Popular Therapy Approaches
Whether your initial training was psychodynamic, behavioral, experiential, cognitive, or something else, staying abreast of the latest developments in clinical practice is crucial. These articles unpack today’s most popular therapy approaches.
Join us as therapy’s thought leaders offer fresh perspectives on widely used modalities like CBT and DBT. And stay current on the latest discussions around evolving modalities like hypnosis and psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Learn from Diane Fosha, Judith Beck, David Burns, Sue Johnson, John and Julie Gottman, Kate Chard, Steven Hayes, Irv Yalom, David Grand, Deb Dana, Michael Yapko, and many others.
Psychiatry Has a New Hero
Awais Aftab Envisions a Humbler Approach to Mental IllnessAcceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients stop struggling against painful thoughts and feelings and instead develop the fortitude to move toward value-based living. Learn more about the transformative power of ACT.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Despite it being one of the most researched and widely-practiced therapeutic approaches, CBT continues to be the center of debate. These articles document CBT’s applications and history, as well as frank critiques of the approach.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
By choreographing key moments where partners can reach for each other vulnerably, we can facilitate profound shifts in relationship dynamics that create lasting change. These articles from Sue Johnson, George Faller, and other experts explore EFT for couples and individuals.
Existentialism
By exploring how we create meaning, face death, and live authentically despite life’s inherent uncertainty, therapists help clients move from despair toward engaged, purposeful living. These articles offer insights and reflections on what it means to live our “best lives,” confront existential dread, and more.
Expressive Arts Therapies
These articles feature insights and reflections from therapists who have used expressive modalities to tap creative capacities that foster resilience and self-discovery. Learn more about the ways in which creative arts can deepen therapeutic work.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR offers versatile tools for addressing PTSD, childhood wounds, and traumatized relationships across diverse client populations. Discover what on-the-ground therapists have learned about how this evidence-based approach can facilitate rapid healing.
Family Therapy
By convening the family unit, we’re able to view clients within the relational systems that orginally crafted many of their patterns and identities. These articles track family therapy’s evolution through insights from Esther Perel, Salvador Minuchin, Jay Haley, and more.
Hypnosis & Energy Psychology
While sometimes controversial, practitioners of both hypnosis and energy psychology report remarkable results addressing trauma, anxiety, and entrenched patterns. Discover more about how these approaches can complement more traditional forms of therapeutic practice.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
IFS therapy can be a powerful tool for addressing everything from harsh self-criticism to anxiety to trauma responses by helping clients access self-compassion. Learn more from Richard Schwartz, Frank Anderson, and others.
Play Therapy
Through symbolic play, kids externalize conflicts, master fears, and rehearse solutions in safe, controlled environments. These articles explore play therapy fundamentals, working with anxious children, bypassing defense systems, and taking play seriously as a therapeutic modality for healing.
Polyvagal Theory
Polyvagal theory has far-reaching potential for transforming trauma treatment, relationship work, and more. Learn more from Stephen Porges, Deb Dana, and other experts about polyvagal applications in clinical work.
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
As legalization expands, it’s critical that we continue to broaden our understanding of how to best help clients integrate transformative experiences while also navigating ethical complexities around access and safety. Explore perspectives from Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk, Monnica Williams, and more.
Psychopharmacology
Medication plays an increasingly prominent role in mental health treatment. In these articles, explore medication controversies, tapering challenges, common myths around SSRIs, and more.
Walk-and-Talk & Nature Therapy
Taking therapy outdoors can turn nature into a therapeutic tool, offering metaphors, perspective, and restorative effects. Discover how to incorporate nature’s soothing presence into your practice.
Long before “self of the therapist” was a clinical concept, the father of structural family therapy was teaching it by example. Read more
Using poetry in therapy can be a powerful way to connect with clients, and help them communicate inner turmoil in ways conversation cannot. Read more
Energy psychology—especially Emotional Freedom Techniques, or tapping—is gaining traction as a fast-acting, evidence-backed, somatic therapy that reduces... Read more
Of all the David-and-Goliath matchups in psychotherapy, few have had as many twists and turns as the one unfolding between energy psychology and the APA’s... Read more
IFS becomes more accessible when we translate psychological jargon into universal experiences of need and care. Read more
As our field shifts away from depth psychotherapy to imparting knowledge, what are we losing in the process? Read more
IFS offers a novel way of working with addiction, one that links the inner focus of trauma treatment with the behavioral focus of addiction treatment. Read more
Steven Hayes, the cofounder of ACT, and Steve Shapiro, a senior ISTDP trainer, explore how they'd work with a client who's tried everything. Read more
Talk therapy can help couples understand their negative patterns cognitively. Adding psychedelics to the work can help them feel it. Read more
What if you and your clients could play back their everyday interactions outside of therapy, moment by moment, to uncover blind spots and reimagine family... Read more
A millennial therapist believes that for clients to find true freedom and meaning in the midst of crisis, we need to help them face inescapable questions about... Read more
The mindful practice of birding can help us find balance in challenging times. Read more
Are your perceptions of the risks and rewards of walk and talk therapy accurate? Read more
Watch our interview with relationship expert Tammy Nelson on how ketamine is supercharging couples work. Read more
Alicia Muñoz and Carmen Jimenez-Pride, LCSW, explore what it means to develop a healthier, friendlier relationship with our parts. Read more
Psychedelics can show clients an alternative to their suffering—but so can many softer, gentler, more gradual approaches clinicians have been perfecting... Read more
More and more people are ingesting small amounts of psilocybin on a daily basis in the hope of curing everything from mild irritability to major depression... Read more
Bessel van der Kolk and Monnica Williams, two prominent trauma researchers, weigh in on what the field should be talking about now that psychedelic-assisted... Read more
Trying on different personas can help clients step outside of their comfort zones and challenge their assumptions about themselves, others, and the world. Read more
Sara Kuburic, the Millennial Therapist, invites new clients to take a deep look at age-old existential concerns. Read more
Sara Kuburic, the Millennial Therapist, explains the effects of self-loss and why it's important to find yourself again. Read more
Sue Johnson, developer of EFT, argues that because we’re socially bonded beings, trauma is always about relationships—and relationships are key to healing... Read more
Clinical hypnosis has a rich history, broad applications, and sound research behind it—so why aren’t more therapists using it? Read more
Dr. Mithoefer chats about MDMA and psychedelic therapy, their accessibility challenges, as well as what you can expect from his new online course with... Read more
For people who want to taper off psychotropic drugs, nutritional therapies and integrative methods may provide a promising alternative. Read more
Join Christine Mark-Griffin, EMDRIA-certified therapist, and author of EMDR Workbook for Kids, along with Networker’s Clinical Director, Anna Lock, as they... Read more
After this experience, I knew I needed to share what I’d learned with my clients, and soon afterward decided to get training to become a ketamine-assisted... Read more
Networker sits down with Sue Johnson to discuss her shift from couples to Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy. Read more
With roots in the EMDR protocol, the Flash Technique claims to offer a pleasurable path to processing trauma. Read more
Join Dr. Sue Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused-Individual Therapy (EFIT), along with Networker’s Anna Lock as they discuss everything EFIT. Read more
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