VIDEO: Building Inner Strength with Brain Science
Cultivating Positivity and Virtue in Yourself and Your ClientsAs a practicing therapist today, it’s easy to succumb to the allure of brain science, says neuropsychologist and author Rick Hanson. Mirror... Read more
VIDEO: What Therapy and Surgery Have in Common
Crafting the Right Language for the Right OutcomeWhat’s the best way to open and close therapy? It’s a question with many answers, but depending on your client, a particular... Read more
VIDEO: Helping Clients Envision Personal Transformation
...While Still Validating Their PainHow do you help clients access resourceful states when they’re feeling hopeless and helpless? In this short video, trauma specialist Courtney Armstrong... Read more
My Teenage Client’s Parents Say He’s Depressed, But He Disagrees
Five Clinicians Give Their TakeFourteen-year-old client Tyler’s parents brought him to therapy because they say he rarely engages with classmates or teachers, isn’t interested in... Read more
VIDEO: What Therapists Need to Know About Working with LGBTQ+ Clients
How We Think About Gender and Sexuality is Changing at "Warp Speed"Today’s LGBTQ+ community has exploded in size, and therapists working in progressive, urban communities will likely see clients whose approach to sex... Read more
Ketamine: The Latest Wonder Drug?
Even as ketamine’s popularity continues to rise for depression treatment, it’s still fighting an uphill battle for clinical acceptance. Read more
Suicide and the Golden Gate Bridge
BONUS Video: Watch Malcolm's full keynote from Symposium 2019In his many bestselling books, author Malcolm Gladwell has achieved renown for upending conventional thinking about the forces that shape people’s lives. His... Read more
What Greg Taught Me
From Symposium Storytelling Evening 2019"Even though I’d been out as a gay man for decades, I still felt disgust at my erotic interests. Although several therapists over the years had told me I... Read more
Therapy in a Challenging World
Highlights from Symposium 2019Rich Simon, Networker editor, tried to highlight the role therapists can play in a world so turned upside down that "crazy has become the new normal." Read more
Healing as a Subversive Act
Interconnections vs. IndividualsIn his opening keynote, Canadian physician Gabor Maté called on therapists to expand their frame of reference and recognize how their job is too often a kind... Read more
Embracing the Other
From Symposium Storytelling Evening 2019“Jeremy, we’ve never talked about it, but I cover my head for many reasons,” I told him. “One of them is to keep the energy contained—the heat... Read more
Learning to Draw the Line
From Symposium Storytelling Evening 2019"In one session, she said that her life outside of therapy was going great, and seeing me was her main problem." Read more
Piercing the Illusion of Intimacy
From Symposium Storytelling Evening 2019“Whoops,” I said, thinking this was a lighthearted moment. “Looks like you should’ve gone with that other psychologist.” But Ted didn’t joke back. Read more
Editor's Note - May/June 2019
In the true tales published in this issue, the storytellers made a leap of faith, dropping all pretense of professional omniscience and trusting their... Read more
The Best Love Story Ever
Changing the Way We See ConnectionSue Johnson makes an impassioned case for the deeply healing power of intimate connection. Read more
Flourishing as We Age
Highlights from Symposium 2019Mary Pipher, author of the classic Reviving Ophelia and nine subsequent books, was this year’s recipient of the Networker’s Lifetime Achievement Award for... Read more