The Best and Beloved Stories from 2022
Our Staff Picks from a Year of Psychotherapy NetworkerIn this year-end review, the staff of Psychotherapy Networker shares the articles and interviews that most resonated with readers and authors in 2022. Read more
What Stepmothers Are Stepping Into
How remarried families can reexamine their roles. Read more
Nutrition and Trauma, Part 1: Using Food to Accelerate Recovery for PTSD, Complex Trauma, and TBI
Psychologically and physically traumatized individuals benefit from nutritional support to counteract the effects on the body of extreme stress, yet food is... Read more
Nutrition and Trauma, Part 2: Protocols and Practices for PTSD, Complex Trauma, and TBI
Food, dietary supplements, herbs, and spices can play an important role in healing for traumatized clients but are often left out of treatment strategies. In... Read more
Therapists in the Kitchen: Integrating Nutrition into Your Mental Health Practice
Your client’s dietary habits are relevant to your clinical work with them, but where do you begin? In this recorded session, you’ll get a template... Read more
Food and Mood: Nutrition Tips for Better Emotional and Mental Health
Nutrition is a valuable yet often missing piece of improving emotional and mental health. The average person dealing with low mood or anxiety isn’t aware... Read more
Ditching Diets: How to Work with Clients using Intuitive Nutrition and Functional Foods
Many clients find diets to be restrictive, difficult to follow or require sensitivity due to previous eating disorders or obsessions. How can you help these... Read more
High Risk Clients: Effective Clinical Interventions for Client Emergencies Related to Suicide, Substance Abuse Disorder, Violence & More
Crises are never scheduled, convenient or easy. But they do happen and you will face them. Clients at risk for crisis often present with so many symptoms and... Read more
High Risk Clients: Effective Clinical Interventions for Client Emergencies Related to Suicide, Substance Abuse Disorder, Violence & More
Crises are never scheduled, convenient or easy. But they do happen and you will face them. Clients at risk for crisis often present with so many symptoms and... Read more
Racial and Generational Trauma: Evidence-based Somatic Interventions for BIPOC Clients
Increased hate crimes. Fear and discrimination. Police brutality and traumatic media coverage. Higher rates of mental and physical health disorders. Just... Read more
ACEs and Trauma in Students: Identification and Reponses
Students who have experienced trauma often present as difficult to engage and display problematic behavior such as a low frustration tolerance, angry... Read more
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for PTSD: Skills to Ground Clients, Decrease Triggers and Improve Emotion Regulation
DBT transforms the way you do therapy – moving you from a change-based model to one of skill-based learning. And applying a DBT approach to trauma... Read more
Racial and Generational Trauma: Evidence-based Somatic Interventions for BIPOC Clients
Increased hate crimes. Fear and discrimination. Police brutality and traumatic media coverage. Higher rates of mental and physical health disorders. Just... Read more
Racial Trauma: Effective Interventions and Options for Treatment
Race-based stressors can leave BIPOC clients overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, hopelessness, and emotional exhaustion. The raw pain and trauma of each experience... Read more
Family Trauma Treatment: Teach Caregivers to Respond to Trauma Driven Behaviors
In the community health setting you frequently work with parents who aren’t prepared to deal with the trauma responses of children and adolescents. And... Read more
The Unified Protocol: Transdiagnostic CBT Treatment of Co-occurring Anxiety, Depressive, and Related Disorders
When you work in community mental health your caseloads are diverse. Clients have any number of conditions, and more often than not, more than one at the same... Read more
Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence: Screening, Assessments and Safety Planning
All clinicians are likely to encounter domestic and intimate partner violence at some point in their practice. And if you fail to recognize the abuse and... Read more
Culturally Affirming Practices for Whole Person Treatment
Effective treatment focuses on the whole person. The thoughts, behaviors and sufferings of your clients are intimately connected to the social and cultural... Read more
De-escalation Techniques: Protecting Yourself and Others
When you work in any mental health setting, you know you are going to be working with people in some very difficult circumstances. Sometimes that means working... Read more
Motivational Interviewing: End the Tug of War and Create Lasting Change from Within
Too often sessions seem like tug of war. Back and forth between the reasons to change…and the reasons not to. It’s easy to start feeling stuck or... Read more
Finding Hope: Working with Immigrant and Vulnerable Populations
When immigrants arrive in the U.S. the journey is often not a happy one. Many have experienced war, rape, and violence. And upon arrival many face deportation... Read more
Supporting Clients in Poverty: Strengths-Based Approaches to Build Resilience and Upstream Change
With middle-class backgrounds, many of us never considered that clients would have empty stomachs, no transportation, and lack so many of the resources we take... Read more
LGBTQ Youth: Clinical Strategies to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
A 9-year-old boy took his own life, just days after coming out to his peers as gay, due to the severe bullying he received. Sadly, he is not alone, suicide... Read more
LGBTQ Youth: Clinical Strategies to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
A 9-year-old boy took his own life, just days after coming out to his peers as gay, due to the severe bullying he received. Sadly, he is not alone, suicide... Read more
'Being a Taxi Driver Taught Me Everything About Connection'
An Interview with Terry RealAs part of his Secrets of the Masters interview series, Rick Miller talks with Terry Real about his lengthy career in the mental health field and how it all... Read more
Six Ways to Address Impending Premature Endings
What Happens When Clients Have One Foot Out the DoorEnding therapy is tough. But a client leaning out of therapy midway through treatment? That’s a whole other pill to swallow. Here, six therapists share how... Read more
From EFT to EFIT: The Next Generation of Emotionally-Focused Therapy
A Conversation with Dr. Sue JohnsonJoin Dr. Sue Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused-Individual Therapy (EFIT), along with Networker’s Anna Lock as they discuss everything EFIT. Read more
