My First Client, My Best Teacher
From an Evening of Storytelling 2018A challenging client, who won't speak or swallow, teaches a therapist just starting out how to find her own voice. Read more
The Hearing
From an Evening of Storytelling 2018A therapist tries to ride to the rescue of an immigrant client in a desperate situation. Read more
The Symposium and the Psychology of Shopping
Highlights from Symposium 2018In Networker editor Rich Simon’s introduction to the conference, he likened it to a deeply stimulating marketplace of ideas, where clinicians get an expanded... Read more
Peter Levine PhD on Trauma: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
International trauma expert and author, Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. will teach you how sensation-based treatment (as opposed to emotional or rational-based... Read more
Coping Skills for Kids Workbook
Dealing with stress, anxiety and anger are important skills to learn, but not all kids learn those strategies naturally. The Coping Skills for Kids Workbook... Read more
The Retiring Rebel
Rethinking the Way We Help Clients Face the Midlife CrisisRather than thinking of midlife as an emotional unraveling, I believe it’s more helpful to reframe this stage of life in our early 50s and 60s as “second... Read more
Jump-Starting Conversation in Family Therapy
The Difference Between Guiding and InterveningHow do you get family members to talk together productively? Enactments can be among the most valuable tools for getting a family's communication going. Read more
Learn from the Masters: The Neuroscience of Stress, Depression and Developmental Trauma: Connect Physiology to Psychology with Dr. Robert Sapolsky
In this captivating recording, you’ll have the rare opportunity to learn from Dr. Robert Sapolsky, one of the world’s leading researchers on the... Read more
Six Ways to Find Comedy in Even the Darkest Moments
Shaking Your Clients Loose from Their Tragic StancesTherapy, in order to shake people loose from their tragic stances and bounce them into the human comedy, is at its best when it is funny, when the tragic... Read more
Therapists Talk Gun Violence
Brainstorming Ways to Make a DifferenceAs an estimated half-a-million protestors poured into downtown Washington, DC for the March for Our Lives, therapists who were in town for their field’s... Read more
Just One Thing Card Deck
We are so busy these days that it’s great to have just one thing to focus on: a simple practice to reflect on and be inspired by that will gradually... Read more
Family Therapy as We Know It Needs to Change
To Reach Troubled Adolescents, Look to the "Second Family"Editor’s Note: This article this blog is taken from originally appeared in the March/April 1996 issue of Psychotherapy Networker. When his family was... Read more
Couples Therapy for Treating Trauma: The Gottman Method Approach
Trauma treatments have largely ignored the interpersonal symptoms of PTSD. But whether caused by early abandonment, childhood abuse, military combat, or other... Read more
The Last-Chance Couple: Saving Relationships on the Eve of Destruction
Unhappy couples often present in ways that offer little promise their relationship can be saved, leaving the partners feeling helpless and the therapist... Read more
Bringing a Polyvagal Perspective into Therapy: How to Safely Navigate Emotional Storms
When life—and therapy—brings scary moments, it’s the body’s autonomic nervous system that takes action. Polyvagal Theory has... Read more
Applying Mindfulness in Therapy with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman
Supported by neuroscience research, mindfulness practice has demonstrated its ability to ease stress, control anxiety and depression, and improve cognition... Read more
Taking in the Good: Mindfulness for Teens and Young Adults
As they try to navigate the demands of school, online social lives, and daily pressures, many teens and young adults today are worried, in pain, angry, and... Read more
Working with Cross-Cultural Couples: Unexplored Issues in Therapy
In the United States, 1 in 6 new marriages is interethnic or interracial. Today’s therapists need to be equipped to help cross-cultural couples not only... Read more
What Parents Really Want: Cooperation without Punishment
Clients challenged by their children often resort to old-fashioned reward and threat strategies like timeouts, sticker charts, and consequences. But the best... Read more
Grief and Addiction
As a result of the opioid epidemic, the United States saw its largest recorded increase in overdose deaths last year, which is now officially the leading cause... Read more
John Gottman & Julie Gottman on the New Science of Couples and Family Therapy
The names John and Julie Gottman have become synonymous with scientifically sound couples practice. They’ve spent decades developing an evidence base for... Read more
The Gottman Method Approach to Better Couples Therapy
In recent years, research has identified key, measurable elements of happy and stable long-term relationships. They include trust, attunement, listening... Read more
Sex Therapy for the 21st Century
Effective sex therapy goes beyond what happens in the consulting room and requires behavioral interventions that clients can work on between sessions. Although... Read more
Creating Safety with High-Conflict Couples: A Nonverbal Approach
High-conflict couples can stop even the most experienced therapist, turning the office into a verbal boxing ring, and us into referees or speechless... Read more
Working with Autism and Anxiety: Hidden Problems and Effective Solutions
High-functioning autism isn’t always easy to spot. But when clients who enter therapy for panic, anxiety, or social phobia fail to respond to standard... Read more
Playful Approaches with Kids and Teens: A Crash Course in the Kids’ Skills Method
If you’ve been under the impression that therapy with children and teenagers always needs to be serious business, be prepared to change your mind. In... Read more