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Video August 19, 2013

Breathing To Balance The Stress Response System

Learn How To Use Breath Work To Alleviate Anxiety

Watch Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg demonstrate a therapeutic breathing exercise used to treat anxiety in session. Read more

Video August 15, 2013

Is Sexual Orientation Hardwired In Our Brain?

Louann Brizendine On How Sexual Preference Is Determined

Psychotherapy Networker Founder Rich Simon asks neurobiologist Louann Brizendine about sexual orientation and the brain Read more

Video August 9, 2013

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

Video August 8, 2013

Becoming a Part of the Child Client’s Story

Dan Hughes on the Effectiveness of Psychological Hand-Holding

Daniel Hughes has many techniques to suggest when working with troubled children who have put up a wall. Read more

Video August 6, 2013

How the Brain’s Negativity Bias Impedes Change

Rick Hanson On Understanding Why We Focus On The Negative

Psychotherapy 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

Video August 5, 2013

How Addressing Nutrition Makes Talk Therapy More Effective

Leslie Korn On Nutrition’s Leading Role In Optimal Mental Health

Since 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

Video August 1, 2013

How Attachment Issues Undermine True Intimacy

Sue Johnson On Identifying And Healing The Wounds Of Attachment

Sue Johnson shares how EFT helps couples get and stay closer. Read more

Video July 29, 2013

An Art Therapy Intervention for Depression

James Gordon shares a technique he uses with clients to help them get out of hopeless thought patterns. Read more

Video July 23, 2013

Bringing The Mental Health Benefits Of Yoga To Your Clinical Practice

Amy Weintraub Demonstrates How Easily It’s Done

Amy Weintraub shares a quick 3-minute tutorial on how to breathe to calm the stress response system. Read more

Article July 8, 2013

Will DSM Survive?

Unless DSM more firmly joins the march toward biological psychiatry, it’s going to be left behind by NIMH. Read more

Article July 8, 2013

Creating Adventure And Play In Therapy

How to Vitalize Your Therapeutic Style

The 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

Article July 8, 2013

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

Article July 8, 2013

Editor's Note: July/August 2013

The In-Session Breakthrough Fantasy

As 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

Article July 8, 2013

Yoga in the Therapy Room

Centering the Uncentered Client

Recently, therapists have begun to use simple, no-mat yoga practices to help clients whose minds are racing or fogged. Read more

Article July 8, 2013

Challenging The Narcissist

How to Find Pathways to Empathy

Given their arrogance, condescension, and lack of empathy, narcissists are notoriously difficult clients. The key to working with them is being direct and... Read more

Article July 1, 2013

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

Article July 1, 2013

Life After Betrayal

Getting Past the Victim Identity

When working with clients who’ve experienced an intimate betrayal, it’s important to empower them to move beyond a victim identity. Read more

Article July 1, 2013

Talking with God

Religion as a Therapeutic Experience

Anthropologist 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

Article July 1, 2013

Therapy Isn't Brain Science

Knowledge Doesn’t Replace Clinical Skill

Therapists 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

Article July 1, 2013

What the Cactus Knew

The Reward of Not Getting What You Want

A much-anticipated vacation demonstrates the rewards of not getting what you want. Read more

Article July 1, 2013

The Doctor Is In. . . Your Phone

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

Magazine Issue July 1, 2013

Searching for the Therapeutic "Aha"

Brain Science and Clinical Breakthroughs

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Article May 1, 2013

Desperate Love

A Father Faces an Impossible Choice

With his son’s freedom hanging in the balance, a father must decide whether to give the gift of forgiveness one more time. Read more

Article May 1, 2013

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

Article May 1, 2013

Is Technology Changing Our Minds?

What Therapists Need to Know in the Digital Age

Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Gary Small on what therapists should know about how technology is altering our brains, for both good and ill. Read more