Empathian Goes Deeper Into Mental Health and Psychotherapy Topics

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A Safety Plan or Patient Abandonment?

Why 'Go to the ER' or 'Call 911' voicemail reflects a deeper failure in outpatient...
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Supportive Psychotherapy Training: Seminars & Supervision

A practice-driven 20 hours of training for psychotherapists. Dates: Feb 17 April 16 2026 A...
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Deeper Thinking About Personality Disorders

Level of Personality Organization is more important than DSM-5TR diagnoses When clinicians hear personality disorder, tension...
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Is Your Private Practice Office Actually Safe?

A practical checklist most clinicians have never done! We spend years learning how to create...
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The Psychological Value of Competence

And how it changes therapeutic outcomes. One thing I noticed over years of clinical work...
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Dealing with Threatening Patients

Managing Stalking and Harassment in Clinical Practice There is a conversation that happens in hushed...
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Borderline Personality Disorder: Nature and Nurture

It emerges at the intersection of a sensitive nervous system and an invalidating environment BPD...
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In the Wild with Patients Who Have a Personality Disorder

What You Actually See Across Real-World Settings If you’ve ever worked in mental health, or...
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The Apprenticeship Model of Psychotherapy Supervision

Learn psychotherapy by doing it—with expert guidance in real time What Makes This Different? Traditional...
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Borderline Personality Disorder It is Not What You Think

Rethinking One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses There is perhaps no diagnosis in psychiatry that...