Staying fine-tuned to self-care through ongoing self-awareness and regular, mindful personal-battery recharging is imperative for clinicians. Read more

Practice Tools for the November/December 2022 issue are courtesy of Eve Rodsky and Fair Play. Read more

How to build a therapeutic relationship from the first session that keeps clients coming back. Read more

Sure, your clients may find therapy helpful. But do they find it memorable? How can we get clients to retain all the wonderful information they learn in... Read more

Practice Tools for the September/October 2022 issue of Psychotherapy Networker are for clients who are worried about a loved one's diminishing cognitive... Read more

At 92, a pugnacious client discovers that it’s never too late to change. Read more

According to psychoanalysis, we all carry an imago—an image of our parents inside of us. But what do you do when the negative, traumatic, or unconscious... Read more

Unfortunately, there's no playbook for beginning and ending therapy. So how do you make first and last sessions not only less awkward, but memorable and... Read more

When clients cry in therapy, should you pass the tissues? And what do you say? One clinician worries his clients might interpret passing tissues as him rushing... Read more

Download this issue's FREE copy of materials that will help you in your practice. Read more

Rather than proclaiming that you understand a client's experience, you're far better off assuming that you don't have a clue what they're going through. Read more

We’ve put together a video reel of therapists sharing some of the playful moments they’ve had with clients... Read more

Handouts and worksheets are helpful ways of reinforcing therapeutic interventions, helping clients develop new skills, and kickstarting change. That’s why in... Read more

In this collection, master therapists share how they’ve used humor in ways that both enliven and enrich the work of therapy. Read more

Shared laughter is an attachment language. Though therapists usually engage more knowingly with tears, the exchange of brighter affect is another kind of... Read more

Networker 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

Therapy can be serious, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for a joke here and there. Here, clinicians share how they used humor to help clients... Read more

Three therapists share their stories about the learning experiences and “happy accidents” that helped make them better clinicians. Read more

Therapy is hard work. But what are therapy’s biggest challenges, and how do therapists overcome them? Here, five therapists share the clinical challenge that... Read more

Self-care has long been touted as a panacea for burnout. Emily Nagoski has a different solution. Read more

As the years pass, is it possible that the more we work with long-term clients, the more we might overlook bigger issues that aren’t being addressed? Read more

Most therapists struggle with guilt and self-blame related to their work. Thankfully, there are ways to leverage these feelings so we can grow from them. Read more

Five therapists share how they bring play and humor into their work. Read more

Over 40 years, a long-term client gives renowned trauma therapist Janina Fisher an opportunity to recover from clinical mistakes and apply new frameworks and... Read more

A client has a lot of regret about past decisions he’s made, and although his therapist has talked with him about them at length, the client still can't seem... Read more

Seeing clients through the COVID-19 crisis has shown us not only that psychotherapy can be effective outside the traditional frame—complete with an office... Read more

Despite our best intentions, sometimes our problems grow so big that they slam into our work—and the result can be surprising. Read more

Is the problem with compassion fatigue that we get tired of being compassionate toward others—or that we aren’t being compassionate toward ourselves? Read more

When a therapist finally confronts his tendency to dissociate, his work takes a life-changing turn. Read more

When therapy stagnates, sometimes it takes a mistake to catalyze change. Read more