3-Day: Nutrition for Mental Health Comprehensive Course
Here’s what you’ll learn in this comprehensive training … Improve mood and behavior in clients using micro- and... Read more
Melt Anxiety and Relax Card Deck for Kids
The Melt Anxiety & Relax Card Deck for Kids provides 44 fun, easy, and effective practices to help anxious and worried young minds. Using the best... Read more
Acceptance and Mindfulness Toolbox for Children and Adolescents
The Acceptance and Mindfulness Toolbox for Children & Adolescents gives you the resources to help the children and adolescents better manage their... Read more
2-Day Course: ADHD in Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Behavior, Build Self-Esteem and Foster Academic & Social Success
Behavior charts, social skills training, positive reinforcement, behavior contracts, rewards and consequences … you’ve tried everything to make... Read more
The CBT Deck for Clients and Therapists
Reduce stress in your life with practical, action-orientated, and mindfulness tools to quickly build positive emotions in your life. The 101 practices inside... Read more
VIDEO: Helping Kids Find the Answers Inside
Here's a Fun Exercise That Gets Your Young Clients InvolvedWouldn’t it be great if we had a magic therapy wand to wave in front of our young clients and give them all the answers they need? What if this magic wand... Read more
The Come as You Are Workbook
A new, practical workbook from the New York Times bestselling author of Come As You Are that allows you to apply the book’s groundbreaking research and... Read more
Is It Ever Okay to Break Confidentiality If I Know My Client Is Dating an Abuser?
Five Clinicians Give Their TakeDiedre was widowed about three years ago, but was excited to tell her therapist about a man she's started dating. She's very happy. As her therapist heard... Read more
Telehealth for Rehab: Improve Access & Quality of Care Wherever You Are
Telehealth for rehabilitation is the way therapy is moving, especially for patients who are in rural settings and out of coverage for home health agencies. But... Read more
When Straight Men Have Sex with Men
Understanding the Difference Between Sexual Identity, Preference, and FantasyWhen a male client in a heterosexual relationship confesses that he has sex with men, the therapist must understand he's not necessarily closeted. Read more
Certified Anger Management Treatment Professional: 2-Day Certification Course
Working with angry clients can make sessions uncomfortable, stressful and anxiety inducing. But all clinicians will encounter anger, whether it’s the... Read more
Cognitive & Memory Decline Assessment & Intervention: Effective Techniques for Alzheimer’s, TBI, Concussion and Stroke
Often overlooked, many co-morbidities and reversible factors can complicate accurate identification of the root cause of your client’s cognitive/memory... Read more
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for PTSD
This pragmatic workbook offers evidence-based skills grounded in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you find lasting relief from trauma and... Read more
A Comprehensive Approach to Neurofeedback for Trauma Related Dysregulation: Integration with Therapeutic Attunement, Biofeedback & Other Body/Mind Approaches
Understanding that trauma alters and dysregulates brain activity opens new state of the art methods of treatment which directly target disturbed neuronal... Read more
VIDEO: Building Inner Strength with Brain Science
Cultivating Positivity and Virtue in Yourself and Your ClientsAs a practicing therapist today, it’s easy to succumb to the allure of brain science, says neuropsychologist and author Rick Hanson. Mirror... Read more
VIDEO: What Therapy and Surgery Have in Common
Crafting the Right Language for the Right OutcomeWhat’s the best way to open and close therapy? It’s a question with many answers, but depending on your client, a particular... Read more
VIDEO: Helping Clients Envision Personal Transformation
...While Still Validating Their PainHow do you help clients access resourceful states when they’re feeling hopeless and helpless? In this short video, trauma specialist Courtney Armstrong... Read more
My Teenage Client’s Parents Say He’s Depressed, But He Disagrees
Five Clinicians Give Their TakeFourteen-year-old client Tyler’s parents brought him to therapy because they say he rarely engages with classmates or teachers, isn’t interested in... Read more
VIDEO: What Therapists Need to Know About Working with LGBTQ+ Clients
How We Think About Gender and Sexuality is Changing at "Warp Speed"Today’s LGBTQ+ community has exploded in size, and therapists working in progressive, urban communities will likely see clients whose approach to sex... Read more
Ketamine: The Latest Wonder Drug?
Even as ketamine’s popularity continues to rise for depression treatment, it’s still fighting an uphill battle for clinical acceptance. Read more
Suicide and the Golden Gate Bridge
BONUS Video: Watch Malcolm's full keynote from Symposium 2019In his many bestselling books, author Malcolm Gladwell has achieved renown for upending conventional thinking about the forces that shape people’s lives. His... Read more
What Greg Taught Me
From Symposium Storytelling Evening 2019"Even though I’d been out as a gay man for decades, I still felt disgust at my erotic interests. Although several therapists over the years had told me I... Read more
Therapy in a Challenging World
Highlights from Symposium 2019Rich Simon, Networker editor, tried to highlight the role therapists can play in a world so turned upside down that "crazy has become the new normal." Read more
Healing as a Subversive Act
Interconnections vs. IndividualsIn his opening keynote, Canadian physician Gabor Maté called on therapists to expand their frame of reference and recognize how their job is too often a kind... Read more
Embracing the Other
From Symposium Storytelling Evening 2019“Jeremy, we’ve never talked about it, but I cover my head for many reasons,” I told him. “One of them is to keep the energy contained—the heat... Read more
Learning to Draw the Line
From Symposium Storytelling Evening 2019"In one session, she said that her life outside of therapy was going great, and seeing me was her main problem." Read more
Piercing the Illusion of Intimacy
From Symposium Storytelling Evening 2019“Whoops,” I said, thinking this was a lighthearted moment. “Looks like you should’ve gone with that other psychologist.” But Ted didn’t joke back. Read more
Editor's Note - May/June 2019
In the true tales published in this issue, the storytellers made a leap of faith, dropping all pretense of professional omniscience and trusting their... Read more




