Even behind the darkest clouds, the sun still glows.
My work focuses on helping people to stay alive – and to actually want to stay alive – amid suicidal thoughts.
Speaker
Author
Psychotherapist
Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts
My latest book, Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts, was named one of the best mental health books of 2022 by Mashable. Unlike my previous book for professionals, this one is geared toward family, friends, partners, and others who care about someone with suicidal thoughts.
Helping the Suicidal Person
My first book provides a highly practical toolbox for people in the helping professions, from graduate students to seasoned psychotherapists and allied professionals.
Helping the Suicidal Person
My first book provides a highly practical toolbox for people in the helping professions, from graduate students to seasoned psychotherapists and allied professionals.
Psychotherapy
I help people with a wide range of needs, but I specialize in helping people with suicidal thoughts, as well as their loved ones.
Speaking of Suicide
My website Speaking of Suicide is for people who consider suicide & loved ones, suicide loss survivors, attempt survivors, mental health professionals, & others who care. It has been viewed almost 7 million times since 2013.
From the Blog
We Are All Passengers on a Submersible
Like millions of other people in the world, I was transfixed this past week by reports of five people stuck in a locked, cramped cylinder deep in the ocean near the Titanic wreckage. I compulsively checked the news for days -- until the authorities discovered on...
The Sneaky Wisdom of Failure
About 15 years ago, I promised a publisher I’d write a book called Suicide Assessment and Intervention for Social Workers. And I wrote. For many hours, day and night, I wrote. And then, inscrutably, words became boulders too heavy to push onto the page. I tried. I...
10 Self-Care Tips for Therapists (& Anyone Else Who’s Stressed)
People often ask me how I manage to study, teach, treat, talk, and write about suicidality nearly every day, without despair or hopelessness crippling me. In case it’s helpful to you, here’s self-care advice I put together, based on my own experiences. Talk about your...
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