Dr. Brad Sachs

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

The Good Enough Therapist

Futility, Failure, and Forgiveness in Treatment
(Routledge)

Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults

A Clinician's Guide to the Transition From Adolescence to Autonomy
(Chestnut Hills Press)

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