
Clinical Practice & Guidance
Tips and techniques from your colleaguesPractice Tools: November/December 2022
The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!Practice Tools for the November/December 2022 issue are courtesy of Eve Rodsky and Fair Play. Read more
Helping Couples on the Brink
How Validating Ambivalence Can Foster HopeHow can we meet last-chance couples exactly where they are? 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
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
How Do I Make Therapy Stick?
Creating a Vision, Building Momentum Between Sessions, and MoreSure, 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
Breaking the Generational Cycle of Worry in Families
An Interview with Lynn LyonsIn this Networker Live event, editor in chief Livia Kent talks with author Lynn Lyons, LICSW, about anxiety and families. Read more
Changing How We Think about Youth Suicide
An Interview with David JobesIn this Networker Live event, senior editor Chris Lyford speaks with suicidologist Dr. David Jobes about the impact of ideation. Read more
Therapy for People Living with Dementia
An Interview with Nancy KrisemanIn this Networker Live event, senior editor Alicia Muñoz talks with Nancy Kriseman, LICSW, about how therapists can better serve their clients who are... Read more
From her book 'Body Aware' author Erica Hornthal shares mindful exercises that will help with self-regulation of your emotional thermostat. Read more
Recognizing Medical Trauma
How Therapists Can InterveneDespite its pervasiveness, medical trauma often goes unrecognized. Read more
The Ideation Factor
Changing How We Think about Youth SuicideSuicidal ideation among teens is overlooked, understudied, and sometimes even willfully ignored. Read more
The Fear of Exposure Therapy
Reframing Our ApproachOur willingness to face shared existential struggles right alongside our clients can make exposure therapy not only tolerable, but transformative. Read more
Sex and the Older Couple
Helping Partners Reimagine DesirePlenty of therapists have internalized the common misconception that at a certain point in our lives, humans are no longer interested in sex and intimacy. Read more
Older Couples, New Narratives
Coming Together with Fresh PurposeLongtime couples can still experience new, relationship-testing conflicts. Read more
Our Aging Families
Encouraging New Conversations between Parents and Adult ChildrenA fundamental change has been percolating in how adult children and their aging parents interact. Read more
Debunking Myths About Aging
The Benefits of Therapy for Older AdultsSome older people sink into states of depression, apathy, or agitated irritability, but emotional distress in this population is too often seen as part of an... Read more
The New Grief
Long, Long Day's Journey Into NightThe increasing ability of modern medicine to arrest or slow terminal illness means that never before has death been such an extended process for so many. But... Read more
Creating the Good Divorce
Tools of the TradeThe fundamental goal of a good divorce is simple yet challenging: children must experience their parents as a working partnership that reliably nurtures and... Read more
Suddenly Strangers
Iraq War Vets, PTSD, and the Challenge of RelationshipWith tens of thousands of Iraq War vets with PTSD returning home, therapists increasingly face the challenge of helping them with their troubled marriages. Read more
Should You Tell Your Clients Why You're Canceling?
When to Self-Disclose, Preserving the Therapeutic Alliance, and MoreIf you have to cancel an appointment and your client asks you why, how much should you disclose? Here, four clinicians share how they'd respond. Read more
Practice Tools - July/August 2022
Discover the best therapeutic tools from across the field of psychotherapyDownload this issue's FREE copy of materials that will help you in your practice. Read more
Therapy Card Decks
A Session in the Palm of Your Hand?Are therapy card decks a clinical tool, a branding exercise, or something else entirely? Read more
Managing Your Waitlist
How to Tackle the Ethical DilemmasHow to tackle the ethical dilemmas Read more
It's Still Unfair!
Struggling to Establish Equitable RelationshipsHealthy, equal relationships require compromise, negotiation, and generosity. But when couples don’t have models for mastering these skills, they often... Read more
When Actions Speak Louder than Words
Creating Change Through Therapeutic RitualsWhen our attempts to use logic and reason fail, therapeutic rituals can help clients connect to inner resources for healing. Read more
Embracing a Shared Retirement Vision
Helping Older Couples Make Rewarding ChoicesHelping older couples create a shared vision for their retirement years. Read more
The Playful Therapist
7 Clinicians Share Their Best StrategiesIn this collection, master therapists share how they’ve used humor in ways that both enliven and enrich the work of therapy. Read more
When Humor Hurts
What Lies Beneath a Couple’s JokesThe jokes many couples share reinforce their identity as an “us.” But there can be a dark side to humor in couples, too. Read more
Free Play with Neurodivergent Kids
Insights from DIRFloortimeIs there an alternative to applied behavioral analysis for children on the spectrum? Read more
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