Seven Guidelines for Therapists Helping Clients to…

A college student in my interpersonal forgiveness class said, “I think I am surprised that to this day, I actually haven’t had a therapist help me with the forgiveness process.” Another student said, “I am now genuinely awed by the possibility of forgiveness as an option for my clients to consider in their own healing […]

Why Queer Clients Need Queer Therapists

As a therapist who is both queer herself and works almost exclusively with queer and trans folks, I have both firsthand experiences and have heard from hundreds of clients that past therapists didn’t understand them, and in fact, pathologized them, for the ways their lives fall outside the straight norm. For me, this showed up […]

How Therapists Can Help Clients Move Toward Forgiveness

Psychotherapy often explores family dynamics, unresolved trauma, developmental issues, and the unconscious conflicts that interfere with a client’s ability to optimally cope. Psychotherapy is practiced in many forms with many underlying theories of how change occurs. Self-knowledge and key insights can often unravel unhealthy patterns from the past. Disputing irrational thoughts can help clients reduce […]