We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular posts and arranged them here by topic.
Four Ways to Push Pause on a Verbal Bully
Kate Cohen-Posey
By Kate Cohen-Posey - We live in an age in which using toxic verbiage against others has almost become the norm. Here's how we can help clients deal with these kinds of situations in the moment.
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In Spite of Loss, Learning to Find Joy Where You Can
Lori Gottlieb
By Lori Gottlieb - What do you do when your life’s expectations get turned upside down?
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...And the Transformative Session That Inspired Its Creator
Mary Sykes Wylie
By Mary Sykes Wylie - Cognitive behavioral therapy is arguably the most successful therapy ever developed. But where did this streamlined, efficient, practical therapy come from that would prove such a good match for our fast-paced, high-tech civilization?
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Is Our Goal Spiritual Growth or Symptom Reduction?
Ronald Siegel
By Ronald Siegel - As mindfulness practices work their way into the psychotherapeutic mainstream, we’re starting to ask more clinically sophisticated questions: Who needs what practice when? What about the downsides of some mindfulness interventions?
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Following the Spark to Create Connection
Ron Taffel
By Ron Taffel - As a field, we've been unconscious of the nature of the conversation that energizes our models and techniques. Without it, treatment can be a textbook exercise lacking the power to make clients feel a truly alive and personal connection with their therapist.
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Dafna Lender Demonstrates Three Proven Techniques
Dafna Lender
Any therapist who works with kids will tell you that incorporating play in therapy is a great way to break the ice, reduce anxiety, and strengthen the therapeutic alliance. But as Dafna Lender explains, it also works great with adults. Here, she demonstrates three of her favorite techniques.
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CBT Isn't as Manualized as You Think, Says Judith Beck
Mary Sykes Wylie
By Mary Sykes Wylie - Today, cognitive behavioral therapy is among the most widely practiced and promulgated approach in the world. But for all its mantle of scientific rigor and official approval, many therapists find CBT's "lab therapy" hard to love, if not downright dislikable. In the following interview, renowned CBT clinician Judith Beck explains how the method works, and why it's gotten a bum rap.
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Moving through a Place between "No Longer" and "Not Yet"
Joan Borysenko
In our stressful, tech-obsessed, and data-based world, psychologist Joan Borysenko reminds us that the nonlinear, nonquantitative wisdom of the heart and spirit is the source of peace, healing, and joy. In the following clip from her Symposium keynote, she explains how resilience is more than just "bouncing back"—it's transformative.
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A Sensorimotor Approach to Dealing with Self-Hatred
Janina Fisher
By Janina Fisher - No matter how much we're loved and valued in our adult lives, judgmental parts within us are standing ready to condemn us as inadequate or undeserving. Using Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, I help clients suffering from self-hatred befriend the parts they unconsciously disown.
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An Unusual Self-Care Tool Has Taken the Internet by Storm
Chris Lyford
By Chris Lyford - Some are speculating that ASMR, a soothing physical and emotional experience that 20 to 40 percent of people claim to have, triggered by particular sounds and images, may have therapeutic usefulness. But with the bulk of ASMR videos being created by non-therapists, it's also stirring up controversy.
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