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Article November 30, 2022

Practice 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

Article November 29, 2022

Helping Couples on the Brink

How Validating Ambivalence Can Foster Hope

How can we meet last-chance couples exactly where they are? Read more

Article November 29, 2022

The Postpartum Experience

What Therapists Need to Know

Many 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

Video November 17, 2022

Treating Systemic Trauma in the African American Community

A Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Payne

Join 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

Article October 26, 2022

How Do I Make Therapy Stick?

Creating a Vision, Building Momentum Between Sessions, and 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

Video October 20, 2022

In this Networker Live event, editor in chief Livia Kent talks with author Lynn Lyons, LICSW, about anxiety and families. Read more

Video October 5, 2022

Changing How We Think about Youth Suicide

An Interview with David Jobes

In this Networker Live event, senior editor Chris Lyford speaks with suicidologist Dr. David Jobes about the impact of ideation. Read more

Video September 30, 2022

Therapy for People Living with Dementia

An Interview with Nancy Kriseman

In 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

Article September 16, 2022

From her book 'Body Aware' author Erica Hornthal shares mindful exercises that will help with self-regulation of your emotional thermostat. Read more

Article September 14, 2022

Recognizing Medical Trauma

How Therapists Can Intervene

Despite its pervasiveness, medical trauma often goes unrecognized. Read more

Article September 14, 2022

The Ideation Factor

Changing How We Think about Youth Suicide

Suicidal ideation among teens is overlooked, understudied, and sometimes even willfully ignored. Read more

Article September 14, 2022

The Fear of Exposure Therapy

Reframing Our Approach

Our willingness to face shared existential struggles right alongside our clients can make exposure therapy not only tolerable, but transformative. Read more

Article September 14, 2022

Sex and the Older Couple

Helping Partners Reimagine Desire

Plenty 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

Article September 14, 2022

Older Couples, New Narratives

Coming Together with Fresh Purpose

Longtime couples can still experience new, relationship-testing conflicts. Read more

Article September 14, 2022

Our Aging Families

Encouraging New Conversations between Parents and Adult Children

A fundamental change has been percolating in how adult children and their aging parents interact. Read more

Article September 14, 2022

Debunking Myths About Aging

The Benefits of Therapy for Older Adults

Some 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

Article September 2, 2022

The New Grief

Long, Long Day's Journey Into Night

The 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

Article August 12, 2022

Creating the Good Divorce

Tools of the Trade

The 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

Article August 9, 2022

Suddenly Strangers

Iraq War Vets, PTSD, and the Challenge of Relationship

With 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

Article August 4, 2022

Should You Tell Your Clients Why You're Canceling?

When to Self-Disclose, Preserving the Therapeutic Alliance, and More

If 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

Article July 14, 2022

Practice Tools - July/August 2022

Discover the best therapeutic tools from across the field of psychotherapy

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

Article July 14, 2022

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

Article July 13, 2022

Managing Your Waitlist

How to Tackle the Ethical Dilemmas

How to tackle the ethical dilemmas Read more

Article July 13, 2022

It's Still Unfair!

Struggling to Establish Equitable Relationships

Healthy, equal relationships require compromise, negotiation, and generosity. But when couples don’t have models for mastering these skills, they often... Read more

Article May 22, 2022

When Actions Speak Louder than Words

Creating Change Through Therapeutic Rituals

When our attempts to use logic and reason fail, therapeutic rituals can help clients connect to inner resources for healing. Read more

Article May 22, 2022

Embracing a Shared Retirement Vision

Helping Older Couples Make Rewarding Choices

Helping older couples create a shared vision for their retirement years. Read more

Article May 22, 2022

The Playful Therapist

7 Clinicians Share Their Best Strategies

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

Article May 22, 2022

When Humor Hurts

What Lies Beneath a Couple’s Jokes

The jokes many couples share reinforce their identity as an “us.” But there can be a dark side to humor in couples, too. Read more

Article May 22, 2022

Free Play with Neurodivergent Kids

Insights from DIRFloortime

Is there an alternative to applied behavioral analysis for children on the spectrum? Read more

Article May 22, 2022

Taking Play Therapy Seriously

The Surprising Journey to Widespread Acceptance

Many 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

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