In The Therapy Room

Sometimes a client's memory may be a red herring that keeps us from focusing on what’s really important: what’s happening in the here and now. Read more

Two renowned experts show you how they’d work with the same client in Psychotherapy Networker’s version of The Gloria Tapes. Read more

By making sense of one another’s temperamental styles through an Enneagram lens, therapists can help partners understand their differences in a new way. Read more

Many women struggle with orgasm in heterosexual relationships. Here are seven strategies therapists can use to empower female clients to experience more... Read more

We all know that there’s no such thing as a “perfect” parent, but even so, many parents hold themselves to unreasonably high standards. Read more

Psychotherapy Networker has won awards not only for its insightful articles, but for its beautiful design. Want to flip through the pages of the latest issue... Read more

It’s no secret: therapists make tricky clients—but there are specific ways we can help therapist-clients feel seen and cared for. Read more

Neuro-affirming intakes need to begin with doing no harm. Read more

What would you do if your active but chronically dysregulated four-year-old stopped speaking, eating, and moving, and everyone you turned to for... Read more

IFS offers a novel way of working with addiction, one that links the inner focus of trauma treatment with the behavioral focus of addiction treatment. Read more

For clients wary of traditional forms of creative expression, using AI art therapeutically offers a novel way to experience a more accessible, visual, and... Read more

How do you approach a first session with a client who's tried all kinds of different therapies and yet continues to struggle? Steven Hayes, the cofounder of... Read more

Here's a five-step process for working with survivors of parental abandonment that helps mitigate self-blame and build trust with the therapist. Read more

Support your BIPOC clients in gaining clarity about the frequency and types of discrimination they’ve experienced as they heal from racial trauma. Read more

Creating a safe space for clients to slowly re-evaluate some core religious teachings they’ve absorbed can be delicate and clinically necessary work. Read more

How do you navigate toxic positivity, and other forms of spiritual bypass, when it’s a block to processing trauma? Read more

Talk therapy can help couples understand their negative patterns cognitively. Adding psychedelics to the work can help them feel it. Read more

High-control religions can disconnect people from themselves—and somatic therapies are the key to helping them heal. Read more

Understanding some of the most common ways anxiety can look in therapy can provide us with guideposts to intervene strategically and support better outcomes... Read more

Few things can spook therapists as much as emails from former clients requesting session notes for a legal proceeding, but handling these requests thoughtfully... Read more

A Sufi therapist invites all clients to find their unique spiritual path through their current struggles. Read more

What if wisdom—the elusive prize so many of us strive for—is actually a practical skill clients can gain in the course of everyday therapy sessions? Read more

Even experienced clinicians can start to feel lost when helping people untangle the psychological effects of coercive control. Read more

Why aren't we doing more to support male survivors of intimate partner violence? Read more

Is teaching partners to join forces against their stress where all couples work should begin? Read more

Just because a relationship isn't physically violent doesn't mean emotional abuse won't turn violent. Read more

Entitlement, the characteristic that best indicates when coercive control is narcissistically driven, makes treating perpetrators challenging—but not... Read more

If a client can't stop talking about the plot twists of a banal TV show, should you try to change the clinical channel? Read more

When opening a relationship, the agreement-making process is far more important than the agreements themselves. Read more

We can use our discomfort with clients to learn how to help them. Read more