Taking Play Therapy Seriously
The Surprising Journey to Widespread AcceptanceMany play therapists still find themselves having to explain what they do and why it works. But after more than a century, play therapy has finally come into... Read more
Awakening the Playful Self
A Depressed Client Rediscovers ConnectionTo help our clients grow into their most fulfilled selves, we can do more than mitigate negative or enervating thoughts. Read more
You've Got to Be Kidding
The Power of Humor in TherapyShared laughter is an attachment language. Though therapists usually engage more knowingly with tears, the exchange of brighter affect is another kind of... Read more
Editor's Note: May/June 2022
Are You and Your Clients Having Fun?If play is so vital to our health and well-being, why isn’t it emphasized more in the adult therapy world? And for those who take the leap and inject some... Read more
Frontiers of Therapeutic Interventions
Prominent researchers and mental health professionals in the field of trauma provide cutting edge and diverse approaches to trauma treatment in this recording... Read more
Social Justice
Trauma is closely intertwined with social conditions, such as wars, social inequality and domestic power relationships. Psychiatry has largely relied on... Read more
Basic Neurobiology
This recording provides an overview of neurobiology and helps clinicians understand how to best treat their clients who were maltreated in childhood. Bessel A... Read more
Trauma and Society
In this recording, Dr. Andrew Meltzoff will discuss infant imitation, mirroring, and the development of self-other relations. Dr. Alex Sabo will discuss... Read more
The Heart of an Affair
A Conversation with Bill DohertyBill Doherty talks with Networker on how to help clients get clarity around the ethical dimensions of secret affairs and the dilemmas that often show up in... Read more
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Grief: Attachment-Based Interventions to Move Clients Through Loss into Growth and Resilience
“Who am I now? I can’t imagine my life without them.” Grief is unpredictable. In response to this shock to the attachment system, your... Read more
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Grief: Attachment-Based Interventions to Move Clients Through Loss into Growth and Resilience
“Who am I now? I can’t imagine my life without them.” Grief is unpredictable. In response to this shock to the attachment system, your... Read more
Play-Based Healing with Children and Adolescents
Margaret Blaustein, Lou Bergholz and Dafna Lender present a magical morning of learning, collaboration, and play! Children all need to feel safe in order to... Read more
The Racial Trauma Treatment Protocol: A 12-Session CBT Approach for Therapists Working with Racial Wounds
Racial stress and trauma are common presentations in therapy…and the number of clients needing treatment is only expected to grow. But there are few... Read more
Embodiment, Theater and Using Shakespeare to Organize Traumatized Minds and Bodies
One of the most effective ways to create transformative moments is through play--interactive, face-to-face, reciprocal, cooperative interactions that rely on... Read more
The Racial Trauma Treatment Protocol: A 12-Session CBT Approach for Therapists Working with Racial Wounds
Racial stress and trauma are common presentations in therapy…and the number of clients needing treatment is only expected to grow. But there are few... Read more
ADHD & Couples Therapy
By the time couples struggling with ADHD come to your office their relationship is a tangled mess. Each partner blames the other and both feel... Read more
Time Management & Executive Functioning Strategies for Adults with ADHD
Often adult ADHD clients’ poor time management negatively impacts therapy… They’re late for sessions, struggling to anticipate rewards or... Read more
VIDEO: How 2 Lessons from Improv Can Make You a Better Therapist
A Conversation with Michael AlcéeNetworker talks with Michael Alcée as he offers powerful strategies drawn from the field of improv that will help you find your voice while navigating the... Read more
Comprehensive DSM-5-TR™ Updates: New Diagnoses, Coding Changes & Cultural Considerations
Neglecting new diagnoses, making coding errors & culturally insensitive language faux pas can be time-consuming, frustrating & cause you to lose... Read more
Big Behaviors in Small Containers: Trauma Informed Play Therapy Interventions for Dysregulation
When it comes to working with children, sometimes the biggest behaviors come in the smallest containers. Sometimes these behaviors are externalizing... Read more
Creating a Safe Haven for Families in the Playroom to Rest, Refuel and Replenish
Helping families learn how to repair, restore, and create secure attachment happens as they come into the play therapy room for the first time. Parents... Read more
Affirming Play Therapy Approaches - The Agent of Change for Neurodivergent Kids
Neurodivergent children (autistic, ADHD, learning differences, sensory differences) represent a unique and large part of the population of children that... Read more
The Healing Power of Community
A Conversation with Shawna Murray-BrowneNetworker talks with Shawna Murray-Browne about ways to bridge racial barriers in and outside of the therapy room. Read more
The Power of Play: Promoting an IntraConnected Relational Experience of Self
In this recording, the science of the experience of self, identity and belonging will be explored. This session will examine the extremes of the independent... Read more
Tele-Play the Preschool Way! Interactive Play Therapy Interventions for Engaging Young Children
In this recording, view Preschool Play Therapist, Amy Nelson, as she reveals a detailed blueprint for designing effective tele-play therapy sessions with... Read more
Virtual Sandtray: Remaining Connected Through a Powerful Projective Intervention
Digital natives have been flooding your caseload with interests and ideas that might leave you wondering about how to engage clients. Speaking the... Read more
Sand Therapy: A Powerful Tool to Create Safety and Healing for Trauma, Anxiety & More
Sand therapy is a powerful neurobiological approach to treating children, teens and families with trauma, anxiety, and attachment issues. In this 90-minute... Read more
Superheroes and Video Games: Creating Epic Adventures in Child & Adolescent Therapy
Video games can transport us to worlds beyond our imagination. A board game can send us on an epic adventure and fulfilling side quests, while the origin... Read more
Creating Diversity in the Practice of Play Therapy: More Than Color, More Than Gender
Conventional thinking around culture and diversity often focuses on aspects like skin color and sexual identity, excluding aspects of formed social, cultural... Read more


