Moving in Synchrony
The Collective Tug of FamilySometimes the road to connection involves a painful separation. Read more
Total Liberation
A Buddhist Approach to HealingWhat would therapy look like if the focus was on liberating a client from their setbacks, rather than simply diluting their symptoms? Read more
“You Have Borderline Personality Disorder”
Sharing a Difficult Diagnosis with a ClientTherapists need to consider not only what diagnosis to give, but also the pain or hardship that can result from sharing it with a client. Read more
Healing Beyond Words
How to Bring Art into TherapyIntegrating art therapy tools into your practice doesn’t have to be complicated, nor does it require artistic skill from you or your client. Read more
Rage Rooms
Stress Relief’s New Darlings?Are rage rooms a passing fad? Or a symptom of a larger issue? Read more
The Mentor Who Changed My Practice
Three clinicians share their experiences of the power of supervision. Read more
The Love Magician
A Therapist Lays Down Her WandThere’s magic in therapy—all types—the most astonishing of which only happens when you stop trying to put on a flawless show. Read more
The Therapists Who Raised Me
Tales from a Terrace Talk VeteranWhen becoming a therapist feels like part of our genetic makeup. Read more
Decolonizing Mental Health
The Healing Power of CommunityTraining must go beyond the intellectual exercise of grasping the concept of racism. The real work is getting out of our chairs and going into our communities... Read more
Beyond the Brain-Body Split
A Relational Neuroscience PerspectiveThinking about behavior only in terms of reinforcement and consequence is outdated. It’s not mind over matter. It’s both. Are new therapists getting that... Read more
The Perpetual Student
A Trauma Treatment JourneyA long-term client leads a therapist to discover that maybe the hard way is how we learn best. Read more
Embracing Our Core Competencies
How Would It Change the Practice of Therapy?Training to become technicians in particular areas isn’t what best serves our clients. Read more
Therapy, Fast and Slow
Training Clinicians to Balance Doing with BeingHow do therapists create a great training culture, one in which we become substantially better at what we do? Read more
Through the One-Way Mirror
The Education of a Family TherapistAs a family therapy trainee in the 70s, it was easy to feel like part of a larger revolution. Read more
The Four Stages of Supervision
Establishing a Lasting Relationship with Your SuperviseeTeacher? Guide? Gatekeeper? Consultant? How clarifying your role as supervisor helps. Read more
The New Supervision
Are We Meeting the Needs of Today’s Therapists?The stakes for quality supervision are high. And yet, live supervision is increasingly considered more a bonus than a staple. Read more
Editor's Note - November/December 2021
The truth is, supervision is harder to come by these days. For a number of reasons that we explore here, some trainees don’t have access to regular... Read more
Escaping the Rut of Regret
Five Creative Approaches to Letting GoA client has a lot of regret about past decisions he’s made, and although his therapist has talked with him about them at length, the client still can't seem... Read more
A Difficult Reconnection After Estrangement
Helping an Adult Child HealA client who’s been estranged from his mother for 15 years recently told his therapist he wants to reconnect with her. The therapist isn't sure how to... Read more
On Turning Pain into Power
An Interview with Dr. ShefaliThe clinician and bestselling author discusses her new book and what it means to "alchemize" pain. Read more
A Simple Practice for Finding Light in the Dark
Helping Kids Remain Calm When the World Seems ScaryGiven the wildfires, Covid variants, hurricanes, droughts, earthquakes and periods of social unrest that abound these days, the world can feel like a scary... Read more
Activism and Mental Health
A Conversation with Judge Ginger Lerner-WrenNetworker Content Editor Meaghan Winter sat down for a live conversation with Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren, pioneer of America's first mental health court and... Read more
To Take Notes or Not to Take Notes?
When a Valuable Tool Becomes a DistractionWhen a therapist begins to sense that her in-session note taking may be distracting her clients and impeding their work together, she begins to wonder whether... Read more
Should Therapists Go Back to an Office?
Deepening Our Work “Off Stage”Seeing clients through the COVID-19 crisis has shown us not only that psychotherapy can be effective outside the traditional frame—complete with an office... Read more
To Interrupt Anxiety, Try Singing
An Interview with Margaret WehrenbergOver the last year and a half, therapists have been pushed to the limit listening to clients worry, ruminate, grieve, and suffer in magnified ways. And we’ve... Read more