5 Common EMDR Questions Explained

It takes about 200 hours together to turn an acquaintance into a close friend. So what do you tell the client who tried once, heard nothing back, and decided they're bad at friendship? And what about you, after a full day of sessions leaves you with nothing left for your own friends? Lorain Moorehead, LCSW, and Carlie Deadman, LPC, founder of Aligned Counseling and Consulting and Mindemics, talk about making friends as adults, for clients and for therapists. They cover the research on how lo...

CBT is the most evidence-based first-line treatment for eating disorders, but Dr. Susan Simpson kept seeing the same pattern in her caseload: roughly half of clients relapsed, and dropout rates ran between a quarter and a third. The shame, perfectionism, and attachment wounds underneath the eating disorder just weren't shifting. Dr. Susan Simpson is a clinical psychologist,rainer-Supervisor, and Director of SchemaTherapy Training Scotland. She has more than 25 years of experience treating ea...

A couple sits across from you saying they both want to repair after an affair, but you're not sure either of them, or you, agrees on what "infidelity" actually means. Dr. Talal Alsaleem is an infidelity researcher and therapist who developed Systemic Affair Recovery Therapy (SART) after realizing none of his clinical training was built for the couples flooding his practice — the ones in crisis over current or past infidelity. He's the author of three books on infidelity recovery and ha...

Self Careapist Therapist Podcast is a biweekly, therapist-to-therapist conversation hosted by Lorain Moorehead, LCSW, PMH-C, EMDRIA Approved Consultant. Guests include psychologists, researchers, and the developers of the clinical models they teach, with practical takeaways for every level, from intern to clinical supervisor. Many episodes offer a free CEU for Arizona licensure through the Board of Behavioral Health Examiners. New episodes every other Wednesday. If this episode was useful, le...

Dr. William R. Miller was a developer of motivational interviewing. Ricardo Muñoz ran the first randomized controlled trial ever built to prevent depression before it starts. Fifty years ago, as grad students sharing a rickety office at the University of Oregon, they wrote the first version of a book that would go on to prove something the addiction field didn't believe: that self-help alone, with no therapist, could cut problem drinking by the same margin as live counseling. They joined toda...