Let’s face it—no less than the clients we serve, therapists are largely creatures of habit. And like them, we can often find that our busy, stressful lives get too jam-packed and leave us little room for the spontaneous, unexpected, and exploratory.

It's easy for us at Psychotherapy Networker headquarters to tell you about all the wonders and benefits that await you at our annual Symposium. But the best—and most unbiased—endorsement for the Symposium can only come from our attendees.

How do the supershrinks do what they do? Are they made or born? Is it a matter of temperament or training? Have they discovered a secret unknown to other practicing clinicians, or are their superior results simply a fluke, more measurement error than reality?

Genuine learning is conveyed via experience; something happening that resonates emotionally as well as intellectually, something that literally alters the wiring of our brains, changes the sense we have of ourselves, even changes us.

Even strong emotions that are difficult to work with guide the therapy in the direction of what’s important. The key is knowing how to use them in a way that moves the therapy forward and leads to relationship repair.

Therapy and coaching have a lot of common ground, a fact that partially accounts for why many therapists are looking to expand or refocus their careers with coaching.

We know that not every session needs to bring dramatic change. But then we have sessions that feel like we’re slogging along with lead weights around our feet, getting absolutely nowhere.

Falling into the groove of running an established and successful-enough private practice can lull therapists into a false sense of security.

The black shadow is a mostly unconscious, deep-seated belief in the myth of black inferiority. A term I coined myself, the black shadow serves to encapsulate the dysfunctional racist belief, promulgated in America since times of slavery and internalized in African Americans, that blacks are less worthy than whites.

Simply having a website is only the first step in attracting new clients; you need to make sure they actually stick around to set up their first consultation.