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Grief in Affair Recovery
Understanding Loss Through a Systems LensInfidelity doesn’t just wound the betrayed partner—grief ripples through the entire relational system. Sometimes, holding it in unconventional ways... Read more
The Future of Affairs
Thirds, Therapists, and AI InfidelityThe landscape of infidelity has shifted dramatically—what will it take for our clinical thinking to catch up? Read more
5 Behaviors that Rebuild Trust After Infidelity
Because Proof You've Changed Can't Regulate a Nervous SystemBetrayed partners don’t need perfect apologies. Their nervous systems need a pattern. Read more
Treating the Affair Partner
How to Help the Overlooked Third in the Infidelity TriangleIt’s easy to dismiss or villainize the affair partner. But when they bring their unique experience into the room, do you know what to do? Read more
The Surprising Truth about Betrayal-Informed Therapy
Confronting the Misapplication of Therapeutic SymmetryRushing to repair after betrayal isn’t just premature—it can deepen your clients’ pain. Read more
When Affairs Spark Transformation
Exploring Possibility After the Crisis of InfidelityEsther Perel revisits former clients to discover what separates the couples who ended up thriving after an affair from those still living in the wreckage of... Read more
Facing Our Field's History of Infidelity Treatment
What's Cringey? What's Compelling?Four decades of nuggets from our archives trace how our field’s thinking about affairs has evolved—and remind us to hold today’s certainties a little... Read more
Is Moral Injury the Defining Problem of Our Time?
Naming and Treating Trauma’s Most Elusive DimensionMoral injury is finally gaining recognition—in grad schools, social media, and even our diagnostic bibles. But how do you treat a wound of the soul? Read more
Treating Clients Who Share Your Own Diagnosis
How to Navigate Empathy and Ethical PitfallsThe same diagnosis that makes you uniquely attuned to a client may also make you vulnerable to crossing ethical boundaries. Read more
Childhood Emotional Neglect
Treating the Wound That Leaves no ScarPsychologist Jonice Webb—who named childhood emotional neglect—shares how to spot it, treat it, and help clients transform it. Read more
Scott Galloway's Message for Men—Through a Therapist's Lens
What "Notes on Being a Man" Can Offer Your ClientsA marketing professor’s bestselling book has a valuable message for struggling young men—and their therapists. Read more
Passive Suicidality & the Jovial Client
Two Clinicians Respond to Subtle Suicidal Ideation in a First SessionTwo takes on handling suicidality skillfully from the first intervention. Read more
What is Relational Restlessness?
The Hidden Force Behind Couples' DisconnectionYour couples may not be falling out of love—they may be falling out of alignment. Read more
Tapping into Trauma
Energy Psychology Goes MainstreamEnergy psychology—especially Emotional Freedom Techniques, or tapping—is gaining traction as a fast-acting, evidence-backed, somatic therapy that reduces... Read more
Why You Owed on Your Taxes This Year
...And How to Avoid This Next YearIf you're a therapist who works in private practice and you were surprised to owe taxes this year, you're not alone! Here's what happened—and how to avoid... Read more
The Self-Doubt Habit in Parenting
How Childhood Shapes the Way We Trust OurselvesWhy do so many parents struggle with trusting themselves, and how can we help them conquer self-doubt? Read more
When the Room Becomes Your Co-therapist
Adventures in Synchronicity, Enactment, and Reparative ImaginationWhen therapists stay open to synchronicities, the world becomes an unlikely collaborator in healing. Read more
The Limits of Trauma Work
Love Is Not EnoughAs a field, we're adept at healing injuries. But what are we doing to prevent injuries from occurring in the first place? Read more
The Couples' Work We Weren't Trained For
Grief, Resilience, and Intimacy in Long-Term LoveA seasoned couples therapist discovers an overlooked stage of love our field may have missed. Read more
Rethinking Autistic Connection
Double Empathy and 5 Autistic Love LanguagesA critical skill that therapists are just learning involves understanding the unique ways many Autistic clients show love—from info- dumping to support... Read more
When Your Client's Problem Mirrors Your Own
Navigating Countertransference and the Trap of AdviceWhen our clients' stories trigger our own painful memories, we can use this to our advantage, rather than let our emotions impact treatment. Read more
Becoming a Confident Therapist
What Two Seasoned Experts Taught Me About Finding My Clinical SelfWhat does it take to be a confident therapist? To find out, a struggling therapist connects with experts Bill Doherty and Sabrina N'Diaye. Read more
Can Being a Therapist Wear You Down?
The Occupational Injury No One Talks AboutIt's easy to interpret therapists over responsiveness as a personal flaw, but it's actually an occupational hazard. Read more
Listen to the March/April 2026 Magazine Issue!
Demystifying DissociationListen to the audio version of the March/April 2026 issue of Psychotherapy Networker magazine. Read more
Flip Through the Magazine
Demystifying DissociationCheck out the March/April issue of the digital magazine on the browser of your favorite device—and dive in from cover to cover. Read more
Things I Was Taught Not to Do in Therapy – That I Do!
5 Therapists' Stories About Going Against the GrainFive seasoned therapists share the graduate school rules they’ve broken—and why their clients are better for it. Read more
5 Popular Therapist Memes II
Humor and Insights Your Colleagues are SharingIn our quest for healing and connection in a chaotic world, a wacky meme can be a powerful tool. Five therapists share their favorites. Read more
The Clinician Game Master
How Dungeons & Dragons Can Help Clients Explore New SkillsCan a fantasy tabletop game from the 1970s be a useful clinical tool? Megan Connell, a psychologist, author, and cofounder of Geeks Like Us, explores. Read more
The Case of the Angry Couple
Two Therapists, Two Different Approaches to ReconnectionCouples therapy pioneer Ellyn Bader and relationship expert Alexandra Solomon reveal how they’d work with a couple derailed by conflicts and chronic pain. Read more
How the False Memory Debate Rewrote the Rules of Practice
Facing a Dark Chapter in Psychotherapy's HistoryThe false memory debate, a turning point that shaped psychotherapy forever, has been largely forgotten. But its legacy continues. Read more