Psychotherapy Bulletin
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Practice Committee Office Hours Update: Do You Have to Sacrifice Your Values to Maintain Financial Stability in Private Practice?
The Practice Committee has been hosting “Office Hours” to debunk some of the most common myths about private practice. Our most recent talk was centered around the dichotomy between the financial piece of private practice and concerns of sacrificing values as practitioners in order to make a living in private practice. Private practice can be […]
Wilson T. Trusty, Ph.D + 3 more
June 24, 2026
Psychosocial Stage Theory as a Model for Treating Homeless Veterans
Introduction Erikson (1950) outlined eight stages of psychosocial development across the developmental lifespan. Within each stage arose a “crisis” that the individual needed to resolve before proceeding cleanly into the next. Unresolved resolution at any stage led to a psychological arrest that hindered the negotiation of the following stages: trust versus mistrust, autonomy versus shame, […]
Michael Pica, PsyD
June 22, 2026
Advancing Precision Mental Health Across Cultures: A Multimodal Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
Improving the Prediction of Early Treatment Responses, Dropout, and Outcome using Daily-Life Data Psychotherapeutic approaches have repeatedly been shown to be effective, with effects comparable to those of pharmacological treatment and, in some cases, showing greater durability over time (e.g., Cuijpers et al., 2023). At the same time, overall treatment success remains modest, with more […]
Fabienne Mink, M.Sc. + 11 more
June 22, 2026
When Distress Is Collective: Implications for Clinical Training and Supervision
Over the past several years, a recurring pattern has emerged in clinical consultation and supervision among therapists working with clients from diaspora communities affected by war, political repression, migration, and ongoing sociopolitical instability.Many of these clients are not responding primarily to past trauma in the conventional sense. They are responding to circumstances that are still […]
Bahareh Sahebi, PsyD, LMFT
June 22, 2026
“WE’RE GONNA SIT AND GRIN AND TELL OUR GRANDCHILDREN ‘BOUT THE TIME I CALLED THIS GUY. IT WAS FOUR IN THE MORNING”
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM): Reflections by Victor Dzau, having served 12 years as President of NAM: “When I arrived in 2014 at what was then called the Institute of Medicine, the organization had reached a long-awaited crossroads. Within a year, we became an independent Academy alongside the National Academy of Sciences and the […]
Pat DeLeon, Ph.D.
June 21, 2026
Society for Psychotherapy Research meeting in Osaka
Event Information RSVP:Please contact Samuel Kamohara at samuelkamohara173@gmail.com to reserve your spot. Non-SAP members are also welcome to attend. We simply ask that they mention this in their RSVP email so that we can plan accordingly. In addition, if members are presenting at the conference and would like their presentations to be featured on the APA29 website […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
June 12, 2026
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Specialized Experience into Emerging Clinician Identity
This article is for those at every stage of their professional training journey: considering graduate school, navigating it, completing internships, and stepping into the workforce. We share our experiences to highlight common struggles, the hidden strengths we bring, and how to recognize what experiences transfer and which require further refinement. In a field that values […]
Charles Clark, MS + 2 more
June 10, 2026
From Misconception to Meaning: A Trauma-Informed Understanding of BDSM
Defining BDSM BDSM, commonly referred to as kink, S&M, or leather, is an abbreviation of bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism. It refers to a physical, psychological, and sexual practice often involving consensual power exchange. Within the community, it is mainly considered within four categories: practices (“play” or “scenes”), a lifestyle […]
Sophia Gamez, M.S.
June 10, 2026
The Double Identity Crisis in Transgender Adolescent Development
Introduction The literature on transgender youth has primarily focused on neuroscientific and biological, etiological factors (Ghiasi et al., 2024; Levin et al., 2022), violence and victimization (Lombardi et al., 2002; Norris & Orchowski, 2022), gender identity models (Boskey, 2014; Doyle, 2022; Katz-Wise et al., 2017; Pleak, 2009; Spencer et al., 2021), hormonal treatment (Chen et […]
Michael Pica, PsyD
June 3, 2026
A Fat Positive Framework for Beginning Body Image Work with Plus Size Clients
Two-thirds of the United States population of women are considered plus size, but weight stigma in healthcare spaces is as pervasive as ever and has long lasting mental health implications for plus size clients (Flint et al., 2025, Christel & Dunn, 2016). With anti-fat bias on the rise, plus size clients who are seeking therapeutic […]
Sofia Siraj-Wu, MS, LPC
May 31, 2026
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy: 2026 APA Convention Program
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy 2026 APA Convention Program Thursday August 6th Personalizing Psychotherapy to Therapists’ Effectiveness Differences Chair: James Boswell Speakers: Michael Constantino, Averi Gaines, Alice Coyne *CE session* 10:00 AM – 11:00 AMRoom: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Level Two: 204C Symposium Division 29 Poster Session I 11:30 AM – 12:30 PMRoom: […]
Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
May 28, 2026
Integrating Mindfulness into Psychotherapeutic Practice
A client once described conflict at work “came out of nowhere.” Meetings would escalate quickly, leaving them feeling overwhelmed and reactive. When we slowed the moment down in session, something different emerged. As the client spoke about a recent disagreement, my favorite question to ask clients is: “What do you notice in your body right […]
Anne Bello, PhD
May 13, 2026