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📓 From the Field: An Internship Case Journal

Three real case reflections from a graduate internship, read in order: noticing transference, understanding parallel process, and handling an unavoidable impasse.

1. Integrating Theory With Practice — detecting transference and counter-transference, and knowing when to confront a client’s defenses
2. Parallel Processes, Boundaries & Authenticity — applying the parallel process model to two real clients
3. Are Some Therapeutic Impasses Unavoidable? — handling an impasse and a difficult referral

What Is EMDR?

Expert interview with Andrea B. Goldberg, LCSW, on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma treatment.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Expert interview with Laura K. Schenck, Ph.D., on mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills.

Gestalt Therapy and Dream Analysis

Drawn from a Gestalt therapy graduate class at NYU, applying present-moment awareness and the here-and-now approach to interpreting dreams in session.

Parts Work

Interview with Jay Noricks, PhD, MFT, who developed Parts Psychology, on working with the inner system—understanding protectors, exiles, and the Self.

Play Therapy: Healing Through Play

Interview with Jennifer Taylor, LCSW, RPT, a Registered Play Therapist, on using play as the child’s natural language to process experiences and heal from trauma.

🎨 Art Therapy: Featured Reading

An expert interview on the field, plus a complete 5-part personal series from a postgraduate art therapy class taken at NYU, exploring how visual expression opens up feelings that talk alone often can’t reach.

1. The Power of Art in Healing — expert interview with board-certified art therapist Pamela Hayes
2. Art Therapy and Social Work — part 1 of 5, 332 shares
3. Children’s Growth Through Art — part 2 of 5
4. 11 Tips for Employing Art Therapy Techniques — part 3 of 5, 668 shares
5. The “Ugly” in Art Therapy — part 4 of 5
6. The Box in Art Therapy: Inside and Outside of Self — part 5 of 5, 337 shares

Social Work and Music Therapy

Interview with Linda Grobman, MSW, LSW, CMP, founder, publisher, and editor of The New Social Worker, on pursuing music therapy as a career path.

Drama Therapy in Action

Based on a graduate class Dorlee took in expressive arts at NYU, with drama therapist M. Beauregard, MA, RDT, LCAT, as guest lecturer, demonstrating role play, sculpture, story-making, and monologue exercises.

How Therapeutic Journaling Can Empower You/Your Client

A guest post by Amy Knitzer, LCSW, reviewing and interviewing the author of Dima Dupéré’s “Feeling, Writing, Empowering,” on integrating therapeutic writing into practice with groups and individuals.

Can Hypnosis Be Used as a Therapeutic Tool?

Dan Short, Ph.D., on therapeutic hypnosis as a “collaborative exploration of possibility,” bringing previously unrecognized resources to awareness for the client’s benefit.

4 Ways to Use Digital Tools to Engage Clients

Practical strategies for incorporating technology into client engagement and clinical practice.

Got Anger? Try HEArt

Key takeaways from the HEArt program, based on Dr. Howard Lipke’s book for preventing destructive anger, with Dr. Lipke answering reader questions directly.

🩹 Mind-Body Pain: Featured Reading

A 5-part series based on the “When Stress Causes Pain: Innovative Treatments for Psychophysiologic Disorders” conference (NYU Postdoctoral Program and Psychophysiologic Disorders Association), on chronic pain with no structural cause.

1. Can Emotional Stress Cause Pain? [1 of 5] — Howard Schubiner, MD, on how psychophysiologic disorders develop, 38 shares
2. Can Emotional Stress Cause Pain? [2 of 5] — Dr. David Clarke’s stress check-up framework and a recovering patient’s perspective
3. Can Emotional Stress Cause Pain? [3 of 5] — an original poem on the mind-body pain cycle
4. Can Emotional Stress Cause Pain? [4 of 5] — Alan Gordon, LCSW, applying CBT to mind-body pain
5. Can Emotional Stress Cause Pain? [5 of 5] — Dr. Raja Selvam’s Integral Somatic Psychotherapy approach, 57 shares

🌸 Menopause and Women’s Sexual Health: Featured Reading

A three-part series drawing on Dr. Christiane Northrup’s research, alongside a clinician’s own perspective on what actually shapes intimacy at this stage of life.

1. Menopause – Is It the Beginning of the End? — an overview of real menopause facts and symptoms
2. Menopause and Pleasure: An Oxymoron? — Northrup’s first four keys, plus a clinician’s perspective on how a partner’s own aging and sexual health shape the picture
3. Menopause and Pleasure — the remaining three keys

📦 Hoarding: Featured Reading

A poem introducing the difference between hoarding and collecting, followed by the assessment tools and engagement strategies clinicians actually need.

1. What’s the Difference Between Hoarding and Collecting? — an original poem, 115 shares
2. Hoarding: Causes, Hazards, and Strategies — DSM-5 criteria, safety checklist, and engagement strategies, 1.1K shares