
The Larger Conversation
Ideas that stretch our cultural perspectivesWe Need to Talk about Dating
Can Therapists Ethically Have an Online Dating Profile?Putting yourself out there on the dating scene can be intimidating enough, but therapists have the additional challenge of managing professional and personal... Read more
When Trauma Isn't Past: Therapy in the Midst of Crisis
A Conversation with Dr. James GordonJoin Dr. James Gordon as he discusses how you can help people even before they are out of the storm. Read more
Why Are Today’s Girls So Troubled?
A Neurobiological Guide for Parents"Girls on the Brink" presents new knowledge on girls' higher risk for mental health problems—and suggests what parents can do about it. Read more
Death and a Lifelong Love
Bracing for a Future without MarilynA psychotherapy icon grapples with the imminent death of his wife as she moves from palliative care to hospice care. Read more
Editor's Note: January/Feburary 2023
Exploring Beginnings and Endings in TherapyWelcome to the start of 2023—and the end of good ol’ 2022. Or maybe not so good? However we may feel about it, it’s over and done. Read more
The Best and Beloved Stories from 2022
Our Staff Picks from a Year of Psychotherapy NetworkerIn this year-end review, the staff of Psychotherapy Networker shares the articles and interviews that most resonated with readers and authors in 2022. Read more
How remarried families can reexamine their roles. Read more
A New Revolution Teaches Us About Women’s Psychological Fortitude
An Iranian Therapist's ReflectionAn Iranian-American therapist speaks to how the mix of grief, anger, and a new insistence on change in her former homeland, could be affecting clients. Read more
Culturally-Responsive Support for the Latinx Community
A Conversation with Leslie PriscillaNetworker sits down with the founder of Latinx Parenting Leslie Priscilla as she discusses key cultural and environmental factors that may influence your... Read more
Love Is An Action Verb
The Body Work of MotheringBefore we learn verbal language, we communicate through our bodies, making mothering a physical act of love. Read more
Embracing Gender-Pleasure
How to Feel Yummy in Our BodiesFor trans folks, attuning to gender-pleasure allows them to resist harmful cultural scripts—but it can be a radical act of resistance for cis folks too. Read more
Daring to Dance
How Can We Help Women Take Pleasure?Pleasure-taking connects women to their bodies, roots them in the present, and fosters resilience. What could be blocking today's women from such a seemingly... Read more
Fair Play at Home
Are Women Still Carrying the Heavier Load?Eve Rodsky is on a mission: to rebalance the "mental load" that many women still unfairly shoulder in domestic life, affecting their physical health... Read more
Editor's Note: November/December 2022
Listening to Women's VoicesRecently, researchers have highlighted just how much of the emotional labor and mental load women in heterosexual households still carry. Read more
Confronting the Climate Crisis
Helping Clients Face Uncertainty and FearPsychologist Elizabeth Allured is helping therapists and their clients contend with anxieties about the world’s climate crisis. Read more
"Why Won’t You Like Sports?"
The Father–Son Struggle with Gender ExpectationsAs young people move forward with new, more flexible frameworks for thinking about gender, it’s not always easy to bring parents along. Read more
Balancing Work, Home, and Life
An Interview with Eve RodskyNetworker sits down with Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play, to discuss the invisible work of domestic life. Read more
Wartime Trauma Treatment
Reflections from a Therapist Treating Ukrainian SurvivorsA therapist specializing in trauma treatment in the wake of human-made and natural disasters shares what she's seeing in her work with survivors of the war in... Read more
Three Myths About Domestic Violence
…And How Social Media is Changing the Way Clients Think About ItBefore talking to your own clients about domestic and intimate partner violence, here are three myths you should know about. Read more
Is Prolonged Grief a Disorder?
Exploring the New DSM DiagnosisAccording to grief experts, does a new diagnosis in the DSM pathologize a critical component of the human experience? Read more
Breaking the Silence on Postpartum Stress
How Therapists Can HelpAuthor Karen Kleiman argues that postpartum distress is normal—and should be normalized more in our society. Read more
Wendy Durant helps clinicians support families after gun violence in their community. Read more
VIDEO: Prolonged Grief Disorder
Does This New Diagnosis Help or Hurt?What does the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder mean to clinicians and grieving individuals? Read more
Crossing the Urban-Rural Divide
Time to Address Unchallenged PrejudicesIn Hammerfest, Norway, known as the northernmost town in the world, a therapist is challenging geographical narcissism. Read more
Mental Health or Marxism?
Therapists on the Fight over Social Emotional Learning in SchoolsSocial-emotional learning isn’t entirely new, but as more districts emphasize the curricula in the wake of COVID, confusion from parents appears to be on the... Read more
Decolonizing Mental Health
The Healing Power of CommunityTraining must go beyond the intellectual exercise of grasping the concept of racism. The real work is getting out of our chairs and going into our communities... Read more
A Therapist's 40-Year Learning Curve
Maybe the Hard Way Is How We Learn BestOver 40 years, a long-term client gives a therapist an opportunity to recover from clinical mistakes and apply new frameworks and modalities. Read more
A Simple Practice for Finding Light in the Dark
Helping Kids Remain Calm When the World Seems ScaryGiven the wildfires, Covid variants, hurricanes, droughts, earthquakes and periods of social unrest that abound these days, the world can feel like a scary... Read more
Therapy in the Age of Trump
Becoming "Connectors and Trust-Builders"William Doherty offered an expanded vision of therapy and outlined concrete steps therapists can take as “connectors and trust-builders” to address the... Read more
The Physics of Vulnerability
And the Courage to Show UpBestselling author Brené Brown’s opening keynote address ignited the Symposium audience with its call to take risks and have the courage to be vulnerable. Read more