Now in our 8th year, we’re once again looking to expand our academic and professional faculty and to welcome new regular authors to the team. And even if you’re not quite ready to join the team directly, we also have some other ways you can help.

Manipulation — the art of hoodwinking people into giving you what you want — is an age-old problem. And dealing with manipulative behavior requires something more than the well-worn perspectives of traditional psychology.

On behalf of all of us at CounsellingResource.com, I’d like to extend the warmest welcome to our two newest contributors to the ‘Ask the Psychologist’ column, Dr Cynthia Giocomarra and Dr Alisa Robinson.

For Mac users trying out OpenMeta tagging, the news just keeps getting better.

Here’s a quick update on our suggestions for building a site featuring your private practice, including a promo code for popular outsourcing service TherapySites.com.

There’s a trio of updates for today: we review Leap for Mac, offering tagging superpowers; we review Versions for Mac, which can connect you up to the time machine that is Subversion; and we reveal a few funky facts about the site’s founder and editor.

Congratulations, Sarah! Readers who have enjoyed the blog articles by British poet, translator and psychotherapist Sarah Luczaj might like to check out her new book of poetry, An Urgent Request.