Therapy on the Cutting Edge

In this episode, Shawn discusses his work with families with transgender/non-binary/gender diverse youth. In discussing his career, he talks about the process of coming out as a transgender man, and his personal experience in the professional community of clinicians. He explains how the bulk of his work in training clinicians and assisting families is helping them examine how they think about thei...

In this episode, Dossie describes her latest endeavor where she and her colleague have been leading six-week group workshops for survivors of sexual abuse, as well as six-week groups for sexual violence offenders. Among many topics, she discusses the need for broader open communication about sex, consent, and the nuances of working with sexual violence transgressors. Dossie also discusses her work...

In this episode, Lynn discusses her work with children and families, and how she developed her approach that integrates family systems, hypnosis, and cognitive behavioral therapy. She discusses working with children and adolescents with anxiety, and how she focuses on the pattern, and helping the clients to see how they are "doing the disorder", and interrupt that pattern, as opposed to focusing o...

In this episode, Dr. Walser talks about her career and how it lead her to becoming interested in, and becoming a researcher and author in the Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) Approach. Robyn discusses how ACT resonated with her, and how she has gone on to develop the approach in working with clients with PTSD. She discusses the concepts of ACT, gives an example of the "chessboard metaphor", and...

In this episode, Jaqueline Persons, Ph. D. discusses conducting research in private practice and contributing to the scientific literature. One important way clinicians can contribute to research is by She explains the importance studying of using data from practice settings to examine the role of cultural and other diversity in the treatment process, as many research studies have a lack of cultur...

Muniya Khanna, Ph. D., discusses the next step in her career, which is helping get the tools of effective treatment into the hands of parents who want to help their children. She discusses her career in treatment and research, working with Martin Seligman, Ph. D. researching Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and her work with Philip Kendall, PhD. researching his CBT treatment for children, Copin...

In this interview, Guy Diamond discusses his personal journal in developing Attachment Based Family Therapy, a proven, effective treatment, that helps adolescents with depression, trauma, suicide, and anxiety, as well as LGBTQ adolescent young adults and their families. Dr. Diamond discusses how, through clinical practice and research, he and his collogues learned to make those profound, heartfelt...

Domestic violence often leads a therapist to determine that couples therapy is "contra-indicated", which may lead to treatment that could be helpful not being utilized. In this interview, John Hamel, PhD, LCSW discusses what the research tells us, and how his entry into the field of working with men who were domestically violent began with a model that was focused on men enforcing a patriarchy on...

Psilocybin (or magic mushrooms as it is commonly called) was used and researched in the treatment of mental health disorder extensively in the 50s and 60s, but stopped as the substance became illegal. Today, psilocybin has been named a "breakthrough treatment" by the FDA for the treatment of depression and other mental health disorders and is on track to be legalized for medical use. James Keim, L...