Sex Made Simple
Sex Made Simple is a comprehensive guide to healing sexual issues and dysfunction, with dozens of strategies, techniques and methods to promote healthy... Read more
Behavior Management Skills Guide
Behavior Management Skills Guide is a unique resource that covers the process of changing behavior in children and adolescents - from start to finish. With... Read more
How Psychotherapy Helps Us Recover the Beauty in Our Lives
Questions for Helping Therapy Clients Reclaim MeaningMany walk into the therapist's consulting room exactly at the moment that they have been stripped to the core of their being. While not at the physical... Read more
Uncovering the Source of Suicidality with Brain Science
Are Serotonin Levels the Key Factor in Suicidal Depression?I'm at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in northern Manhattan. My guide, Victoria, has been studying the brains of people who committed suicide, and... Read more
Don't Go It Alone
The Power of Focusing PartnershipsIt’s not exactly a state secret: most of us become therapists because we want to help people. We want to help them feel less alone with their pain and find... Read more
Rediscovering Happiness
The Use of Positive Childhood Triggers in PsychotherapyTo create deep change, we need to help people mine the sources of intense pleasure in their lives, wherever they may find them. Read more
Is Ketamine the New Antidepressant to Rave About?
Since it was introduced as an anesthetic in the 1970s, ketamine has occupied an uncertain pharmacological status. It’s been used as both a Vietnam-era... Read more
The Whole-Brain Child Workbook
Dan and Tina talk about their workbook: A Personalized Workbook to Help You Deepen, Reflect On, and Apply Whole-Brain Principles Daniel J. Siegel and Tina... Read more
Rewriting the 'Difficult Mother' Story
A Son Embraces a New NarrativeSorting through his mother’s personal files in the wake of her dementia, a son discovers more than he expected. Read more
Brave New Couples
What Can Science Tell Us about the Changing Face of Couplehood Today?Susan Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, discusses what the science of love says about what couples can expect when they rebel too much... Read more
Editor's Note - May/June 2015
Throughout history, for most people it was just expected that work was a difficult, tedious, underpaying, and often soul-killing grind. But in today’s world... Read more
Surviving Treatment Reviews
How to Speak the Language of Insurance PlansHow to speak the language of medical necessity. Read more
Burnout Reconsidered
What Supershrinks Can Teach UsJessica, a counselor in her mid-30’s, works at a large, public mental health clinic in a major metropolitan area. Her workday begins early, the alarm... Read more
6 Micro-Practices for Self-Care
The Power of Little and OftenMany common self-care practices feel like an additional burden to those struggling with burnout. Micro self-care practices, which cost nothing and take... Read more
Getting Over Weight?
A Critic of our Cultural Obsession Goes Too FarA critic of one of our central cultural obsessions goes too far Read more
The Colors of Tomorrow
Highlights From Symposium 2015After a brutal winter that would’ve given Ernest Shackleton pause, more than 3,700 therapists welcomed the opportunity to escape cabin fever, get out of the... Read more
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
A book for clinicians and clients to use together that explains key concepts of body psychotherapy. The body’s intelligence is largely an untapped... Read more
The Therapeutic "Aha!": 10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients Unstuck
A concise guide to shaking things up in therapy. Courtney Armstrong’s The Therapeutic “Aha!” explores the thrilling and rare moment when a... Read more
Addressing Race Therapeutically in Black Relationships
Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker SymposiumToday I attended a workshop called “Working with Black Couples: Overcoming Myths and Stereotypes,” led by Dr. Christiana Awosan. Being an African American... Read more
VIDEO: Getting around Kids' Defense Systems
Using Animal FriendsIt can be hard to get around your young clients’ defense systems so that the good, therapeutic information gets through. Charlotte has a way to get around... Read more
The 10 Principles of Effective Couples Therapy
Includes Bonus Talk by Esther Perel - The New Rules of Love & Commitment John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman, world-renowned for their work on marital... Read more
Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Contemporary Guide for Practitioners
A definitive new text for understanding and applying Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Offers evidence-based yet flexible approaches to integrating DBT... Read more
Hypnotic Language in the Consulting Room
Bill O'Hanlon on the Power of Giving Permission in TherapyAs therapists, we must recognize the complexity and ambivalence at the core of human experience. People run into problems when their lives are dictated by... Read more
Defusing Male Shame
Understanding the Significance to Male ClientsShame is an emotion that isn’t healthy. Unlike guilt–which causes remorse for something you did wrong–shame can cause someone to feel as... Read more
VIDEO: Men and Intimacy
A Relational Approach to Helping Male ClientsAccording to Patrick Dougherty, the biggest problem men have in psychotherapy isn’t that intimacy and the language of emotion is such foreign territory, but... Read more
The State of Our Art
Do Our Old Ways Fit the New Times?While the number of people in psychotherapy keeps declining, surveys reveal that potential clients would still rather talk to a therapist than fill a... Read more
Seven Myths about Meditation
A One-Size Approach Doesn’t Fit AllSeven myths about meditation for clinicians to ponder. Read more
Kenneth Hardy on The Attack on Diversity
Manualized psychotherapy is squeezing out people on the margins of mainstream society. Read more


