The Best and Beloved Stories from 2023
Our Staff Picks from a Year of Psychotherapy NetworkerHere are the Psychotherapy Networker magazine articles that were the most read and most loved amongst our editors. Read more
Supporting Our Dreams as Therapists
A Conversation with Shadeen Francis and Alexandra SolomonWatch Shadeen Francis and Alexandra Solomon discuss how clinicians can work together to achieve their professional development goals. Read more
Practice Tools: January/February 2024
The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!This month’s selection is from Laura Copley’s, Loving You is Hurting Me: A New Approach to Healing Trauma Bonds and Creating Authentic Connection. Read more
Co-parenting Plan Mediator Certificate Course: Create a Peaceful, Effective Co-parenting Strategy for Divorcing or Separating Clients
As a mental health clinician, you encounter couples ending marriages, grappling with painful resentments, communication breakdowns, and fears of an uncertain... Read more
Unleashing the Power of Process-Based Therapy: Moving Beyond Diagnoses to Powerful, Personalized Change
Say goodbye to the outdated era of “protocols for syndromes.” It’s time to shift the focus from just treating symptoms to understanding the... Read more
Wrestling with Fear as a Jewish Therapist
Finding the Light in the Darkness"There’s an unfamiliar pressure around my brain that’s been building since Hamas’s attack last month. My worry isn’t just for my family, it’s for... Read more
Moral Injury: The Missing Piece in Treating Trauma
A Conversation with Jack SaulResearch shows that the bigger driver of suicide amongst veterans isn’t PTSD, but moral injury. Understanding what moral injury is and how it’s distinct... Read more
LGBTQ Youth: Clinical Strategies to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
A 9-year-old boy took his own life, just days after coming out to his peers as gay, due to the severe bullying he received. Sadly, he is not alone, suicide... Read more
Healing the Hidden Wounds of Trauma and Disconnection: Featuring Millennial Therapist Sara Kuburic
Clients are coming to us saying things like: “I don’t know what I’m doing with my life” … “I feel like I’m just... Read more
Body Image: Effective Interventions to Help Clients Shift Negative Thoughts, Perceptions, Emotions, and Behaviors
So many of our clients are unhappy and preoccupied with how they look, harboring deeply held beliefs that their body is not right in some way. They might talk... Read more
ADHD and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
ADHD, characterized by issues of attention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and executive function often result in interference in all areas of functioning..... Read more
Social Media for Therapists: How to Practically & Ethically Become an Influential Clinician Online
Most therapists I talk to have a love-hate relationship with social media. On the one hand growing a large following online can do wonders for... Read more
Anxious Grief
Grief and anxiety are inextricably linked. Anxious Grief is the missing link to grief treatment that professionals have been waiting for. Written by... Read more
Chronic Medical Illness: ACT, CBT, and MI to Improve Anxiety, Grief, Pain, and Functioning
When clients have chronic health problems, therapy becomes even more complicated. Already struggling with their mental health symptoms, these clients are... Read more
Reclaiming Black Imagination
The PRIDE Approach to HealingA new approach embraces the somatic wisdom and indigenous knowledge of BIPOC clients. Read more
Am I A Good Therapist Yet?
Reconciling Professional Ideals with RealityLofty visions of our capabilities as therapists can fuel us early in our careers, but at some point, we have to reckon with the reality that we can’t help... Read more
Spiritual Issues in Secular Treatment
When a Client Wants to Reconnect with Their FaithAre therapists equipped to support clients who want to reconnect with their spiritual faith? Read more
Action Man Meets Therapy Guy
Switching Careers in MidlifeWhen a journalist and rock climber decides to become a therapist, he embarks on a new understanding of himself. Read more
Editor's Note: November/December 2023
Practical Advice for New TherapistsA recent survey shows that fewer than half of people who graduate from therapy training programs ever make it to licensure. Why are so many emerging therapists... Read more
The Anxious Warrior
Fighting Fear with Krav MagaAn anxious mom steps out of her fortress of solitude and onto the martial-arts mat. Read more
Rethinking Codependence
An Attachment-Based Framework for CaregiversDoes codependency pathologize our natural willingness to help those we love? Read more
When a Tornado Ripped Through My Therapy Room
How My Client and I Survived DisasterA therapist and client face unexpected dangers that reveal new facets of their humanity and vulnerability. Read more