The Therapist's Craft

Challenges on the path to therapeutic connection, creativity, and healing

Can AI Make Us Better Therapists?

Using New Technology for Supervision

Work Issues at the Heart of Couples' Conflicts

Exploring Our Relationships with Our Jobs

Saying Goodbye to Work You Love

How Do Therapists Know When It's Time to Retire?

Releasing Guilt in Grief

The Vital Shift from Prevention to Postvention

Rethinking Codependence

An Attachment-Based Framework for Caregivers
Article November 6, 2025

A Case of Disappearing Desire

Two Approaches to a Client with Commitment Issues

Sex therapist Tammy Nelson and trauma specialist Frank Anderson take different paths to empower a client struggling with intimacy. Read more

Article November 6, 2025

5 Common Factors for Change in Therapy

A New Integrative Treatment Framework

Across all our therapeutic modalities, there are elements that most effectively create change. What do these elements have in common, and how can you integrate... Read more

Article November 6, 2025

Energy Psychology's Battle for Recognition

A Growing Healing Movement vs APA's Division 12

Of all the David-and-Goliath matchups in psychotherapy, few have had as many twists and turns as the one unfolding between energy psychology and the APA’s... Read more

Article November 6, 2025

Confusion in Therapyland

Finding Regulation in a Dysregulated World

A fantastical journey leads an overwhelmed clinician to unexpected interactions with some of our field's leading luminaries, including Ramani Durvasula, Terry... Read more

Article November 6, 2025

Flip Through the Magazine

...ON YOUR E-READER!

Check out the November/December issue of the digital magazine on the browser of your favorite device—and dive in from cover to cover! Read more

Article November 6, 2025

2025 Best Story Awards

Readers' Choice Awards

Discover the most popular stories and clinical insights voted on by readers and published in Psychotherapy Networker in 2025. Read more

Article November 5, 2025

The Adoption Crisis No One Wants to Name

How Adoptee Mentorship Can Save Lives

When it comes to adoption, families need preparation that's trauma-informed and racially literate. Read more

Article November 5, 2025

What Therapy Demands—and Gives Back

How Healing Happens on Both Sides of the Room

In therapy, healing is a living process that happens in real time through the courage to stay present and the therapeutic alliance. Read more

Article November 4, 2025

A Therapist Returns to Summer Camp

Rediscovering Community and Purpose in the Maine Woods

Decades later, a psychotherapist returns to summer camp, this time as an employee, and discovers the true meaning of growth and community. Read more

Article November 4, 2025

When DNA Testing Rewrites Your Story

Processing Unexpected Genetic Discoveries in Therapy

Genetic testing has led to shocking "DNA discoveries"—secrets unburied, followed by pain, grief, and trauma. Here's how therapists can help. Read more

Article September 26, 2025

Embracing Selfish Forgiveness

How to Help Clients Release a Grievance Story

When we’re tormented by resentment toward someone we believe has wronged us, forgiveness can be a form of self-care. Read more

Article August 29, 2025

Flip Through the Magazine!

... ON YOUR E-READER

Discover surprising antidotes to therapist burnout and fresh perspectives on healing in the midst of grind culture. Read more

Article August 29, 2025

An Hour with Irv Yalom

Changing Lives in a Single Session

In his late 80’s, as Irv Yalom’s memory began to flag, he offered one-time consultations to new clients—and still made an impact. Read more

Article August 29, 2025

Rest as Revolution

An Interview with The Nap Ministry's Tricia Hersey

Modern-day grind culture, with its roots in the profit-over-people mindset of chattel slavery, has normalized burnout as an inevitable part of life. How can... Read more

Article August 29, 2025

Why All Therapists Can (and Should) Ask About Sex

Tips for Bringing Up a Touchy Subject

Asking a client about sex doesn’t need to feel intimidating or awkward—but it is important for all therapists to do. Read more

Article August 29, 2025

The Turmoil Therapists Carry Alone

Facing the APES in Our Field

When it comes to processing work-related trauma, therapists are often isolated, shamed, and hamstrung by the guidelines meant to protect clients. Read more

Article August 29, 2025

The Truth about Autistic Burnout

Regaining Homeostasis in a Neurotypical World

On the surface, autistic burnout may present like depression in neurotypical clients, but treatment is considerably different. Read more

Article August 29, 2025

The Rock & Roll Sabbatical

Rethinking Time Off from Your Practice

In the midst of a busy clinical practice, it’s hard to imagine taking a vacation, much less a long sabbatical. But with the right plan and support, not only... Read more

Article August 29, 2025

The Case of the Busy Client

Two Approaches to Anxiety When Time is Scarce

Anxiety specialist Lynn Lyons and psychologist Lindsay Gibson share unexpected approaches to working with an overwhelmed, time-starved client. Read more

Article August 29, 2025

The Empathy Dial

Recalibrating Your Inner Resources

It seems counterintuitive that modulating empathy could benefit clients, but when your profession involves caring for others, it can help you maintain... Read more

Article August 29, 2025

Over the past few years, I found myself burning out on the whole problem of burnout. Then I came across The Nap Ministry. Read more

Article August 6, 2025

Triggers and Parental Abandonment

A Common Roadblock to Healing Trauma

Here's a four-step exercise therapists can use to help survivors of parental abandonment process trauma triggers. Read more

Article July 21, 2025

Escaping the Certainty Trap

How to Value Confusion as a Therapist

As therapists, we work hard to stay one step ahead of bad outcomes in session. But what if our real work is about embracing uncertainty alongside our clients? Read more

Article July 18, 2025

Humor in Trauma Work

Making Space for Our Whole Selves in Therapy

Healing doesn’t always start with crying. Sometimes it begins with a snort-laugh in a quiet office. Read more

Article July 17, 2025

The Autism vs Narcissism Confusion

Clarifying Dangerous Misconceptions Affecting Couples Today

Dr. Ramani Durvasula and Kory Andreas discuss why autism and narcissism are often misconstrued in intimate relationships. Read more

Article July 7, 2025

Ken Hardy on Racial Reactivity Today

A Clinical Tool for Navigating Defensiveness, Anger & Hopelessness

Ken Hardy has been presenting workshops on racial reactivity for over 30 years. What's different now? Read more

Article July 7, 2025

The Vulnerability Junkie

A Fresh Look at the Pursuer-Distancer Dynamic

We're all familiar with the pursuer-distancer dynamic, but are therapists missing the mark when it comes to helping withdrawers connect? Couples therapist... Read more

Article July 7, 2025

Embodied Healing in a Disembodied World

Metabolizing Intergenerational Trauma & Collective Grief

Linda Thai takes a holistic approach to healing from trauma, addiction, and attachment wounding—one that includes reverence for our bodies, nature, and time... Read more

Article July 7, 2025

When Grief Is a Soft, Grey Animal

Megan Devine & Leanne Campbell Reveal Unlikely Paths to Healing

Grief expert Megan Devine & EFT trainer Leanne Campbell help a relationally fulfilled, successful, father-to-be explore his persistent grief over the loss of... Read more

Article July 7, 2025

Flip Through the Magazine!

Brave New Conversations on the Heart of Healing

Experience some of the most meaningful moments that happened at Psychotherapy Networker’s annual Symposium in 2025, with some of the premiere thought leaders... Read more