The Unspeakable Language of Sex
Why Are We Still so Tongue-Tied?If you’re like most couples therapists, you know how to help partners communicate more clearly, handle conflict with less uproar, and connect more... Read more
Editor's Note - January/February 2016
I suspect that no matter how sophisticated we become about sex in the abstract, there’s some half-hidden, unacknowledged suspicion within most of us that... Read more
Transforming Sexual Narratives
From Dysfunction to DiscoveryTherapists too often ignore the importance of the longstanding, often unconscious stories that partners carry with them into their sexual relationship. Helping... Read more
The Case for Porn
Porn is polarizing. Porn is confusing. Porn can be alarming. For therapists, porn can push us out of our comfort zone and trigger negative countertransference... Read more
Advanced CBT Strategies for Chronic or Recurrent Depression & Anxiety
Effective strategies for relapsing clients Advanced & cutting-edge CBT techniques Case examples Join CBT expert and author, John Ludgate, Ph.D., and... Read more
In Search of the Big Story
Learning to Ask the Beautiful QuestionThis March, poet, storyteller, and philosopher David Whyte—this year’s Symposium keynoter—returns to Washington DC to share his wisdom. Whyte specializes... Read more
Be Mindful Card Deck for Teens
Reduce Stress, Improve Self-Care and Find Focus Be Mindful cards offer you 50 ways to be present to your life as it is actually taking place. These... Read more
The Secret to Helping Agitated Couples Reel in Emotional Arousal
How Oxytocin Stimulates Trust and Connection, and Helps Relationships HealWhen clients are emotionally worked up, caught in fight-flight-freeze mode, all their hard-earned skills in empathic listening and responsible (and responsive... Read more
Breaking the Chain of Resentment
How to Help Clients Move Past Old WoundsHow do you strike a balance between validation and empowerment in helping those afflicted with chronic resentment? Read more
Destigmatizing Autism
The Future of NeurodiversityAuthor Steve Silberman discusses what it means to view autistic people as individuals seeing the world in a different way, rather than just a checklist of... Read more
Community Mental Health Today
Encompassing the Big & the SmallThe promise of the community mental health movement of the 1960s, providing high-quality psychological and social services to poor families, remains unfullled... Read more
Who Do You Trust?
Revisiting the McMartin Preschool CaseSometimes it can be easier to argue about witch-hunts than risk confronting the dark, unsavory reality of child abuse. Read more
Has CBT Lost Its Mojo?
Questions have been raised about whether the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy, the field’s most researched treatment model, has been overstated. Read more
Editor's Note - November/December 2015
This issue of the Networker is an attempt to explore what we can contribute as a profession to the “conversation about race,” which, as lame and ungainly... Read more
A Cure for the Yips
Brainspotting and Performance BlocksTraumatic experiences are often the root of athletic and other kinds of performance blocks. Read more
The View From Black America
Listening to the Untold StoriesMany poor, young, black people see themselves as trapped behind a wall-less prison with no exits. They know all too well that their daily experience—whether... Read more
Saturdays Lost
Revisiting a Bittersweet RitualA son remembers a distant father and the bittersweet ritual that bonded them. Read more
Black Unlike Me
Some Uncomfortable Reflections on Growing Up WhiteAt a time when many are calling for a renewed national conversation about race, an aging, liberal, white New Yorker—who admits he’s never been a party to... Read more
Lessons from the Love Lab
The Science of Couples TherapyThe pioneers who birthed couples and family therapy never paused to scienti cally study the relationships they treated. Now, after systematically observing and... Read more
Helping Therapy Clients Cope with the Reality of Death
Clinical Wisdom to Combat Fear, Anxiety, and Grief at the End of LifeFor 17 years, managing responses to death has become part of my work, whether originally my intention or not. I’ve aspired to helping families hang tough... Read more
ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens
Congratulations to Debra Burdick and ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens on winning the gold medal at the 2017 IBPA... Read more
Multicultural Counseling Workbook
Cultural competency begins with knowing who you are. Interactive, engaging and fun -- this workbook is filled with valuable exercises, worksheet, games and... Read more
Schema Therapy: Proven Techniques to Treat Your Most Challenging and Resistant Clients
Anxiety Chronic Depression Eating Disorders BPD Substance Abuse Narcissism Schema therapy is an innovative, integrated therapeutic approach... Read more
Pornography on the Rise: A Growing Mental Health Problem
Wendy Maltz on the Need to Address Porn Addiction as a Public Health ThreatNearly 40 million Americans visit Internet porn sites at least once a month. Not surprisingly, concerns about the effect of porn on individuals and... Read more
A Brain Science Strategy for Overwriting Traumatic Memories
Creating Juxtaposition Experiences to Relieve Trauma SymptomsWhat we clinicians have learned in recent years about the intricacies of the brain's implicit memory systems has certainly helped us better recognize the... Read more
VIDEO: Moving Forward When Treatment Seems to Make a Problem Worse
Chris Germer on shifting the focus from fixing a problem to embracing it with compassionWhat someone resists persists. It’s a paradoxical dynamic that you’ve probably seen in the course of your own clinical work. In this video, Chris explains... Read more
