emotion Dysregulation
How biological temperament and environmental invalidation combine to create emotion dysregulation—and how DBT's structure addresses both
Transference and Countertransference: Useful Concepts or Outdated Relics?
How relational patterns in therapy reveal assessment data and treatment opportunities across every theoretical orientation
Why Personality Assessments Often Mislead: Base Rates and Interpretation
How statistical blind spots systematically distort personality assessment interpretation and a practical framework for integrating probability into clinical judgment
Case Conceptualization: The Skill That Separates Good Clinicians
Why understanding clients as individuals predicts better outcomes than following treatment manuals alone.
Psychological Flexibility: How ACT's Six-Process Model Changes Therapeutic Practice
Master ACT's six-process framework to help clients build meaningful lives alongside psychological pain rather than waiting for suffering to end.
Why Exposure Therapy Works When Nothing Else Does
The neuroscience of inhibitory learning explains why exposure therapy produces lasting change when other treatments fail—and how to design exposures that maximize durability.
Schema Therapy: When Core Beliefs Resist Standard Cognitive Techniques
Understanding why some clients know their thoughts are distorted yet remain trapped in the same patterns—and what actually helps them change.
Motivational Interviewing's Core Paradox: Change Through Acceptance
Why accepting where clients stand paradoxically accelerates their movement toward change, explained through the psychology of autonomy and self-persuasion.