May/June Issue of Psychotherapy Networker
By Rich Simon - In the newest issue of Psychotherapy Networker, which came out this week, Editor Rich Simon explains how stories connect us like nothing else can. We invited five therapists—all experts in their specialties—to share their stories of vulnerability and possibility.
So Your Client Doesn't Want to Connect?
By Steven Shapiro - What stands in the way of connecting effectively? I've found that the major difficulty stems, paradoxically enough, from trying too hard. Even if they're highly motivated to get into therapy, many clients have only limited tolerance for emotional connection, interpersonal…
Inhabiting the Moment with Traumatized Teens
By Martha Straus - What we therapists have to offer our young clients, more than anything, is our well-regulated, fully developed adult brain, with its mature capacity for awareness, perspective, appraisal, curiosity, and forgiveness on full display. According to the approach I use,…
What Therapists Can Learn from Improv
By Robert Taibbi - I started improv several years ago. It showed me how to be freer and more creative, providing a unique way of approaching relationships that's generous rather than closed, organic rather than scripted. While the theory and skills of therapy form the foundation of clinical practice,…
Helping Struggling Couples Find Their Sexual Style
By Barry McCarthy - What is a sexual style? It has to do with recognizing how different elements of a couple's sexual experience form a pattern—their way of initiating sex, how they pleasure each other and engage in erotic scenarios, the role of intercourse in their lovemaking, the afterplay scenarios…
The Five Dimensions of Good Anxiety Treatment
By Ryan Howes - Most people have plenty of reasons to feel anxious right now. Whether it’s around the uncertain forecast for the field of psychotherapy, or an overall unease with the current state of the world. Author David Barlow is widely considered the dean of anxiety researchers. In the following…
Susan Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy Master Class: The Essentials of EFT in Action
In this new Networker Master Class, EFT originator and renowned clinician Susan Johnson will show you the transformative EFT approach in action as she works with Michelle and Craig, an actual couple in crisis. You’ll get an exclusive front-row seat as she breaks down the moment-to-moment decisions that inform her approach so you can immediately incorporate her powerful, proven techniques into…
