Emerging Trends in Counseling and Psychotherapy

Emerging Trends in Counseling and Psychotherapy

May 10, 2024
Dr. Matthew Mandelbaum

Explore the latest methodologies and approaches that are shaping the future of therapy.

Sensitive, Intelligent People Benefit from Therapeutic Tools for Life.

Through counseling and psychotherapy, learn to build transferable knowledge, skills, and abilities to make a peaceful, joyful, & creative life.

Gain mindfulness to be in the moment,
see patterns and differences, and make effective choices
based on contextualized understanding.

Psychologists can:

Meet the person where they are.

Understanding leads to collaborative learning, problem solving and developing interventions.

Utilize strengths to help ameliorate problems and enhance outcomes.

In a strength-based model, the client brings a host of capacities upon which to capitalize to form the basis of personal growth.

Provide structure, training, & skills that to use in real time in the real world.

Therapy can be used to solve actual problems beyond the time in a therapy session.

Clients can improve their agency and transfer their knowledge, skills, and abilities across life’s domains.

Support increasing a person’s perception of viable options.

By improving thinking capacity and emotion regulation, clients can broaden their interpretation of situations to develop multiple possibilities for understanding and solving problems.

Use technology to improve therapy access.

Through licenses and authorizations as a psychologist, Dr. Mandelbaum can help people in 41 states.   As you take your therapeutic tools with you, you can also bring your psychologist with you in these states where you live, work, or travel.

Psychologists can help people make improvements in multiple aspects of their lives.

Psychologists can help develop client capacities with:

Validation – affirmation of experience.

Insight – understanding of the context of problems and situations.

Cheerleading – encouragement leading to self-motivation.

Problem solving – examination of phenomena for results-focused solutions.

Emotion regulation – understanding, managing, and changing emotions.

Stress management – how to handle, tolerate, and reduce stress.

Relationship building – creating effective, positive relationships.

Mindfulness – being in the present moment with sustained, non-judgemental effectiveness.


Embark on an iterative process of personal development where positive feedback loops improve agency and build a life of worth.



Increase self care and active problem solving to:

Understand capacities for personal agency.

Learn to utilize customized stress reduction and emotion regulation strategies.

Engage in incubator experiences to practice strategies and skills to:

Improve agency.

Overcome challenges.

Articulate hopes and dreams.

Develop strategies and tactics to achieve goals.

Advance competencies across self-domains to activate:

Self-determination (autonomy, competence and relatedness),

Self-efficacy

Self-esteem,

and realize hopes and dreams.

Engage in self-improvement while making a larger social impact to:

Construct positive influences on family, friends, organizations, community, & society.

Utilize personal gains from practices to:

Create and employ valuable products, services, and experiences.

Improve individual and collective agency.


Source: Dr. Matthew G. Mandelbaum, PhD

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