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Adults with ADHD increasingly report trouble finding a therapist who will treat ADHD as the primary concern. In this episode of Self Careapist Therapist: Expert Insights and Practical Therapy Skills, Dr. Maggie Sibley, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, explains where that gap comes from and how […]

A couple sits across from you wanting to repair after an affair, but you’re not sure either of them, or you, agrees on what “infidelity” actually means. Dr. Talal Alsaleem built an operational definition for exactly this problem. A couple sits across from you saying they both want to repair after an affair. What you […]

Fifty years of research from the co-authors of Rethinking Drinking, including the study that found one therapist’s clients had a 100% success rate and another’s had 25%, using the exact same treatment manual. Guests: Dr. William R. Miller, Ph.D. & Dr. Ricardo F. Muñoz, Ph.D · Co-authors, Rethinking Drinking For the therapist short on time You have […]

Maybe you have had a client who interrupts you four times in fifteen minutes, reframes feedback as an attack, or spends most of the session either boasting or denegrating. A lot of clinicians simply avoid taking these referrals or echo that therapy isn’t effective for these folks. That is the clinical territory Wendy Behary, LCSW, […]

The Martrydom Baked into Helping Professions Blocks Burnout Prevention I sat down with Shaina Siber, LCSW of AFFIRM Mental Health recently to talk about an affliction that plagues helping professions: burnout and burnout prevention. We discussed that there are a lot of reasons that individuals working in the therapy realm as well as healthcare as […]

Therapy for therapists in Texas tends to get treated as optional once licensure arrives. We pour years of energy into supervision during grad school, practicum, and our pre-licensure hours. Then a piece of paper arrives that says we’re independently licensed, and the supervision just stops. That was the hot take that opened my conversation with […]

You have a client who shows up on time, follows every recommendation, never floods in session, and still isn’t getting better. Their presenting concern might be chronic depression, a restrictive eating disorder, or persistent anxiety. On paper, they look like a good therapy candidate. In practice, something keeps not landing. Radically Open DBT was developed […]

Dr. Steven C. Hayes, originator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy discusses Act Therapy for Therapists this and more on Self Careapist Therapist Podcast. Published by Lorain Moorehead, LCSW | Self Careapist Therapist Podcast | lorainmoorehead.com/podcast You’ve Probably Been Using ACT Without Knowing It If you’ve ever helped a client get some distance from a thought […]

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a trauma treatment modality that clients are requesting by name right now, and most clinicians still haven’t heard of it. In a recent episode of Self Careapist Therapist Podcast, I sat down with Laney Rosenzweig, the licensed marriage and family therapist who developed ART after nearly three decades in the […]

Predictive Processing, Flash EMDR, and the 4 Blinks Approach I’m Lorain Moorehead, LCSW, an EMDR Certified Consultant, clinical supervisor, and host of The Self Careapist Therapist Podcast. My work focuses on helping therapists stay clinically grounded while integrating advanced trauma treatments that are ethical, effective, and sustainable. Many clinicians work with clients whose symptoms span […]