Are Licensing Exams Failing Clinicians?
Reevaluating Our GatekeepingDespite the need to assess competency, some say licensing exams risk leaving good clinicians behind. Read more
The Couple Who Changed Me
Help Can Come from Unexpected SourcesThe strongest couples are the ones who are open to help—the ones who can surround themselves with allies, inviting others into the trenches with them. Read more
Supporting Women's Voices
Carol Gilligan on Today's PatriarchyMore than 50 years after feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan's pivotal study on how women think about the choices in their lives, she speaks up about our... Read more
Love Is An Action Verb
The Body Work of MotheringBefore we learn verbal language, we communicate through our bodies, making mothering a physical act of love. Read more
The Postpartum Experience
What Therapists Need to KnowMany therapists don't realize that treating depression or anxiety generally isn't the same as treating these mood disorders in the perinatal period. Read more
Taking the Podium
The Growing Influence of Women in PsychotherapyDespite an increasing diversity in race and ethnicity, the psychotherapy field is primarily filled with women—a reversal that's taken place over the last 50... Read more
Embracing Gender-Pleasure
How to Feel Yummy in Our BodiesFor trans folks, attuning to gender-pleasure allows them to resist harmful cultural scripts—but it can be a radical act of resistance for cis folks too. Read more
Daring to Dance
How Can We Help Women Take Pleasure?Pleasure-taking connects women to their bodies, roots them in the present, and fosters resilience. What could be blocking today's women from such a seemingly... Read more
Fair Play at Home
Are Women Still Carrying the Heavier Load?Eve Rodsky is on a mission: to rebalance the "mental load" that many women still unfairly shoulder in domestic life, affecting their physical health... Read more
Editor's Note: November/December 2022
Listening to Women's VoicesRecently, researchers have highlighted just how much of the emotional labor and mental load women in heterosexual households still carry. Read more
Emotional Recognition Practices: Our body is our tool
This workshop offers a safe place to explore a basic skill we hope our clients will develop as we work with them towards healing after trauma. As we are... Read more
Emotions in this time of climate change
The climate crisis is being experienced in every country and on every continent. We are at a crossroads, with ecological breakdown threatening personal... Read more
Regulating the nervous system – brakes and accelerators
After traumatic experiences it is common for the nervous system to get stuck in a hyper aroused and/or hypo aroused state leading to multiple difficulties... Read more
‘Implicit relational knowing’, ‘engagement and the charged other’ and ‘being moved’: Key emotion processes in both shorter-term and longer-term relational psychodynamic psychotherapy (and other forms of therapy).
“The essence of psychotherapy is the experience of the therapeutic relationship and using that to alleviate suffering. Descriptions on the written page... Read more
Emotion Regulation and Cognitively Impaired Clients
This recording will explore successful emotion regulation skills and strategies to use with cognitively impaired clients. This includes looking at the function... Read more
The Anatomy of Our Anxiety
We will explore a paradigm-shifting approach to managing anxiety, based on the understanding that anxiety is not all in our heads, but also in our bodies... Read more
Integrating Difficult Emotions with Acceptance and Commitment
What if we did not try to ‘work on’ difficult emotions but accepted these emotions as part of our human experience? Acceptance and commitment... Read more
Reconceptualising “Addiction" as Chronic Emotion Dysregulation
For too long, addiction has been misunderstood and stigmatised. Engaging in ongoing substance use or repetitive harmful behaviours has been conceptualised as... Read more
Anger: From Dysregulation to Regulation in Both Client and Therapist
Few practitioners escape dealing with angry clients. When this occurs, both clients and therapists find it very distressing. Attending this workshop will help... Read more
Anchored: A Polyvagal Guide to Navigating Challenging Times
The autonomic nervous system is at the heart of daily living powerfully shaping our experiences of safety and influencing our capacity for connection. What... Read more
Glorious Me: Recapturing and Savouring Beautiful Emotions
Imagine us all having 2 parts; one is glorious and the other is messed up. As therapists we can over-focus on the messed up part and under-focus on the... Read more
The River Beneath: Embodied Emotions towards Trauma Resolution
Trauma experiences leave a wake of conflicting emotions. Overwhelm, grief, shame, sadness, anger are all common experiences that are associated with trauma. It... Read more
Treating Systemic Trauma in the African American Community
A Conversation with Dr. Jennifer PayneJoin Networker’s Anna Lock and Jennifer Payne, Ph.D, LCSW, author, research scientist, and clinician as they discuss how Dr. Payne works to culturally tailor... Read more
The Chronic Pain Foxhole: Strategies for Treating Pain in the Military and Veteran Populations
Without a fundamental understanding of military culture and how service members and veterans view pain, you’ll be unprepared to help your clients manage... Read more
