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Forgiveness Is for Everyone and You Don’t Need to Be Asked to Extend it

You may increase your happiness when you learn how to forgive others who may never ask you to do it. Here's how to do it.

You may increase your happiness when you learn how to forgive others who may never ask you to do it. Here's how to do it.

Overcoming the Winter Blues

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a real condition that often strikes during the colder months. Discover how CBT techniques can help you overcome the "winter blues."

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a real condition that often strikes during the colder months. Discover how CBT techniques can help you overcome the "winter blues."

What If the Real Antidepressant Is You?

What if the biggest driver of the antidepressant “effect” isn’t the drug, but your expectation? Learn why the placebo effect can create real change and what it means for recovery.

What if the biggest driver of the antidepressant “effect” isn’t the drug, but your expectation? Learn why the placebo effect can create real change and what it means for recovery.

Why Therapy Gets Stuck at Symptom Relief

Therapy often stops when symptoms ease, not when deeper problems are understood. What gets missed when treatment fixes distress but ignores why it keeps coming back.

Therapy often stops when symptoms ease, not when deeper problems are understood. What gets missed when treatment fixes distress but ignores why it keeps coming back.

America's Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Care Crisis

Personal Perspective: There's an OCD care crisis in America. Are we listening to the OCD sufferers who need the most help?

Personal Perspective: There's an OCD care crisis in America. Are we listening to the OCD sufferers who need the most help?

Does AI Undermine Clinical Supervision?

Personal Perspective: AI induces us to emphasize knowing over the pleasure of finding out.

Personal Perspective: AI induces us to emphasize knowing over the pleasure of finding out.

Could I Snap? How to Overcome Your Fear of Losing Control

Are you afraid of losing control and doing something you later regret? Discover the secret to greater confidence in your mental control ability and eradicate a source of anxiety.

Are you afraid of losing control and doing something you later regret? Discover the secret to greater confidence in your mental control ability and eradicate a source of anxiety.

Aging Well

How we think about getting older profoundly impacts how we age. Learn how to challenge stereotypes, embrace the second half of life, and find meaning in every stage.

How we think about getting older profoundly impacts how we age. Learn how to challenge stereotypes, embrace the second half of life, and find meaning in every stage.

When Anxiety Medication Gets in the Way of Healing

Anxiety is best managed when the brain becomes less reactive to threats. Benzodiazepines can interfere with the learning process that leads to better anxiety management.

Anxiety is best managed when the brain becomes less reactive to threats. Benzodiazepines can interfere with the learning process that leads to better anxiety management.

Supercharge Your New Year's Resolutions

This year, supercharge your resolutions by focusing on a critical but invisible aspect of lasting change: beliefs. When we tackle our beliefs, change happens naturally.

This year, supercharge your resolutions by focusing on a critical but invisible aspect of lasting change: beliefs. When we tackle our beliefs, change happens naturally.

What’s Your Secret? Asking About Strength, Not Symptoms

The key to mental health isn’t avoiding trauma but building resilience. Asking patients about their strengths can transform therapy.

The key to mental health isn’t avoiding trauma but building resilience. Asking patients about their strengths can transform therapy.

Overcome "I’m Not Enough" and Transform Your Negative Self-Beliefs

The science of self-worth, the power of neuroplasticity, and 10 practical steps to help you uproot old patterns and embrace your true value.

The science of self-worth, the power of neuroplasticity, and 10 practical steps to help you uproot old patterns and embrace your true value.

Is It Holiday Shopping or Compulsive Spending?

Holiday season shopping can be a dangerous gateway that escalates into compulsive shopping for those who are prone to it.

Holiday season shopping can be a dangerous gateway that escalates into compulsive shopping for those who are prone to it.

What Plato Understood About Your Deepest Beliefs

Cognitive therapy identifies core beliefs. But how do you evaluate them? Plato offered a criterion sharper than "adaptive," one that clinicians can use today.

Cognitive therapy identifies core beliefs. But how do you evaluate them? Plato offered a criterion sharper than "adaptive," one that clinicians can use today.

Motivation and Manualized Treatment for Eating Disorders

Much has changed in how we understand and treat eating disorders. Some significant aspects have remained consistent or stalled. Here's why.

Much has changed in how we understand and treat eating disorders. Some significant aspects have remained consistent or stalled. Here's why.

Does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Work for Autistic Clients?

Research suggests that cognitive behavior therapy can be a promising treatment for autistic clients but more study is needed.

Research suggests that cognitive behavior therapy can be a promising treatment for autistic clients but more study is needed.

Evolution of CBT for Treating Adult ADHD

CBT is an evidence-supported treatment for adult ADHD. Evolving trends in CBT have already improved adult ADHD treatment, and some hold the promise of further gains.

CBT is an evidence-supported treatment for adult ADHD. Evolving trends in CBT have already improved adult ADHD treatment, and some hold the promise of further gains.

“It’s Binary, My Dear Watson.”

Here's how to avoid five mental traps of binary thinking.

Here's how to avoid five mental traps of binary thinking.

Change the Way You Think, to Change the Way You Fly

Addressing negative core beliefs with Black women clients.

Addressing negative core beliefs with Black women clients.

The Two-Part Secret to Happiness

How fleeting moments and lasting purpose combine to elevate your happiness, and simple steps to raise your personal happiness set point.

How fleeting moments and lasting purpose combine to elevate your happiness, and simple steps to raise your personal happiness set point.

Suicide Prevention and Treatment in Adolescents

Adolescent suicide rates have been increasing. What signs should parents look for—and what therapies have been proven to reduce the risk?

Adolescent suicide rates have been increasing. What signs should parents look for—and what therapies have been proven to reduce the risk?

Internalized Weight Stigma and Eating Disorders

Internalized weight stigma causes deep emotional and health harms and strongly fuels eating disorders. CBT-E helps reduce its impact by reshaping patients' self-evaluation.

Internalized weight stigma causes deep emotional and health harms and strongly fuels eating disorders. CBT-E helps reduce its impact by reshaping patients' self-evaluation.

To Be Hurt or Not Be Hurt—That Is the Question

We are often negatively impacted by others in ways that they don't often realize or intend. How can we control the impact?

We are often negatively impacted by others in ways that they don't often realize or intend. How can we control the impact?

Climate Change Isn’t Just Affecting the Weather

Climate change is real. So, too, is climate change anxiety. Can we do anything about either one?

Climate change is real. So, too, is climate change anxiety. Can we do anything about either one?

Emetophobia in Autistic People: What Clinicians Should Know

A look at why emetophobia can be especially challenging for autistic adults and how sensory-informed, neurodiversity-affirming care can lead to more effective support.

A look at why emetophobia can be especially challenging for autistic adults and how sensory-informed, neurodiversity-affirming care can lead to more effective support.

A Passion for Self-Compassion

In a culture praising self-compassion (but offering judgment everywhere we look), is self-compassion another hoax?

In a culture praising self-compassion (but offering judgment everywhere we look), is self-compassion another hoax?

CBT, Psychoanalysis, and Ancient Teachings

The bridge of understanding between the distant past, the recent past, and the present of psychological healing.

The bridge of understanding between the distant past, the recent past, and the present of psychological healing.

When Uncomfortable, Don’t Push: PAUSE

Do you rush to fix or soothe when things feel uneasy? If the urge feels urgent but isn’t, the answer might be simple: PAUSE.

Do you rush to fix or soothe when things feel uneasy? If the urge feels urgent but isn’t, the answer might be simple: PAUSE.

The Therapy Hack That Might Save You Time and Money

Personal Perspective: What if one question could speed up your therapy—and reveal the blind spots holding you back? Discover the simple phrase that could change everything.

Personal Perspective: What if one question could speed up your therapy—and reveal the blind spots holding you back? Discover the simple phrase that could change everything.

A New Treatment for Childhood Anxiety

What if everything we’re doing to help anxious kids is actually making them worse? A new approach challenges it all—in just five sessions.

What if everything we’re doing to help anxious kids is actually making them worse? A new approach challenges it all—in just five sessions.