One effective way we can utilize to the maximum degree client extra-therapeutic factors, such as: their metaphors, language, key strengths, life passions, and what and who resonates with them the most from pop culture, literature, theater, movies, TV, art, and music, is by  incorporating this important information into co-designing with our clients’ therapeutic experiments and […]

The use of couple and family choreography, sculpting, and enactments strategies are not new and were masterfully used for decades by such family therapy pioneers as Peggy Papp (Papp, 1994), Virginia Satir (Satir, 1988), and Salvador Minuchin (Minuchin & Fishman, 1981). However, they used these experiential techniques to underscore problem-maintaining patterns of interaction and rigid […]

With clinical situations where the adolescent is longing to get closer to one of his or her disengaged or more peripheral parents, the adolescent mentoring his or her parents is a fun and highly effective ritual for strengthening their relational bond. While meeting alone with the adolescent, he or she takes the lead in determining […]

One client resource area most therapists rarely inquire with their clients about is their significant life experiences that triggered in them exuberant feelings. These are life experiences where clients were experiencing a high level of enthusiasm, joy, passion, awe, a strong sense of wellbeing, inspiration, and feeling like being on top of the world. These […]