What Do Therapists Know?
Learning and Growing Alongside Our ClientsAs therapists, we get to explore the mysteries of being human for a living—and to apply what we learn to our own lives. How amazing is that? Read more
Love Letters to The Field
Supporting Our Big, Hairy, Audacious DreamsBy cultivating professional relationships across differences in ages and clinical experience, we keep each other’s big dreams alive, bridge knowledge gaps... Read more
The Heart of Gladness
Why Joy and Sorrow Need Each OtherAcclaimed poet and essayist Ross Gay considers the “wild and unboundaried solidarity” that joy can bring into our lives. Read more
Babette Rothschild on What’s Missing in Trauma Work
Choosing the Tools that Fit Your ClientA pioneer in somatic trauma treatment reminds us that humans have recovered from trauma for thousands of years without our favorite therapy approaches. Read more
Let's Talk About Death—and Pass the Cookies
How Death Cafés Can Enrich Our LivesWhat is a death café? And why do so many people find them therapeutic? Read more
Finding Your Way As a New Clinician
Three Tips to Guide Your First SessionAfter 34 years in practice, a therapist offers advice on what to remember before seeing your first client. Read more
Gifts of the Emerging Therapist
Tapping into the Power of Starting OutClinical experience is invaluable, but there are many unsung advantages to seeing therapists who are just starting out. Read more
The Long, Lonely Trek to Licensure
Is Becoming a Therapist Harder than Ever?Many beginning therapists are burning out and leaving the field before they’re able to gain their professional footing. How can we support them better? Read more
A Supervisor Finds a New Path
An out-of-the-box idea from two enterprising college students reignites the passion of a former supervisor. Read more
Autism: De-Escalate Meltdowns and Diffuse Explosive Behaviors in Children and Adolescents
Do you work with children and adolescents with autism who exhibit explosive behaviors that interfere with their ability to effectively and efficiently navigate... Read more
2-Day: Trauma Conference: The Body Keeps the Score-Trauma Healing Through the Senses with Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Nobody can “treat” abuse, rape, molestation, or any other horrendous event. What has happened cannot be undone. But what can be dealt with are the... Read more
November/December 2023: Being a New Therapist: When Dreams and Challenges Collide
This issue looks at the challenges and opportunities facing new clinicians, including the sense of mission and fresh ideas they bring to their work, but also... Read more
Being a New Therapist
When Dreams and Challenges CollideRead the November/December issue of Psychotherapy Networker as we explore the professional lives of new clinicians Read more
Practice Tools: November/December 2023
The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!This month’s selection is from Alexandra Solomon’s, Love Every Day: 365 Relationship Self-Awareness Practices to Help Your Relationship Heal, Grow and... Read more
Listen, Learn, and Grow
Listening Larry is back, and he’s learned a few things about neurodiversity. It’s true that when we listen, we often use each ear. But listening... Read more
Loving You Without Losing Me: Relational Self-Awareness Tools to Help Your Clients Transform Problematic Patterns of the Past and Create Healthy Intimate Relationships Today
Do your clients continue to struggle to connect to their intimate partners because of toxic family dynamics, unhealed trauma, or emotional "baggage"... Read more
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Trauma recovery is as much about healing the body as it is the mind. Yet, so often, the focus of healing involves retelling the story of the past without... Read more