We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular posts and arranged them here by topic.
Judith Matz on Creating a Paradigm Shift Around Dieting and Weight Stigma
Lauren Dockett
Psychotherapy Networker’s Lauren Dockett speaks with Judith Matz about the paradigm shift she’s helped design around dieting and weight stigma.
Read more...
Moving Clients from Paralysis into Action
Lauren Dockett
In the following interview, ecotherapist Patricia Hasbach explains how practitioners can address the rise in eco-anxiety and depression.
Read more...
Creating a Space in Therapy to Discuss the Paradox of Masculinity
Psychotherapy Networker
By Psychotherapy Networker - Discussions about masculinity and femininity have become part of everyday therapeutic discourse. Here, couples therapist Esther Perel offers her perspective on how therapy has evolved in its exploration of the role of gender identity and where we need to go from here.
Read more...
Moving from Anxiety to Action
Lauren Dockett
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.
Read more...
Reflections on the Field of Psychotherapy and His Latest Work
Psychotherapy Networker
Bestselling author, podcaster, and TED speaker Malcolm Gladwell has spent nearly two decades mesmerizing audiences into rediscovering the familiar and thinking about it in surprising, often fascinating new ways. In the following interview, he reflects on his encounters with the psychotherapy field and the impact his work has had on it.
Read more...
A Trauma Therapist’s Passage with Chicago Gang Members
Mary Jo Barrett
By Mary Jo Barrett - I'm on a five-day camping trip with 20 gang members as part of a program called Pride ROC. Most of these guys have suffered repeated abuse and severe poverty, seen friends and family members shot, stabbed, or fatally overdosed on drugs. Not surprisingly, every one of them suffers from complex trauma—which is why I’m here as a therapist, trying to apply what I know and use in my office in a place far away from the comfortable world I usually inhabit.
Read more...
40 Years After Therapy's Feminist Corrective, More Clinicians Are Talking About Gender. Are You?
Lauren Dockett
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.
Read more...
A Daughter Wrestles with Bittersweet Memories and a New, Looming Threat
Alicia Muñoz
By Alicia Muñoz - Sometimes family legacies can stir up complicated feelings and outright conflict.
Read more...
What Therapists Can Do to Help
Lauren Dockett
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.
Read more...
The Three Things Successful Mental Health Podcasts Have in Common
Chris Lyford
By Chris Lyford - The last 15 years has witnessed the meteoric rise of podcasts as a new means of educating, entertaining, and marketing. But while the podcast may be over a decade old, it shows no sign of slowing down, and experts say there’s a piece of the pie for everyone.
Read more...
Page 6 of 13 (124 Blog Posts)