In 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

A fantastical journey leads an overwhelmed clinician to unexpected interactions with some of our field's leading luminaries, including Ramani Durvasula, Terry... Read more

Check out the November/December issue of the digital magazine on the browser of your favorite device—and dive in from cover to cover! Read more

This year has felt different. There's been a lot of dysregulation in the air, and therapists are feeling it alongside their clients. Why are we feeling so... Read more

Have you had a client who could out-think their trauma? Likely you haven’t … because trauma isn’t healed through thought. Clients come to... Read more

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Stillness is an essential element of well-being, yet many clients live in a state of high alert and a move toward calm sends signals of danger. Understanding... Read more

A growing number of clients are coming to therapy feeling isolated, lonely, and disconnected.  But the key to helping lies far beyond encouraging people... Read more

At the heart of our client’s symptoms – from anxiety and depression to traumatic stress and more – is a dysregulated nervous... Read more

Trauma clients are often stuck in a dysregulated state—and in the words of author and international trainer Deb Dana, LCSW—they “long to come... Read more

Trauma clients are often stuck in a dysregulated state—and in the words of author and international trainer Deb Dana, LCSW—they “long to come... Read more

In this deeply polarized and uncertain world, we’re bombarded with cues of danger that cause us either to react in anger and fear or to retreat in... Read more

Practice Tools for the January/February 2023 issue are courtesy of Deb Dana's new book, "Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety." Read more

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Have you had a client who could out-think their trauma? Likely you haven’t...because trauma isn’t healed through thought. Clients come to us... Read more

Have you had a client who could out-think their trauma? Likely you haven’t...because trauma isn’t healed through thought. Clients come to us... Read more

At the heart of our client’s symptoms – from anxiety and depression to traumatic stress and more – is a dysregulated nervous... Read more

At the heart of our client’s symptoms – from anxiety and depression to traumatic stress and more – is a dysregulated nervous... Read more

Networker sits down with Deb Dana to discuss polyvagal theory during a live Ask Me Anything event. Read more

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Guided by Polyvagal Theory we have a roadmap to find our way to regulation and engage the power of the nervous system to hold ourselves and others in care and... Read more

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At its most basic level, human communication is one nervous system responding to another, searching for signals that it’s safe to connect and flooding us... Read more

Connecting with clients on a nervous-system level is especially important to therapists working from a polyvagal framework. But is it possible to offer... Read more

Watch researcher Stephen Porges and expert clinician Deb Dana in this rare virtual training to fully learn the theory and the practice of integrating... Read more

Watch researcher Stephen Porges and expert clinician Deb Dana in this rare virtual training to fully learn the theory and the practice of integrating... Read more

At the moment, I’m happy to be in my own home, self-quarantining, because I’ve recently been around the world on a training tour. I was in Rome twice... Read more

The coronavirus pandemic is testing us all. But what do we do when our anxiety, loneliness, or grief gets overwhelming? Therapist and author Deb Dana shares... Read more

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