VIDEO: Addressing Climate Fears in Therapy
Moving Clients from Paralysis into Action
In the following interview, ecotherapist Patricia Hasbach explains how practitioners can address the rise in eco-anxiety and depression.
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What Climate Change Could Mean for Therapists
Moving from Anxiety to Action
By Lauren Dockett - In 2017, the American Psychological Association published a guide to the psychological impact of today’s grim environmental realities on clients and communities, and says therapists should expect to deal with increased levels of eco-anxiety, depression, fatalism, suicide, PTSD, and aggression as natural disasters increase. Their advice? Let clients acknowledge their sorrow and fears, and then help them find empowerment through action.
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VIDEO: Talking Race in Psychotherapy
Deran Young’s Call for Action
Deran Young of Black Therapists Rock talks to Psychotherapy Networker’s Lauren Dockett about what the field can do to fight professional isolation and systemic racism within its ranks.
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VIDEO: The 3 Keys to Helping Clients Navigate Sexual Problems
You Don't Need to Be an Expert to Help Clients Get "Dumb and Happy"
Sex and relationship therapist Stephen Snyder talks with Psychotherapy Networker's Lauren Dockett about three simple things to do when you find yourself becoming a client's "accidental sex therapist."
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Revisiting Masculinity in the Age of #MeToo
40 Years After Therapy's Feminist Corrective, More Clinicians Are Talking About Gender. Are You?
By Lauren Dockett - We live in a time when gender identity has gained a new visibility under the banner of #MeToo. But therapists are struggling with how to actually address the highly charged issues it can raise in the therapy room. The goal this time is a more encompassing conversation about the way society genders and is gendered that has profound implications for both men and women.
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The Gladwell Phenomenon
Therapists Say Fellow Clinicians Can Take a Page from Malcom Gladwell's Approach to Marketing
By Lauren Dockett - Even if you’re not one of the millions who’ve cracked his books, read his articles, or listened to his talks, you’re still probably aware of Malcolm Gladwell as someone who’s carved out a distinctive cultural niche. Therapists say fellow clinicians interested in reaching a wide readership can take a page from Gladwell’s practice for understanding the marketplace for ideas.
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Increasing Access to Mental Health Care for Seniors
What Therapists Can Do to Help
By Lauren Dockett - American seniors suffer disproportionately from mental health issues and suicide. And many, these days, are having trouble getting the therapy they need through Medicare. Now, a bipartisan bill that could increase seniors’ mental health care options is being brought before Congress, and therapists can play a part in getting it passed.
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The Masculinity Paradox
What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Man Today?
The #MeToo movement has returned the field to many of the issues feminists raised decades ago. This time, however, there’s a new focus on avoiding us-versus-them thinking and exploring the great terra incognita of couples work—the inner world of men and their vulnerability. *Includes an interview with Esther Perel.
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Clinician's Digest
The Rise of Eco-Anxiety
Dire climate reports and grim environmental realities are generating a new kind of eco-anxiety. What can therapists do?
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The Man Who Became an Adjective
No One Writes about Psychology Like Malcolm Gladwell
No one writes about psychology with more irresistible readability—and book sales—than 2019 Symposium featured speaker Malcolm Gladwell.
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The Addict in All of Us
An Interview with Gabor Maté
By Lauren Dockett and Rich Simon - Over the years, physician Gabor Maté has challenged his audiences to stop asking “why the addiction?” and start asking “why the pain?” Here, he explains his view of how addictive patterns of behavior are rooted in alienation and emotional suffering.
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Confronting Inherited Trauma
My Journey into Family Constellations
By Lauren Dockett - Many therapists know their way around family systems. But what if they could create three-dimensional experiences to help clients shed the pain of lingering traumas that can get passed down through generations? As research into the epigenetics of trauma develops, a reporter looks into an unusual approach to healing.
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Fully Present Sex
How Mindfulness Can Heighten Desire, Arousal, and Satisfaction
By Lauren Dockett - When sex becomes fraught or painful, fear and worries can overtake this important source of pleasure. But clinicians and clients are embracing a nonmedical solution: mindfulness practices that cultivate sexual self-understanding, desire, and pleasure in the bedroom—and the effects are mind-blowing.
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The Bottom-Up Approach of Somatic Experiencing
A Close-Up Look at Peter Levine's Work with a Trauma Survivor
By Lauren Dockett - Peter Levine is the originator of a form of body psychotherapy called Somatic Experiencing (SE), a captivating but sometimes puzzling approach. Instead of asking questions about events that might elicit pain, Levine focuses on the body, zeroing in meticulously on what’s happening in the moment. Here's how it unfolded with his patient, TJ.
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VIDEO: Using the Arts in Trauma Treatment
Expressive Art Therapist Cathy Malchiodi Weighs In
Psychotherapy Networker’s Lauren Dockett speaks with influential art and expressive art therapist Cathy Malchiodi about the broadening of her her field, how talk therapists can incorporate the arts to help clients connect and express, and why her work resonates so well with trauma clients.
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VIDEO: Can We Really Be Healthy at Any Size?
Judith Matz on Creating a Paradigm Shift Around Dieting and Weight Stigma
Psychotherapy Networker’s Lauren Dockett speaks with Judith Matz about the paradigm shift she’s helped design around dieting and weight stigma.
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VIDEO: Addressing Climate Fears in Therapy
Moving Clients from Paralysis into Action
In the following interview, ecotherapist Patricia Hasbach explains how practitioners can address the rise in eco-anxiety and depression.
Daily Blog
What Climate Change Could Mean for Therapists
Moving from Anxiety to Action
By Lauren Dockett - In 2017, the American Psychological Association published a guide to the psychological impact of today’s grim environmental realities on clients and communities, and says therapists should expect to deal with increased levels of eco-anxiety, depression, fatalism, suicide, PTSD, and aggression as natural disasters increase. Their advice? Let clients acknowledge their sorrow and fears, and then help them find empowerment through action.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: Talking Race in Psychotherapy
Deran Young’s Call for Action
Deran Young of Black Therapists Rock talks to Psychotherapy Networker’s Lauren Dockett about what the field can do to fight professional isolation and systemic racism within its ranks.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: The 3 Keys to Helping Clients Navigate Sexual Problems
You Don't Need to Be an Expert to Help Clients Get "Dumb and Happy"
Sex and relationship therapist Stephen Snyder talks with Psychotherapy Networker's Lauren Dockett about three simple things to do when you find yourself becoming a client's "accidental sex therapist."
Daily Blog
Walk and Talk
Psychotherapy Takes a Stroll
What if a park bench was your waiting room, and nature your co-therapist? A growing group of practitioners, who stroll with their clients not just every once in a while, but for most every session, see special benefits in conducting sessions outdoors.
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High Times in Therapy
Are We Ready to Talk Pot?
Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have legalized medicinal or recreational marijuana, or both. But sizeable protests against legalization are emerging, often aided or helmed by psychiatrists concerned by the drug’s potential effects on young people.
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The Inheritance Within
Coming Face to Face with Our Ancestors
For decades, Bert Hellinger and his Family Constellations approach have been a lightning rod for controversy. But the latest research on epigenetics and the multigenerational impact of trauma have given new credibility to some of the underlying principles of this work.
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From Margin to Mainstream
Peter Levine’s Bottom-Up Approach to Healing
Body psychotherapy, once shrouded in controversy, has gained growing acceptance in the wider field. So how do these popular bottom-up approaches actually work?
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The Masculinity Paradox
What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Man Today?
The #MeToo movement has returned the field to many of the issues feminists raised decades ago. This time, however, there’s a new focus on avoiding us-versus-them thinking and exploring the great terra incognita of couples work—the inner world of men and their vulnerability. *Includes an interview with Esther Perel.
Magazine Article
Clinician's Digest
The Rise of Eco-Anxiety
Dire climate reports and grim environmental realities are generating a new kind of eco-anxiety. What can therapists do?
Magazine Article
The Man Who Became an Adjective
No One Writes about Psychology Like Malcolm Gladwell
No one writes about psychology with more irresistible readability—and book sales—than 2019 Symposium featured speaker Malcolm Gladwell.
Magazine Article
Therapy’s Psychedelic Renaissance
A Different Kind of Healing Journey
It’s been nearly 30 years since SSRIs came on the scene, but despite their ubiquity and pairing with a variety of talk- and body-centered treatments, the rates of PTSD, depression, and anxiety are soaring. Could the ineffable insights and experiences of psychedelic drugs revolutionize the practice of psychotherapy?
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Silent and Confused
Opening Conversations with Men in the Wake of #MeToo
Most men publicly support #MeToo, but privately—very privately, often too privately even to share with their intimate partners—some are disoriented and wrestling with questions about the changing norms that shape their relationships with women. Meanwhile, therapists are examining how to bring issues raised by this movement more directly into their clinical approaches.
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Who's Steering the Boat?
Navigating Therapy with Today's Clients
Today’s clients are shifting out of their customary position of mannerly deference and asserting far more specifically what they want—and don’t want—from therapy. Increasingly, therapists are moving from the role of acknowledged expert in the room to something approaching an informed colleague. For some, it’s a sea change in professional identity, but a growing body of evidence suggests it pays off.
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Lauren Dockett is Senior Writer for Psychotherapy Networker.
