January/February 2026: Dating Apps & the Intimacy Crisis: Unexpected Approaches to Our Newest Relationship Challenges

This issue focuses on the latest relationship trends and approaches to working with romantic and platonic relationships in therapy. Articles cover ditching neutrality in couples therapy using Terry Real’s Relational Life Therapy approach, how to work with clients who want to show you their online dating profiles, a profile of Couples Therapy star Orna Guralnik, how to do “friendship therapy,” and the challenges of platonic love. Other articles explore a creative approach to writing session notes, rethinking suicidality in neurodivergent teens as a more benign sensory and emotional overwhelm, six predictions about what therapy trends will arise in 2026, how to proceed when you find yourself attracted to a client, and an AEDP and trauma-informed approach to working with a newly partnered client suffering from the trauma of parental abandonment.