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Articles tagged "professional practice".
20 articles
When the Record Becomes the Treatment: Psychotherapy, Documentation, and the Clinician’s Double Bind
The 2026 Lindsay Clancy trial has placed mental health treatment under unusually intense public scrutiny. Testimony and cross-examination have raised questions about assessment, diagnosis, medication management, continuity of care, telehealth, documentation, and what clinicians recognized or failed to recognize before a catastrophic outcome. Those questions matter. Yet the case is most useful to the profession […]
Limor Ast, LMFT
October 28, 2026
When the Map Becomes the Territory: A Model of Interpersonal Meaning-Making
Abstract Interpersonal experiences do not speak for themselves. We observe what another person does, but we still must make sense of what that behavior means. We remember events while also reconstructing their meaning, and information learned later through conversation, context, or subsequent events can become part of how we understand the original experience. Research in […]
Emily Williams, MA
October 26, 2026
The Subjective Side of Objectivity: The Person Behind the Therapist
If you ask a surgeon why they became a doctor, you will probably hear a story about a grandmother having heart surgery, a brother fighting cancer, or a childhood spent in and out of hospital waiting rooms. No one asks the surgeon whether their grandmother’s bypass will make them feel shaky in the operating room. […]
Shoshana Twersky, PsyD
October 19, 2026
Beyond the Hours: Clinical Supervision as Professional Identity Development
There is a moment in the development of almost every new clinician when the focus shifts from leaning on their educational scaffolding and guardrails to a deeper clinical longing for cultivating their own unique clinical voice. Early in training, the question is often, “What am I supposed to do?” With experience, it becomes, “What do […]
Louis Laves-Webb, LCSW-S, LPC-S, MSSW
October 12, 2026
The Family That Never Arrives: An Integrative Framework for Attachment, Ambiguous Loss, and the Ghost Family
A woman receives a warm text from her mother. Hope fills her heart. Maybe this time we can talk honestly. The woman changes all of her plans and contacts her mother ready to repair years of distance. The conversation remains pleasant until she mentions something painful. The words barely make it into the air before […]
Emily Williams, MA
September 9, 2026
The Moment Before the Intervention: What Informs a Therapist’s Next Move in Complex Trauma Treatment
The client enters the office and begins the ritual. The shoes come off, the blinds get tilted down, the lamps get adjusted, the phone goes face-down on the coffee table, the clock gets turned away. The therapist watches quietly. Over time, these small acts have become how this client crosses into the therapeutic space, whether […]
Shoshana Twersky, PsyD
September 7, 2026
When Love Hurts: Acute and Post-Traumatic Attachment Activation
Adults frequently present for psychotherapy in acute distress following the actual or threatened loss of a romantic partner. For some, betrayal, rejection, infidelity, breakup, or divorce can destabilize a significant relationship, along with one’s source of coregulation and sense of self. Unlike bereavement, these losses involve withdrawal by a still-living attachment figure, which sustains hope, […]
Shannon L. McIntyre, Ph.D.
August 11, 2026
The Price of Tradition: Why Legacy Structures are Losing the Next Generation of Psychologists
Introduction The current professional landscape in clinical psychology is characterized by a growing concern regarding the perceived disengagement of Early Career Psychologists (ECPs). From state psychological associations to the leadership of the American Psychological Association (APA; broadly referred to as ‘the guild’), there is widespread alarm over declining membership rates, a lack of volunteerism in […]
Jacinta Dickens, PhD
July 26, 2026
Practical Tips for Using Social Media to Promote Your Professional Practice
Creating professional social media accounts across multiple platforms can increase both business traction and community outreach and contact. By using your professional knowledge to inform the public about your mental health expertise and areas of specialty, you can help strengthen the relationship between mental health care and the communities it serves; destigmatizing various facets of […]
Amanda Conway, MS
May 6, 2026
Gab with the Greats 2023 Video
This video is the Gab with the Greats 2023 panel that focuses on diversity and multiculturalism. The three panelists are: Dr. Rosemary Phelps, Dr. Derald Wing Sue and Dr. Melba Vasquez. This event is organized by the APA Division 29 Early Career Psychology (ECP) domain representative Dr. Yujia Lei, and the ECP committee chair, Dr. Michelle Joaquin. In this video, panelists share […]
Rosemary Phelps, Ph.D. + 2 more
October 16, 2023
Addressing Whiteness in Psychotherapy
In this video, Natasha Stovall, PhD, psychologist and activist, joins Daniel Gaztambide, PsyD, to talk about addressing Whiteness in psychotherapy. Natasha talks about how Whiteness and White Supremacy are enacted in the consulting room, and helps us think through how we can think clinically about race not just with patients of color but with White […]
Natasha Stovall, PhD + 1 more
November 21, 2021
Setting Your Fees During Covid-19 and Beyond
In this video, Tiffany McLain, LMFT, psychotherapist and entrepreneur, sits down with Daniel Gaztambide, PsyD, to talk about setting your fees during COVID-19. Tiffany addresses common stories about money that we learn in graduate school, and often our own familial, cultural, and socioeconomic upbringing. We’ll also discuss anxiety and shame around valuing our work, and […]
Daniel Jose Gaztambide, Psy.D. + 1 more
September 12, 2021