My practice includes case consultation and clinical supervision.
I experience psychotherapy as a uniquely difficult but marvelous enterprise, and endeavor to support and guide beginning, intermediate, and experienced clinicians in navigating the complicated choreography of the therapist-patient relationship.
I attempt to focus on both craft and process—craft related to developing effective clinical strategies, and process related to the session-by-session struggle to implement these strategies in ways that speak to and illuminate our collective desire to survive, strive and thrive as human beings.
In these collegial conversations, I am less interested in transmitting a particular method and more interested in cultivating a clinical sensibility, a way of being with patients that results in a deeper recognition of the vulnerability, resilience, imagination and integrity that inhere in both therapist and patient.
Books
Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults
Workshops for Clinicians
Therapeutic Work
- The Good Enough Therapist: Futility, Failure and Forgiveness in Treatment
- Family-Centered Treatment with Struggling Young Adults
- The Evaluation and Treatment of Suicidal Children and Adolescents
- The Good Enough Teen: Thoughtful Treatment in the Face of Adolescent Anguish
- Waking Up Daddy: Counseling New, Expectant and Experienced Fathers
- The Currency of Desire: Uncovering and Discovering Money Matters in Couples Therapy
- Ruthlessness and Tenderness: Family Therapy and Intergenerational Trauma
Therapists
- The Secret Life of Money in the Practice of Psychotherapy
- The Poetics of the Progress Note: Writing Ourselves into Our Patients’ Lives
- Supporting and Promoting Therapist Self-Care in Clinical Supervision