Recent Blog Posts

Treating the Mixed-Agenda Couple

Bill Doherty On An Approach For Unaligned Relationships

Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?

Tough CustomersBy Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people!

You Don’t Have To Choose

Casey Truffo On Doing The Work You Love And Making It Pay

The Dance of Intimacy

Hedy Schleifer On The Art And Science Of Nonverbal Connection

Where Have All the “Patients” Gone? Facing the Realities of Practice Today

Where Have the Patients Gone? By Rich Simon A thousand years ago, during the palmy days of generous insurance reimbursement, therapists could maintain the illusion that, since therapy was paid for by an unseen hidden hand, clinical practice was somehow untouched by the tacky subject of money. Even the style of therapy reflected this disjunction:

Continuing Education Approvals

The Psychotherapy Networker is approved as a provider of continuing education by the following national professional organizations and state boards:


PSYCHOLOGISTS
  • American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Psychotherapy Networker maintains responsibility for this program. Provider #0912.
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
  • National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) - Provider #5669.
  • Illinois Department of Professional Regulation - License #197-000076.
  • South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation - Approved Provider #430.
CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY COUNSELORS
  • National Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) - Approved Provider #202.
  • California Foundation for Advancement of Addiction Professionals (CAADAC) - Approved Provider #OS-06-202-0514.
SOCIAL WORKERS
  • Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) - Approved Provider #1084.
  • National Association of Social Workers (NASW) - Approved Provider #886413961.
    • #886413961-5058 for Audio Home study, #886413961-5060 for Bi-monthly Magazine quiz, #886413961-5059 for Online Courses.
  • Illinois Department of Professional Regulation - Approved License #159-000600.
MARRIAGE and FAMILY THERAPISTS
  • Connecticut Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (CTAMFT) Approved Provider #CT-2581.
  • South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation - Approved Provider #430.
  • Illinois Department of Professional Regulation - Approved License #168-000128.
  • Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists - Approved Provider #168.
  • Wisconsin Association for Marriage and Family Therapy - Approved Provider For Magazine Quiz: #WAMFT712007, for all other online courses, #WAMFT712005.
CALIFORNIA SOCIAL WORKERS and MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS
  • California Board of Behavioral Sciences - Approved Provider #PCE 1937.
FLORIDA SOCIAL WORKERS, MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS, and COUNSELORS
  • Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling - CE Broker Approved Provider #50-1661.
OHIO SOCIAL WORKERS, MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS and COUNSELORS
  • Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapists Board - Approved Provider #RCST070601.