Thank You!

I want to extend a sincere “Thank You” to the AAMFT Board of Directors in offering me the privilege and honor to serve as AAMFT’s first female CEO. AAMFT and I are not new to one another; I’ve been happy to call AAMFT my professional home for over 34 years. It was a bit of [...]

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Meet Your Central Staff

Membership Department Cecile David, Director of Membership Cecile has been with AAMFT since 2007 and has over 25 years of association and member services experience. Before AAMFT, she worked in a travel association where she created a library system for quick access to information and improved efficiency in service. She brought this same dedication to [...]

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When the World Ceased to Exist, As We Know It: A Russian Therapist’s Experience Working with Ukrainian Refugees

You — My country, hope and sorrow —     Homeland. I'm going home, Let them shout it's ugly, But we like it all the same —DDT (Russian rock group proclaimed illegal in Russian Federation in 2022) Ukrainian refugees The Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and the prolonged escalation of the international armed [...]

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Part 1 Working with the Sexual Cycle in Couples Therapy: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How

What Are Sexual Cycles and Why Work With Them? In this article, we want to help couple clinicians work with the sexual cycle as intently as with the emotional cycle, to forge the strongest bond in couples’ bodies, minds, and hearts. When we fall in love, we all ache to be loved deeply and desired [...]

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Benefits and Risks: The TikTok Phenomenon

Marriage and family therapists (MFTs) are uniquely positioned to assess interactions between members of a system. As clinicians, we are trained to recognize the influence of parts of the client system that may never enter the therapy room and include them in our therapeutic equations. An evolving systemic member in absentia resides not in the [...]

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Helping Survivors of Suicide

Debra and Keith* were back in my office, still trying to decide what to do. She was highly distressed over their marriage; he was equally confused about her distress. After several agonizing months of back-and-forth in both individual and marital therapy, she concluded the only way to move forward was alone. The reasons she provided [...]

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Coping with the Loss of a Client

Grief and loss can be a challenging topic to discuss for most; words do not bring back the loved one who was lost. Those who surround you may be extra cautious not to bring up memories or topics for fear of triggering you or causing you emotional pain. This, in turn, creates a vicious cycle [...]

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How MFTs Can Support Transnationals Through Their Grief Process

Transnationalism Immigration is a significant life change that can bring about various emotional challenges, including grief and loss (Falicov, 2019). It can also complicate the grief process when a loss occurs post-immigration (Falicov, 2019). As a result, marriage and family therapists (MFTs) can play a critical role in helping immigrants navigate these emotional challenges. MFTs [...]

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Children’s Reactions to Death

At some point in time in our lives, we experience the loss of loved ones. Whether that be parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, friends, and/or others about whom we care. Commonly, the perception is that these individuals will pass when we are adults; it is challenging to fathom that children will experience death before they [...]

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