Culture & Society

"The larger forces shaping our communities, our clients, and ourselves"

Wrestling with a Daughter's Faith

An Agnostic Mother Learns the Challenge of True Acceptance

Is Honesty the Best Policy?: A Review of 'You Hurt My Feelings'

A New Film on Flattery, White Lies, and Nondirective Therapy

From Grind Culture to Work Malaise

The Cultural Trends Driving Our Clients' Careers

Organizational Management at Home

An Interview with Eve Rodsky on Workplace Tools for Couples

The Anxious Warrior

Fighting Fear with Krav Maga

The Heart of Gladness

Why Joy and Sorrow Need Each Other
Article May 5, 2025

How to Build Your Brand as a Therapist

9 Influencers Reveal Their Unconventional Choices

Nine successful therapists reveal their most unconventional steps to branding themselves as mental health influencers. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

The Ever-Shifting Norms of Psychotherapy

Four Thought Leaders on Our Evolving Field

Four thought-leaders take stock of the shifting contours of our field. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

The founder of Brown Girl Therapy shares her countercultural secret to building an online community. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

Bestselling author and podcaster shows you how less can be more in branding. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

A renowned therapist, author and influencer challenges the popular wisdom behind branding yourself as a therapist. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

After landing a Masterclass series, a renowned relationship expert shares her hard-won formula for discerning what projects to accept and which to turn down. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

Living with a Life Coach

When Tensions Between Therapy and Coaching Hit Home

When a therapist's husband becomes a life coach, the push-pull widely felt in our field between similar professions gets personal. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

Our field's foremost brain expert connects the dots between scientific advances and our field's evolving view of mental health. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

One of the world's leading couples therapists examines a major turning point in couples therapy—and the woman who spearheaded the change. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

A therapist, author, and longtime contributor to Psychotherapy Networker reflects on our field's entrenched reluctance to name and discuss issues of race and... Read more

Article May 5, 2025

A renowned trauma expert tracks the historical contours of our culture's ambivalent relationship with trauma—and shares his hopes for the field. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

Medical Professionals Need Intensive Care

When Feelings are Seen as a Job Hazard

How can therapists help medical professionals process difficult experiences when their profession demands stoicism and invulnerability? Read more

Article May 5, 2025

One of the world's most popular Instagram influencers offers her evolving take on social media Read more

Article May 5, 2025

The developer of RLT recounts the surprising path he took to write his first bestselling book. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

Popular podcast host and author reveals the key she discovered to showing up authentically in the public sphere. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

Trauma expert and author offers some key questions she used to bring meaning into branding a practice. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

Mental health startups were supposed to democratize therapy. Instead, they've cut therapist pay and gutted clinical teams. How can we fight back? Read more

Article May 5, 2025

Why We Need a Diagnostic Revolution

Steven Hayes (ACT) on Developing a More Holistic Psychotherapy

After a moment of crisis, ACT co-founder Steven Hayes began tearing up the floorboards of our most popular diagnostic frameworks—and what he discovered was... Read more

Article May 5, 2025

The Shocking Treatment That Never Went Away

The Story of ECT—and Its Newer, Safer Alternatives

Treating depression with electricity or magnets may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but it’s currently at the center of a raging debate. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

So You Wanna Be a Life Coach?

The Legal & Ethical Risks to Your Therapy Practice

More and more therapists are using life coaching as a workaround to the challenges of cross-state practice—but doing so can have serious consequences. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

Are Supervisors Failing the Field?

Why Minoritized Supervisees Are Leaving

Too many minoritized supervisees are leaving the field. How do we hold on to them? Read more

Article May 5, 2025

The Millennial therapist who took social media by storm shares what sets her apart from other influencers. Read more

Article April 24, 2025

Autism Under Attack 

Autism Isn't Spreading, Misinformation Is

Misinformation about autism harms families, undermines progress, and diverts attention away from evidence-based practices that prevent neurodivergent burnout. Read more

Article April 8, 2025

Do I Have to Forgive to Heal?

Examining the Role of Forgiveness in Trauma Recovery

What does it mean to forgive, anyway? And do trauma survivors really need to forgive their abusers in order to heal? Read more

Article April 1, 2025

The Orgasm Gap

7 Strategies to Help Women Experience Sexual Pleasure

Many women struggle with orgasm in heterosexual relationships. Here are seven strategies therapists can use to empower female clients to experience more... Read more

Article March 17, 2025

Body Grief

How Do We Trust Our Changing Bodies?

In the wake of a chronic illness, a body image advocate challenges toxic narratives about what it means to have a healthy body. Read more

Video March 7, 2025

Psychotherapy Networker has won awards not only for its insightful articles, but for its beautiful design. Want to flip through the pages of the latest issue... Read more

Article March 7, 2025

The Wilderness Therapy Controversy

Lifelong Trauma or Lifesaving Treatment?

An unflinching look into a shadowy corner of the for-profit troubled teen industry: wilderness therapy. Read more

Article March 7, 2025

Parenting a Neurodivergent Child

Scenes from a Long, Lonely Journey

A mother’s lonely quest to help her undiagnosed Autistic child leads her on a wild goose chase for solutions. Read more

Article March 7, 2025

Unlearning Behaviorism

The Mindshift of PDA-Informed Care

Tried-and-true behavioral strategies have been failing spectacularly in households with Pathologically Demand Avoidant children. Helping PDA families feel safe... Read more