How to Harness this Great MotivatorNeuroscientists have recently established that emotion is the prime organizing force shaping how we cope with challenges. Now psychotherapists are learning how to work with emotion, rather than trying to control it.
Connecting with the Shut-down ClientResonating with clients’ inner experience is key to being able to work effectively with emotion in therapy. With traumatized and shutdown clients, however, becoming attuned is easy to talk about, but extremely hard to do.
A Clinician’s GuideOur understanding of what happens when we weep hasn’t progressed much beyond Freud’s theory of catharsis. However, knowing how our nervous systems work can help guide what we do—and don’t do—when clients burst into tears.

Too many therapists today confuse the healing release of tears with the helpless despair triggered by reliving traumatizing memories in therapy.
Embracing the New WisdomAndrew Weil, Mary Pipher, and Dan Siegel, along with 150 other presenters, not only helped the Networker Symposium celebrate its 35th anniversary, but illuminated a new vision of integrative mental healthcare.
The Latest Advances in Marketing Your PracticeBy Joe Bavonese
Using Men’s Groups to Enhance Couples TherapyBy Robert Garfield
By Ryan Howes
By John McCarthy