Symbols of Individuation in Global Politics: The Case of Barack Obama (“Global Internet Seminar,” Sept. 10, 2010)

Hazelden Women’s Healing Conferences (San Diego, Sept. 24-25; Chicago, Dec. 3-4, 2010)

Jon Kabat-Zinn at UCLA (Oct. 6, 2010)

So many singles asked me to be their personal Love Mentor and I have simply not had the time to do it because of my writing and TV schedule.  This is why I started a highly personalized Love Mentor coaching service where women can have coaching by phone or Skype from specially-trained Love Mentors.  And I am personally supervising them to provide highly specialized one-on-one dating coaching and love mentoring.

Details on the site.  If you try this, please check in, let us all know how it goes.

(Via proconnectnews@yourtango.com)

Based on a case study of Pat (our sandal-wearing, cat-loving psychotherapist) and her new client, James (an ambitious barrister with a potentially harmful habit he can’t stop), this graphic novel follows the anxieties, frustrations, mind-wanderings and break-throughs of each, through a year of therapy sessions together.

Plenty of opportunity to recognize your good-and-bad therapist self, and maybe even freshen up on some theory (via commentary at the bottom of each page).   More b.g.:  A review here…and an author interview here.  Enjoy.

We wanted to inform you of a counseling scam that is going around the internet. In a nutshell, a potential client contacts you asking to pre-pay for counseling. He is out of the country, or somewhere distant and intends on using the sessions when he returns. He then sends you a check for too much money. The check is an overpayment. He contacts you and requests you send him a refund for the overpayment. He needs the money ASAP. So you send him money. The problem is, the check then bounces, and you are out money. Please be very careful of scams, never ever send someone money unless you are certain that it is the right thing to do. If someone “overpays” you, make sure the money is cleared before ever sending money back.

If you get a suspicious email, its probably best not even to reply.

After the Storm
By Esther Perel
As therapists, we have an unquenchable desire to find happy endings for troubled clients, especially those weathering the crisis of infidelity. But what happens months or years later to those couples once our work with them has concluded?

Hope in the Ruins
By Laurie Leitch
A disaster-tested therapist, who’s worked with the survivors of the Thai tsunami, the Sichuan earthquake, and the Rwanda genocide, offers an on-the-scene report from Haiti in the wake of its recent, unimaginably devastating earthquake.

Seeking the Silence
By Dick Anderson
At an age when many are sticking ever closer to their couches and remote controls, a restless soul decides to seize his last chance to explore the wilderness alone.

Participants were asked to rate the importance of 69 criteria with respect to their influence on rankings in the Google, Bing and Yahoo Local “Universal” search algorithms (those that drive the 7-pack, 3-pack, and authoritative onebox search results; NOT the standard organic algorithms).

Results on the site.

What’s Stopping You From Getting Clients… and What To Do About It

Learn how to overcome the challenges you are facing and get the tools to help you grow a successful and thriving practice. C.J. Hayden, best-selling author of Get Clients Now!, will teach you how to attract more clients with less effort.

Give an Hour is a nonpolitical organization whose current project focuses on the mental health needs of military personnel and their families. We are offering a range of mental health services in order to address a variety of needs for the individuals seeking services. Our definition of “family” is quite broad and includes but is not limited to the following: spouses, children, parents, siblings, extended family members, and unmarried partners. We are offering our services to anyone who is or has been affected directly or indirectly (through a relationship with someone in the military) by the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The individuals who seek services from Give an Hour may benefit from different types of support or treatment. We believe that most of those affected by these conflicts would not need mental health services if not for the unusual and extreme circumstances within which they find themselves. Furthermore, many of those seeking services may not be familiar with counseling or psychotherapy. Therefore, you will see terms such as “services” instead of “therapy” to reflect this philosophy.  We believe that being sensitive to the specific circumstances that bring these individuals to our organization is critical for success.

While the standard within the mental health community is to meet with the client in the practitioner’s office, we recognize that this may not be feasible for some individuals seeking services from Give an Hour (called “visitors” on our Web site). We encourage the use of telephone support in those situations where the individual is unable to meet in person with the provider. We understand that  providers will need to rely on their professional judgment to determine when such contact may be insufficient to meet the individual’s mental health needs.

We will provide a variety of materials on our Web site to help clinicians familiarize themselves with the military culture and experience. We will also have links to a variety of military Web sites and Web sites sponsored by military support organizations such as the National Military Family Association. We plan to partner with the Veterans Administration and other military service providers to establish specific procedures for critical situations such as the hospitalization of active duty personnel and decisions regarding a soldier’s fitness to serve. In addition, we will have information available on our Web site regarding the assessment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Only mental health professionals who have training and experience with the treatment of PTSD should list themselves as available to provide this service. Clinicians not trained in the treatment of trauma will find guidelines to assist them in locating an appropriate provider.

Sign up here!

I want to propose a new competition for therapists: awards for the worst experiences doing couples therapy. My own entry would be in the category of “worst experience as a new couples therapist in the first session.” It was 26 years ago, but as they say, it feels like yesterday…

Read the rest here: Bad Couples Therapy: How to Avoid It.

Psychotherapy Networker’s

Shame-O-Phobia
By David Wexler
Shame is the least understood dimension of men’s inner experience—by both men themselves and the people who live with them. This lack of understanding may be the key to why fewer than one-third of psychotherapy clients are male.

Lions Without A Cause
By Steven Stosny
Let’s face it: love means something quite different to men and women. A look at other species of social mammals offers some remarkable insights into the biological underpinnings of this difference.

Women Treating Men
By Holly Sweet
Gender shapes the therapy relationship from the very first moment therapist meets client, especially when the client is male and the therapist is female.

Game On!
By Barry J. Jacobs
Although therapy is often considered a profession dominated by the female sensibility, a lifelong gym rat, much practiced in the arts of masculine aggression, applies the lessons of the basketball court in the consulting room.

The Tribe Gathers
By Garry Cooper
It might seem strange to think of 3,000 people getting together in the lap of hotel luxury as a “primitive tribal gathering,” but the Networker Symposium definitely isn’t your everyday psychotherapy meeting.