Speak Up, or Stay Quiet?
By Psychotherapy Networker
What practical guidance can you offer a therapist who has been working with a client that has started expressing misinformed views rooted in conspiracy theories? Five clinicians weigh in.
Daily Blog
Interactive Discussions with Networker Contributors
By Psychotherapy Networker
The Networker's senior writer, Lauren Dockett, sat down for a live conversation and Q&A with psychiatrist, therapist, and program consultant at the IFS Institute, Frank Anderson. They discussed parenting during a pandemic, using an IFS approach to talk with children, and much more.
Daily Blog
Take Years of Issues Wherever You Go!
By Psychotherapy Networker
The Networker magazine app is available on all your mobile devices! It features current issues, archives of past issues, videos, and blogs!
Daily Blog
And How to Regulate Emotions After a Diagnosis
By Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz and Marsha M. Linehan
Although you can’t change unpredictable and uncontrollable situations, you can change how you respond. You can regain a sense of control and emotional balance by learning how to regulate strong emotions.
Daily Blog
Beating the New Year’s Resolution Blues
By Psychotherapy Networker
What are some strategies to help clients maintain hope when they don't meet their expectations for themselves? Five clinicians offer advice.
Daily Blog
Interactive Discussions with Networker Contributors
By Psychotherapy Networker
The Networker's director of CE, Zach Taylor, sat down for a live conversation and Q&A with therapist and author Dafna Lender, discussing Dafna's recent article and approach to working with intergenerational trauma.
Daily Blog
How to Involve Families When Treating Teens
By Laura Kastner
It’s a tall order to maintain a teen client’s privacy and build rapport with them when you’re including their parents in the mix. But having the right kind of confidentiality agreement in place can make this work a lot easier.
Daily Blog
Interactive Discussions with Networker Contributors
By Psychotherapy Networker
Last month, the Networker's director of CE, Zach Taylor, hosted therapist, author, and polyvagal specialist Deb Dana for the inaugural installment of "Networker Live," a series of live conversations and Q&As with the magazine's top contributors.
Daily Blog
Eight Tips for Resetting in 2021
How do we hit the reset button as we begin a new year? Research on burnout across professions says the answer isn’t less work but rather more meaning and an increased sense of efficacy.
Daily Blog
Take a Break, or Keep Going?
By Psychotherapy Networker
What practical guidance can you offer a therapist whose personal grief is so deep that she's finding it hard to stay present for clients? Six clinicians weigh in.
Daily Blog
A Reflection on Bipolar Disorder and Suicide
Dan Siegel, author and cofounder of the Mindsight Institute, was a close friend of Networker editor Rich Simon for over two decades. Rich's family has asked Dan to share his reflections on bipolar disorder, and Rich's courage in facing a decades-long struggle with an illness many still don't understand well. As Dan writes, "He will always be a hero to me."
Daily Blog
And How Relationships Are Changing in a Pandemic
There’s a profound change occurring in our relationship to space. In working remotely, it feels at times like we’re doing home visits. In video calls, we enter each other’s intimate spaces: kitchens and messy bedrooms. We’re not working from home—we’re working with home.
Daily Blog
An AEDP Approach
By Judy Silvan
A core tenet of AEDP teaches us that humans have a built-in, primitive drive to seek out healing attachment, that if something inside us feels wrong, we move toward fixing it.
Daily Blog
Let Us Know How YOU Would Tackle This Situation in Your Practice...
By Psychotherapy Networker
Even the best therapists rely on advice from peers. In the spirit of building community, we're introducing Clinician's Quandary, a new forum where you can weigh in on how you'd handle a particular clinical quagmire. Here's this month's Quandary.
Daily Blog
Five Clinicians Weigh In
By Psychotherapy Networker
A therapist is ready for a new challenge, a new context in which to put their clinical skills to work. Here, five clinicians offer practical guidance on finding rewarding projects.
Daily Blog
Therapists’ Passions and What They Teach Us about Practice
By Psychotherapy Networker
Therapists aren’t just therapists. We’re people, with interests, hobbies, and passions that not only give us fulfilment outside of work, but enhance our ability to return to the office day after day with a clear head and renewed focus. And some therapists’ passions, it turns out, are pretty darn cool.
Daily Blog
A Pioneer of CBT on his Journey to “Feeling Great”
David Burns's book, Feeling Good, brought the cognitive revolution to the public. In his new book, Feeling Great, he draws on decades of clinical work to present readers with what he calls, “cognitive therapy on steroids.”
Daily Blog
Clinicians Weigh in on Pandemic Parenting
By Psychotherapy Networker
A therapist has been working with a parent on implementing a kinder, gentler style of interaction with her boisterous kids, but the coronavirus is creating so much stress that she's reverted to doling out harsh punishments. Here, five clinicians offer practical guidance.
Daily Blog
12 Tips to Get You in the Side Door
By Kate Sample
Building a relationship with a heavily armored, developmentally regressed, profoundly sad young adolescent is no small feat. This is where the art of this work comes in.
Daily Blog
How to Broach the Topic Appropriately
Talking to clients of color about race and experiences of racial trauma is critical. But many white clinicians struggle with how to open these discussions.
Daily Blog
Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch discuss “Dear Therapists”
The therapists and writers have teamed up to produce a podcast that addresses a listener’s problem, provides specific advice, and then checks in to see whether or not it helped—all the while trying to work together as a team and provide a unified response.
Daily Blog
Dan Siegel Shares a Life-Changing Therapeutic Moment
By Daniel Siegel - A therapist’s skill base and experience are vital to good therapy. But they’re rarely enough. The following story, taken from Daniel Siegel's 2017 Networker Symposium Dinner Storytelling piece, highlights the need to bring vulnerability and some measure of risk into the treatment room, letting go of any secret ambition to become a Master of the Therapeutic Universe. There’s no such person.
Daily Blog
How to Find and Reaffirm Shared Values
For the roughly 23 percent of married couples who don’t share a political affiliation, disagreements over a party or candidate can easily escalate into personal attacks that threaten an otherwise healthy relationship.
Daily Blog
A Message from Jack Kornfield
Clinical psychologist and author Jack Kornfield has been instrumental in bringing mindfulness to Western audiences. With candor and humor, he shares a moving story about how mindfulness can make us more patient, compassionate human beings, and explains what it means for therapists to be "heart-holders" in today's society.
Daily Blog
The Journey of Grief Groups
By Sherry Cormier
The word healing means to make whole, but coming to a sense of wholeness after a significant loss is a difficult process that can’t be rushed.
Daily Blog
Page 1 of 54 (1337 Items)