Columnists, Practical Practice
The overscheduled practitioner
By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D
“People don’t change.” This was relayed to me within my first week on the job by a psychologist, 30 years older than myself. As a researcher, he had some basis for this...
Here’s to what 2024 holds
By John Grohol, Psy.D.
With another passing year, I look forward to what 2024 brings—especially because 2023 has been something else.
We’ve seen the economy struggle and incomes shrink....
On growing old gracefully – or not
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
As I sit at my desk in a too quiet house, I am thinking about my wife who is spending the day with a friend on a senior citizens’ bus trip to view the New England countryside...
What can therapists learn from older adult clients?
By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D
Most mornings, I drink from a coffee cup featuring an owl, given to me by a client nearly 15 years ago. She was in her 80s and in failing health. Her death occurred after I...
Celebrating the holiday season…and yet
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
The holiday season is upon us. We are in the thick of it with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Diwali behind us and Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza looming ahead. Feasts of saints,...
Should I accept this referral?
By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D
Whose story is it anyway?
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Psychologists are story people, especially when we are trying to help people make more satisfying stories of their lives. Because I am a story person, I am still mulling over...
Writing a spiritual autobiography
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
There will be eight of us, nine if you count me, the workshop leader, lighting up those little Zoom squares like stars blinking onto a twilight sky, one here, a cluster there,...
The pros and cons of accepting health insurance
By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D
Changing times require adaptation
By John Grohol, Psy.D.
Changing times require flexibility and resilience in clinical practice. The old ways of doing things are not always going to be keeping with the times and the needs of...