Couples Techniques for Digital Infidelity: Tools for Handling Disconnection, Jealousy, Pornography and More
You notice it immediately – the scornful looks, the detached attitude, you can even feel the resentment radiating from across the... Read more
Shamelessly Imperfect: A Guide to Help Your Clients Break Free from Perfectionism Using ACT, MCT and IFS-Informed Interventions
In a society that glorifies perfectionism and overachieving, it can be challenging to help clients with clinical perfectionism desist from the diffusional... Read more
Tics and Tourette's Syndrome Treatment: Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) in Youth and Adults
Surges in tic-like behaviors are leaving record numbers of clients underserved. And if you work with clients with ADHD, anxiety, or OCD without specific... Read more
Abandonment Trauma: Treatment Strategies to Heal Inner Child Wounds and Restore Healthy Attachment
Stuck in self-fulfilling cycles of mistrust, many clients expect abandonment and inadvertently create situations that reinforce those expectations. As... Read more
The Wounded Healer Workshop: Treatment & Recovery from Vicarious Trauma, Moral Injury, and Burnout for Professionals
As healing professionals, we spend so much time putting others first, we put ourselves last. Stressed and burned out, we brush off our own trauma, ignore our... Read more
Treating Trauma with the Integrative Relationship Therapy Approach
Trauma can have a catastrophic impact on intimate relationships, damaging the crucial experiences of connection, closeness and pleasure that all healthy... Read more
Complex Trauma Treatment Fundamentals
When you treat clients with complex trauma there are so many intricacies. From diverse histories and ranges of responses to attachment issues, co-occurring... Read more
Sibling Grief: Specialized Interventions and Support Skills for Clients Across the Lifespan
Lifetime friends, role models and confidants. The bond between siblings is one of the most important we’ll ever experience. But sibling loss is one of... Read more
Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy: Principles and Strategies
In this session, neurodivergent therapist, psychologist, and trainer, Dr. Tasha Oswald will teach you crucial insight that care providers need to know to help... Read more
Emotional and Disordered Eating: Trauma-Informed Clinical Tools to Heal Your Clients' Relationship with Food and Body
When your clients struggle with eating, your first move as a therapist may be to develop plans for specific behavioral changes - a list of things clients can... Read more
July/August 2024: The New “Good Enough” Parent: How Much of Us Do Our Kids Really Need?
This issue looks at the theme of parenting, including how therapists can offer clarity and guidance to struggling parents, how they can help parents... Read more
The New "Good Enough" Parent
How Much of Us Do Our Kids Really Need?Explore the complexities of modern parenting and relationships in latest magazine issue of Psychotherapy Networker. Read more
Facing the Past as a Parent
How Our Worst Moments Can Stop Intergenerational TraumaFor one trauma therapist, parenting turned out to be the ultimate trial by fire—and a path to healing and wholeness. Read more
Boys Holding Hands
How Are We Policing the Beauty of Male Intimacy?In "Close," director Lukas Dhont illustrates what can happen when society squashes the beautiful, empathic relationships that come naturally to boys. Read more
“Gentle Parenting” a Fierce & Feisty Kid
When One-Size-Fits-All Scripts Don’t WorkThe prescriptive, one-size-fits-all version of “gentle parenting” promoted on social media may work with many kids, but for parents of “big reactors,”... Read more
Sexual Fantasies in Couples Therapy
The Art of Encouraging Erotic ImaginationIt takes practice and courage to attune to a couple’s sensitivities and insecurities regarding sexual fantasies, but the payoff can be worth the clinical... Read more
An Autobiography of Trauma
The Developer of Somatic Experiencing Releases His Own “Body Memory”When the world-renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing begins feeling persistent disturbing sensations come up from childhood, he realizes it’s time to... Read more
The Dangers of a Phone-Based Childhood
Are We Protecting Kids in the Wrong Way?What happens when a whole generation of children are overprotected on the playground and underprotected online? Read more
Countering the Mommy Brain Stigma
The Benefits of Maternal Neuroplasticity at WorkRather than a deficiency, “mommy brain” is an asset—and therapists can help their clients embrace it in the workplace. Read more
The Cultural Competence Dilemma
How Much Can We Rely On a Shared Identity with Clients?Black Men Heal’s therapy outcomes are defying the odds—and raising questions about what it means to be truly culturally competent. Read more
Demystifying Walk and Talk Therapy
How to Get Outside With ClientsAre your perceptions of the risks and rewards of walk and talk therapy accurate? Read more
Remembering Sue Johnson
Sue Johnson changed the field, creating a ripple effect of healing that continues to transform countless relationships. In a mosaic of anecdotes drawn from the... Read more
The Parentification Trap
Growing Up Too Fast as a Child of ImmigrantsHow does it impact the development of second-generation kids when their sense of self is inextricably tied to meeting the needs of parents and elders? Read more
The Surrogacy Partnership
Navigating a Complicated, Intimate ArrangementBuilding a trusting relationship with a surrogate requires a wide array of interpersonal and self-regulation skills— and can be the ultimate exercise in... Read more
Vienna Pharaon on Family-of-Origin Work
The Importance of Looking back to Move ForwardWith so many newer approaches focusing on here-and-now experiences, are we forgetting about psychotherapy’s foundation of exploring childhood wounds? Read more