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The Secrets of Aging Well

By Dorlee

Many of us find getting older not what we expected and rather difficult to come to terms with. What steps can we take to age well? And how may we help our clients age well? In David Treadway, Ph.D.’s thoughtful talk about “Aging Well” at the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, he provides the answers to these questions. While aging […]

Filed Under: Clinical Skills, Personal Growth, Self Care, Therapeutic Skills, Workshop Learnings Tagged With: aging, David Treadway, death, gratitude, grief, meditation, relationships, retirement, self-care

Family/Couples Therapy – Improving Relationships

By Dorlee

Family and/or Couples’ Therapy Have you wanted to know what a family/couples’ therapist does and/or what you could do to improve the communications in your family unit? These are some of the questions explored in an interview with Laurel Wiig, Ph.D., MFT., who is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Laurel has advanced clinical training […]

Filed Under: Clinical Practice, Expert Interviews, Social Work Tagged With: career advice, career paths, counter-transference, couples counseling, depth psychotherapy, family therapy, intervention, Laurel Wiig, private practice, relationships

50 Shades of Secrets

By Dorlee

50 Shades of Secrets To tell or not to tell, And if to tell, how to tell? Secrets can be such a burden… For example, one father shares his prognosis with his son, Forging a closer bond between the two of them, But keeps his wife and daughter out of the loop. Son is left […]

Filed Under: Social Work, Therapeutic Skills Tagged With: Evan Imber-Black, poem, relationships, secrets, The Secret Life of Families

Eating Disorders Are About Relationships

By Dorlee

To help clients address their eating disorders, Jodi Rubin, ACSW, LCSW, tries to “be mindful of joining people in understanding the ways in which their eating disorder has served them and in doing this, am able to slowly shift into looking at the ways in which it is no longer serving them.” This week, I […]

Filed Under: Clinical Practice, Expert Interviews, Social Work Career Tagged With: career development, clinical social work, eating disorders, HAES, Jodi Rubin, relationships

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