Interviews & Profiles

Q&As with therapy innovators
Article March 7, 2025

Is Therapy Slipping into Pseudoscience?

Recognizing the Warning Signs

Are we doing enough as clinicians—and as a field—to ensure we’re using truly science-based treatments? Read more

Article January 10, 2025

The Beauty of Longing and Melancholy

Susan Cain Celebrates the Sensitive Client

"Bittersweet" invites us to better understand and celebrate the wistful, sensitive people in our lives—and in our therapy practices. Read more

Article January 10, 2025

The Spiritual Therapist

Healing and the Secular Priesthood

Most therapists don’t shy away from discussing charged topics like sex and drugs. But religion and spirituality? That’s a different story—one that a... Read more

Article January 10, 2025

God, Grief and Therapy

The Quest for Meaning after Loss

Renowned grief expert David Kessler shares what can grief work teach us about the role of religious beliefs in therapy. Read more

Article January 10, 2025

Taking the Blindfold off Couples Therapy

A Tool for Cultivating Emergent Love

How might a panoramic view of a relationship at the start of couples therapy change what clinicians focus on? Read more

Article November 19, 2024

The Funny Therapist

Dismantling Stigma, One Joke at a Time

What do therapy and comedy have in common? Therapist and comedian David Granirer has spent over two decades helping aspiring stand-up comics—many in... Read more

Article November 6, 2024

Beliefs and Misbeliefs

Countering the Illusion of Explanatory Depth

Understanding what's at the root of dangerous misbeliefs like conspiracy theories is the key to countering them. Read more

Article September 10, 2024

The Video Game Therapist

A Creative Approach to the Male Friendship Crisis

Making friends isn’t easy. But amid unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and trauma, and in the middle of what the Department of Health and Human... Read more

Article August 28, 2024

The Hidden Trauma of Childhood Neglect

What to Make of Too Much of Nothing

The way neglect can shape a child’s brain is often misunderstood. Read more

Article August 28, 2024

Personal Boundaries vs. Environmental Concerns

An Interview with Nedra Glover Tawwab: When Differing Values Create Interpersonal Conflicts

Do interpersonal conflicts about environmental choices require a unique approach to boundary setting? Read more

Article August 28, 2024

A Global Case of Mistaken Identity

An Interview with Dan Siegel: Can Expanding Our Sense of Self Save Our World?

The way we think about connection and relationships can play a pivotal role in reverse-engineering the climate crisis— and therapists need to help. Read more

Article June 28, 2024

Vienna Pharaon on Family-of-Origin Work

The Importance of Looking back to Move Forward

With so many newer approaches focusing on here-and-now experiences, are we forgetting about psychotherapy’s foundation of exploring childhood wounds? Read more

Article June 28, 2024

Sue Johnson changed the field, creating a ripple effect of healing that continues to transform countless relationships. In a mosaic of anecdotes drawn from the... Read more

Video May 28, 2024

Tammy Nelson Discusses Couple and Ketamine

A New Way to Enrich Relationships

Watch our interview with relationship expert Tammy Nelson on how ketamine is supercharging couples work. Read more

Video May 3, 2024

IFS Therapy and The Inner Critic

A Conversation with Carmen Jimenez-Pride

Alicia Muñoz and Carmen Jimenez-Pride, LCSW, explore what it means to develop a healthier, friendlier relationship with our parts. Read more

Article May 1, 2024

Do You Need Psychedelics to Access an Altered State?

How to Move Clients Out of Ordinary Survival Mode

Psychedelics can show clients an alternative to their suffering—but so can many softer, gentler, more gradual approaches clinicians have been perfecting... Read more

Article May 1, 2024

Prentis Hemphill: Personal Healing Meets Social Change

How Somatic Therapy Can Create a Just World

Prentis Hemphill believes justice begins with nurturing authentic, body-based feelings, so people can embody their values and spread them throughout families... Read more

Video April 23, 2024

So You Want to Be Your Client's Friend

Two Therapists Discuss a Clinical Taboo

Join the conversation between two therapists as they discuss the longing for friendship in the therapy room. Read more

Video March 13, 2024

Navigating the Male Friendship Recession

A Conversation with Mark Greene

Watch this interview with Mark Greene about why male friendships seem so difficult for men to get and how therapists can help. Read more

Article March 1, 2024

What Story Does Your Voice Tell?

Insights from a Speech Coach

When we can explore our relationship to our own voice, we can harness one of the most direct paths to authenticity and connection. Read more

Video February 15, 2024

Using AI to Be Better Therapists

A Conversation with Heather Hessel

Will people really turn to a human if a “humanly enough” chatbot is available? What if human-to-human therapy becomes accessible only to a privileged few? Read more

Video February 8, 2024

A New Take on Trauma with Frank Anderson

How the Psychotherapist is Making Healing Accessible

Learn more about leading trauma expert Frank Anderson and how he's taking his insight and expertise to new places. Read more

Video February 8, 2024

AI in Therapy

A Conversation with Matthias Barker

What happens when AI enters the therapy room? Therapist influencer Matthias Barker chats with Networker editor in chief Livia Kent. Read more

Video February 6, 2024

Hustle Culture, Malaise, and Mental Health

A Conversation with Erica Turner

Catch the replay of our discussion about why your clients may be struggling with disillusionment in their professional lives. Read more

Article January 3, 2024

Existentialism for a New Era

The Millennial Therapist on Self-Creation

Sara Kuburic, the Millennial Therapist, invites new clients to take a deep look at age-old existential concerns. Read more

Article January 3, 2024

Organizational Management at Home

An Interview with Eve Rodsky on Workplace Tools for Couples

The business world has well-honed tools for making sure employees feel valued and fulfilled. Can they be used to solve a core issue that brings many couples to... Read more

Video December 15, 2023

Supporting Our Dreams as Therapists

A Conversation with Shadeen Francis and Alexandra Solomon

Watch Shadeen Francis and Alexandra Solomon discuss how clinicians can work together to achieve their professional development goals. Read more

Video November 20, 2023

Research shows that the bigger driver of suicide amongst veterans isn’t PTSD, but moral injury. Understanding what moral injury is and how it’s distinct... Read more

Article November 3, 2023

Babette Rothschild on What’s Missing in Trauma Work

Choosing the Tools that Fit Your Client

Author Babette Rothschild reminds us that humans have recovered from trauma for thousands of years without our favorite therapy approaches. Read more

Video October 9, 2023

Watch expert, Dr. Jill Stoddard, to discuss this extreme version of self-doubt with Director of Psychotherapy Networker, Zach Taylor. Here, she separates fact... Read more

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