What It Means To Make A Referral
To speak with a relative stranger about the most intimate details of one’s life is an incredibly daunting prospect for many psychotherapy patients. No matter how guarded a patient may be, she or he is...
View ArticleTwenty-Three Apps for the 21st Century Therapist
Mobile applications have a lot to offer therapists. Whether you are looking for games to play with patients, productivity or billing tools, or something to help you research, there’s an app for...
View ArticleEpic Supervision Fail
This past week social work colleagues Ericka Kimball and JaeRan Kim had an article published in Social Work entitled: “Virtual Boundaries: Ethical Considerations for Use of Social Media in Social...
View ArticleWhat To Do When Your Therapist Turns Into A Kitten
I have been working with patients online for about 6 years, and even now I have some interesting surprises in the work. Recently I was meeting online with one of my long-term patients for their...
View ArticleYou’re The Reason Building Your Business Is So Hard
Recently I was asked by a student to take some time and talk with her about her career options. She was trying to plan for her career post-graduate school, and struggling some with the vicissitudes of...
View ArticleSaving Ideas
Sometime, over 40,000 years ago, someone decided to put images of human hands on the cave pictured above. It turned out to be a good idea. This painting has given scientists information on life in...
View ArticleGuild Wars: The Conservative Attack on Online Therapy
“European commerce during the Dark Ages was limited and stifled by the existence of a multitude of small kingdoms that were independently regulated and who suppressed the movement of goods across their...
View ArticleEvocation and Mindfulness: Or, How to Think Better
Like other art forms, video games can be both a mirror and a candle held up to our culture, at times reflecting it and at times revealing things about it. Normally I direct my posts primarily at...
View ArticleThe Changing Landscape of Social Work
Recently I had the great opportunity to be a scholar-in-residence at The University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work. For three days I met with students, faculty and staff to speak about emerging...
View ArticleNo Matter How You Feel, You Still Failed
Psychotherapists are often people who prefer to deal with feelings in their workings with people. Feelings are important, and being empathically attuned to how patients are feeling is equally...
View ArticleWorks, Life and Marshmallows: Iterative Design
They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single marshmallow. Ok, I say that, and more specifically I am talking about your life, job or relationship rather than a journey. I am coming...
View ArticleSocial Justice & Technology Revisited
I have written before about how technology often makes life easier for a large number of the population while simultaneously disenfranchising others. The good news is that this does not have to be the...
View ArticleThe Relationship Between Emerging Technology & Psychodynamic Theory
Often when I present, people are surprised that I teach on both emerging technologies such as social media and video games, and classic psychodynamic theories. Although it may initially seem...
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