As counselors, we come in contact with clients who are angry or heartbroken and oftentimes feel defeated. This sense of pain and loss is frequently realized in the forensic setting in which I work with parents who are desperate to rebuild a parent-child relationship that is severely damaged or estranged.

No one – especially professional counselors – would dispute the fact that psychotherapy is an effective way to help people deal with depression. However, a recent study claims that the benefits of traditional “talk therapy” are less effective than once thought. According to the co-authors of a recent peer-reviewed article