September/October 2021: Who Heals the Healers?: How Our Struggles Shape Our Practice

This issue calls attention to therapists’ personal and emotional struggles and challenges the notion that therapists are somehow free from emotional turmoil, or manage it easily, precisely because they’re in the business of helping clients work through similar issues. It also looks at how these struggles shape their work for the better. These pieces look at therapists’ own battles with depression, suicidality, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, to name a few. Other pieces cover best practices for writing progress notes, the importance of therapists doing their own inner work and how it impacts work with clients, and an interview about racialized trauma and body-based solutions for healing from it.