Our new online course: Psychotherapy with Men is offered for 5 CE Credits and explores the issues involved with working with men in psychotherapy and counseling. As ethics expert Melba Vasquez points out in this course, therapists have an ethical obligation to understand the male perspective and adapt their own assumptions about therapy to fit their clients' views.  Of course, being effective with male clients can enhance our practices and the bottom line, too. No matter how well-intentioned or empathic they consider themselves, many therapists, both consciously and unconsciously, may often be out of tune with their male clients. While the process of mutual attunement can develop after several sessions, it seems reasonable to suspect that a considerable number of men, feeling like they're playing on someone else's field, feel so uncomfortable that they don't make the initial call to come to therapy or don't stick around long enough for therapy to actually take root and cohere. Our new online course, Psychotherapy with Men, is based on five videos of experts' presentations. It will help therapists learn the unique perspective, language and skills to bring male clients into therapy and improve therapeutic outcomes. Some of the topics covered in the course include: Using paradoxical intention, exaggeration and storytelling in psychotherapy with men The countertransference issues women and male therapists bring to therapy with male clients The transference issues male clients bring to therapy with female and male therapists Talking about depression from a masculine perspective How women therapists should present themselves and talk with male clients in the first session Awareness of our own internalized gender issues Forming men's groups and exploration of the unique process of such a group Using Motivational Interviewing to help men conceptualize their issues

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