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Is Sexual Orientation Hardwired In Our Brain?
Louann Brizendine On How Sexual Preference Is DeterminedPsychotherapy Networker Founder Rich Simon asks neurobiologist Louann Brizendine about sexual orientation and the brain Read more
Bringing Stressed Clients Into The Present Moment
Elisha Goldstein On The “Mindful Check-In”Psychotherapy Networker Founder Rich Simon talks with Elisha Goldstein on the meditative technique he calls a "mindful check-in." Read more
Becoming a Part of the Child Client’s Story
Dan Hughes on the Effectiveness of Psychological Hand-HoldingDaniel Hughes has many techniques to suggest when working with troubled children who have put up a wall. Read more
How the Brain’s Negativity Bias Impedes Change
Rick Hanson On Understanding Why We Focus On The NegativePsychotherapy Networker Founder Rich Simon talks to Rick Hanson about negativity bias and how it can be one of the biggest challenges to helping clients... Read more
How Addressing Nutrition Makes Talk Therapy More Effective
Leslie Korn On Nutrition’s Leading Role In Optimal Mental HealthSince psychotherapists are not routinely trained to factor in the role of nutrition, Leslie Korn’s focus on why and how to incorporate nutritional... Read more
How Attachment Issues Undermine True Intimacy
Sue Johnson On Identifying And Healing The Wounds Of AttachmentSue Johnson shares how EFT helps couples get and stay closer. Read more
James Gordon shares a technique he uses with clients to help them get out of hopeless thought patterns. Read more
Bringing The Mental Health Benefits Of Yoga To Your Clinical Practice
Amy Weintraub Demonstrates How Easily It’s DoneAmy Weintraub shares a quick 3-minute tutorial on how to breathe to calm the stress response system. Read more
Editor's Note: July/August 2013
The In-Session Breakthrough FantasyAs a growing body of research shows, deep change doesn’t come when clients just talk about their problems: it results from the impact of an emotionally... Read more
Creating Adventure And Play In Therapy
How to Vitalize Your Therapeutic StyleThe more we learn about the emotional brain, the clearer it becomes: to have real therapeutic impact, we need to create experiences that help clients learn to... Read more
Challenging The Narcissist
How to Find Pathways to EmpathyGiven their arrogance, condescension, and lack of empathy, narcissists are notoriously difficult clients. The key to working with them is being direct and... Read more
Yoga in the Therapy Room
Centering the Uncentered ClientRecently, therapists have begun to use simple, no-mat yoga practices to help clients whose minds are racing or fogged. Read more
The Taste Bud Conspiracy
Are we the victims of the food industry?A new book exposes the story of the corporate competition for our taste buds and ever-expanding tummies. Read more
Unless DSM more firmly joins the march toward biological psychiatry, it’s going to be left behind by NIMH. Read more
Unlocking The Emotional Brain
Is Memory Reconsolidation the Key to Transformation?New research into the complexities of memory reconsolidation offers important clues about how we can make the most elusive of consulting room events—the... Read more
Therapy Isn't Brain Science
Knowledge Doesn’t Replace Clinical SkillTherapists were doing helpful work long before neuroscience made its official debut and the field developed a collective case of “brain fever.” In fact, at... Read more
Currently, there are between 100 and 150 smartphone apps designed to supplement—and occasionally even replace—face-to-face psychotherapy. In fact, the... Read more
Life After Betrayal
Getting Past the Victim IdentityWhen working with clients who’ve experienced an intimate betrayal, it’s important to empower them to move beyond a victim identity. Read more
Talking with God
Religion as a Therapeutic ExperienceAnthropologist and author Tanya Luhrmann explains how many evangelicals experience the kind of support in their connection with God that others find in their... Read more
What the Cactus Knew
The Reward of Not Getting What You WantA much-anticipated vacation demonstrates the rewards of not getting what you want. Read more
From the Editor: May/June 2013
When the Tough Get TherapyThere are some clients who yell at us, manipulate us, go broodingly silent on us, have uncontrollable emotional breakdowns in session, disappear for weeks at a... Read more
Is Resistance Dead?
Or Have the Rumors Been Exaggerated?With all the recent developments in research, theory, and practice, we have more treatment options to choose from than ever before. Why then do so many... Read more
When Therapy Is Going Nowhere
Escaping the “Groundhog Day” CycleWhen we’re spinning our wheels from one session to the next, the key to progress often lies in shifting the therapist-client relationship. Read more
Depathologizing the Borderline Client
Learning to Manage Our FearsInevitably, given their history of trauma, many borderline clients will trigger their therapists from time to time. But forgoing the urge to blame these... Read more
Breaking The Spell
7 Questions to Ask When Therapy is StuckWhen therapy goes wrong, it’s typically because we’ve entered our clients’ trance, joining them in their myopic misery. Once there, our job is to break... Read more
On With The Show
Celebrating the Craft at SymposiumThis year, 3,000 practitioners came to our annual Symposium to explore the fundamental question: are we any closer to unraveling the mysteries of psychotherapy... Read more
Peer Supervision Groups that Work
Three Steps That Make a DifferencePeer consultation groups offer all kinds of rich possibilities for learning and collegial support---as long as you set them up properly. Read more
Women Who Cheat
Understanding the Message of the AffairFar from being evidence of marital bankruptcy, a woman’s affair can be a way of expressing a desire for a different self and an opportunity to breathe life... Read more
Is Now Really Better?
Lessons from Traditional SocietiesJared Diamond’s new book explores the many lessons modern cultures can draw from the wisdom of small-scale, preindustrial societies. Read more
Desperate Love
A Father Faces an Impossible ChoiceWith his son’s freedom hanging in the balance, a father must decide whether to give the gift of forgiveness one more time. Read more