The Challenge of Open Relationships
Can They Ever Work?While many therapists are skeptical of open relationships, some believe that, with the right couple, they can work. Read more
Solutions for Moving Beyond the Therapeutic Impasse
Three Strategies for Making Progress with Stuck ClientsWhen clients get immersed in their problems, they often suffer from a kind of tunnel vision, focused on a small range of experiences, with their bad feelings... Read more
Domestic Violence
Clients who are victims of domestic abuse may not be seeing you because they want to escape their abusive home or need treatment for PTSD or trauma. A client... Read more
Sex Made Simple
Sex Made Simple is a comprehensive guide to healing sexual issues and dysfunction, with dozens of strategies, techniques and methods to promote healthy... Read more
Behavior Management Skills Guide
Behavior Management Skills Guide is a unique resource that covers the process of changing behavior in children and adolescents - from start to finish. With... Read more
How Psychotherapy Helps Us Recover the Beauty in Our Lives
Questions for Helping Therapy Clients Reclaim MeaningMany walk into the therapist's consulting room exactly at the moment that they have been stripped to the core of their being. While not at the physical... Read more
Uncovering the Source of Suicidality with Brain Science
Are Serotonin Levels the Key Factor in Suicidal Depression?I'm at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in northern Manhattan. My guide, Victoria, has been studying the brains of people who committed suicide, and... Read more
Don't Go It Alone
The Power of Focusing PartnershipsIt’s not exactly a state secret: most of us become therapists because we want to help people. We want to help them feel less alone with their pain and find... Read more
Rediscovering Happiness
The Use of Positive Childhood Triggers in PsychotherapyTo create deep change, we need to help people mine the sources of intense pleasure in their lives, wherever they may find them. Read more
Is Ketamine the New Antidepressant to Rave About?
Since it was introduced as an anesthetic in the 1970s, ketamine has occupied an uncertain pharmacological status. It’s been used as both a Vietnam-era... Read more
The Whole-Brain Child Workbook
Dan and Tina talk about their workbook: A Personalized Workbook to Help You Deepen, Reflect On, and Apply Whole-Brain Principles Daniel J. Siegel and Tina... Read more
Rewriting the 'Difficult Mother' Story
A Son Embraces a New NarrativeSorting through his mother’s personal files in the wake of her dementia, a son discovers more than he expected. Read more
Brave New Couples
What Can Science Tell Us about the Changing Face of Couplehood Today?Susan Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, discusses what the science of love says about what couples can expect when they rebel too much... Read more
Editor's Note - May/June 2015
Throughout history, for most people it was just expected that work was a difficult, tedious, underpaying, and often soul-killing grind. But in today’s world... Read more
Surviving Treatment Reviews
How to Speak the Language of Insurance PlansHow to speak the language of medical necessity. Read more
Burnout Reconsidered
What Supershrinks Can Teach UsJessica, a counselor in her mid-30’s, works at a large, public mental health clinic in a major metropolitan area. Her workday begins early, the alarm... Read more
6 Micro-Practices for Self-Care
The Power of Little and OftenMany common self-care practices feel like an additional burden to those struggling with burnout. Micro self-care practices, which cost nothing and take... Read more
Getting Over Weight?
A Critic of our Cultural Obsession Goes Too FarA critic of one of our central cultural obsessions goes too far Read more
The Colors of Tomorrow
Highlights From Symposium 2015After a brutal winter that would’ve given Ernest Shackleton pause, more than 3,700 therapists welcomed the opportunity to escape cabin fever, get out of the... Read more
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
A book for clinicians and clients to use together that explains key concepts of body psychotherapy. The body’s intelligence is largely an untapped... Read more
The Therapeutic "Aha!": 10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients Unstuck
A concise guide to shaking things up in therapy. Courtney Armstrong’s The Therapeutic “Aha!” explores the thrilling and rare moment when a... Read more
Addressing Race Therapeutically in Black Relationships
Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker SymposiumToday I attended a workshop called “Working with Black Couples: Overcoming Myths and Stereotypes,” led by Dr. Christiana Awosan. Being an African American... Read more
The Therapeutic Goldmine of Song, Dance, and Mindfulness
Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker SymposiumJohn Kabat-Zinn sparked my interest when he recounted the time Oprah asked him, "Is there life after death?" His reply to her: "Oprah, I'm interested in the... Read more
VIDEO: Getting around Kids' Defense Systems
Using Animal FriendsIt can be hard to get around your young clients’ defense systems so that the good, therapeutic information gets through. Charlotte has a way to get around... Read more
Addressing Race and Culture in the Therapy Room
Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker SymposiumAs a family therapist, I know the power of thinking relationally, collaborating, and working across difference to find the many places where we actually share... Read more
Mindfulness, Conscious Breathing Exercises, and Cyber Intimacy
Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker SymposiumAlthough I have read his books and seen many videos of him in action, today's Networker Symposium workshop was the first in-person opportunity I've had to hear... Read more
Couples Therapy, Brainspotting, and Truth in Love
Testimonials from the 2015 Psychotherapy Networker SymposiumI had the pleasure of attending the Brainspotting seminar with David Grand today. What fresh and amazing information! I am drawn to anything that involves the... Read more
